Getting Ready (Ana Mashi Muzhjuda!)
Lately, I’ve been (sort of) studying to get a head start on my first MSA class at Ohio State. I’m ok with the alphabet (thanks to my excellent teacher at the CCCL, Samir Azzibou), but this book is showing me all kinds of new things - like what happens to ت when it’s in front of ج. Crazy things, let me tell you, it’s like T jumped on J and decided to do a little samba.
I also applied for a student membership to the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS). It makes me feel terribly official, but I’m afraid the resident Berber is not too impressed. “Why do you want to study about Morocco?” You know what I say? “Libitibitou!”
January 8th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
I’m not an Arab, not even a berber, i’am an Africa American this is the same type of oppression that has taken place and still takes place in the USA, south America and the Carribean. When the Arabs invaded Eygpt along with the Europeans, they tried to rewrite the histroy by destorying images of African Kings, and pushing the nubians on to a type of island in the south. (Elephante Island) Dafur is a morden day exsample of how to remove those who where there before you. The slave trade of the 17century where Africans were not alowed to speak their languge or read or right, under pain of death. I.ev been to Morocco and the Amazigh people are no different than any other native people, we should come together to fight for our culture and heritage
January 8th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
I’m not an Arab, not even a berber, i’am an Africa American this is the same type of oppression that has taken place and still takes place in the USA, south America and the Carribean. When the Arabs invaded Eygpt along with the Europeans, they tried to rewrite the histroy by destorying images of African Kings, and pushing the nubians on to a type of island in the south. (Elephante Island) Dafur is a morden day exsample of how to remove those who where there before you. The slave trade of the 17century where Africans were not alowed to speak their languge or read or right, under pain of death. I.ev been to Morocco and the Amazigh people are no different than any other native people, we should come together to fight for our culture and heritage.