Bruce Maddy-Weitzman is Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of The Crystallization of the Arab State System, 1945–1954 and the coeditor of The Maghrib in the New Century: Identity, Religion, and Politics; The Camp David Summit-What Went Wrong?; and Religious Radicalism in the Greater Middle East. He also edited the last seven volumes of the Middle East Contemporary Survey.

• Note on Transcription and TerminologyAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Entering History Chapter One. Origins and Conquests: Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, ArabiaChapter Two. The Colonial EraPart II. Independence, Marginalization, and Berber Reimagining Chapter Three. Morocco and Algeria: State Consolidation and Berber "Otherness"Chapter Four. Algerian Strife, Moroccan Homeopathy, and the Emergence of the Amazigh MovementPart III. Reentering History in the New Millennium Chapter Five. Berber Identity and the International ArenaChapter Six. Mohamed VI's Morocco and the Amazigh MovementChapter Seven. Bouteflika's Algeria and Kabyle AlienationConclusion: Whither the State, Whither the Berbers?NotesSourcesIndex

A rich historical analysis of the origins of Berber identity, the domination of Berbers by successive colonial rules, and the current struggles of Berber movements for recognition by North African states. (The Eurasia Review)

Bruce Maddy-Weitzman is Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of The Crystallization of the Arab State System, 1945–1954 and the coeditor of The Maghrib in the New Century: Identity, Religion, and Politics; The Camp David Summit-What Went Wrong?; and Religious Radicalism in the Greater Middle East. He also edited the last seven volumes of the Middle East Contemporary Survey.

• Note on Transcription and TerminologyAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Entering History Chapter One. Origins and Conquests: Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, ArabiaChapter Two. The Colonial EraPart II. Independence, Marginalization, and Berber Reimagining Chapter Three. Morocco and Algeria: State Consolidation and Berber "Otherness"Chapter Four. Algerian Strife, Moroccan Homeopathy, and the Emergence of the Amazigh MovementPart III. Reentering History in the New Millennium Chapter Five. Berber Identity and the International ArenaChapter Six. Mohamed VI's Morocco and the Amazigh MovementChapter Seven. Bouteflika's Algeria and Kabyle AlienationConclusion: Whither the State, Whither the Berbers?NotesSourcesIndex

A rich historical analysis of the origins of Berber identity, the domination of Berbers by successive colonial rules, and the current struggles of Berber movements for recognition by North African states. (The Eurasia Review)

Bruce Maddy-Weitzman is Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of The Crystallization of the Arab State System, 1945–1954 and the coeditor of The Maghrib in the New Century: Identity, Religion, and Politics; The Camp David Summit-What Went Wrong?; and Religious Radicalism in the Greater Middle East. He also edited the last seven volumes of the Middle East Contemporary Survey.

• Note on Transcription and TerminologyAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Entering History Chapter One. Origins and Conquests: Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, ArabiaChapter Two. The Colonial EraPart II. Independence, Marginalization, and Berber Reimagining Chapter Three. Morocco and Algeria: State Consolidation and Berber "Otherness"Chapter Four. Algerian Strife, Moroccan Homeopathy, and the Emergence of the Amazigh MovementPart III. Reentering History in the New Millennium Chapter Five. Berber Identity and the International ArenaChapter Six. Mohamed VI's Morocco and the Amazigh MovementChapter Seven. Bouteflika's Algeria and Kabyle AlienationConclusion: Whither the State, Whither the Berbers?NotesSourcesIndex

A rich historical analysis of the origins of Berber identity, the domination of Berbers by successive colonial rules, and the current struggles of Berber movements for recognition by North African states. (The Eurasia Review)