The Berber world

{{comments_count}} Aït Ben Haddou, Aït Atta, Aït Zineb, Aït Bouguemez… On maps of Morocco, these three letters appear again and again, at the beginning of the name of a village, a tribe, a valley or a territory. We see them so often that we almost stop reading them. Yet this small Amazigh word tells, by itself, something essential: a way of belonging to a group, of connecting oneself to an origin and of inhabiting a territory. The children of… The …