Tiwizi-USA has just launched a Kabyle language application in collaboration with 7000 languages www.7000.org. You may read about this application and in general about the Kabyle language in the newly added menu Learn Taqbaylit - Lmed Taqbaylit. When you click on "Learn now", you will be taken directly to the Transparent Language website where you can create your account and start learning. You can use the application on your computer, tablet or phone. To use the application on your phone or tablet, you need to download the Transparent Language application from the Apple Store or Google Play. Prior to doing so, please create an account from your computer first. Tiwizi thanks Kayleigh Jeannette of 7000 Languages, Zora Meddahi, Dr. Ramdane Touati, Dr. Hsen Larbi and Dr. Akli Kebaili for making this happen. Tiwizi is indebted to all of its members for their support all along this project. Please contact us with any comments or suggestions and let us know what you think of this application. Happy Learning!
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Please, hit play or click on thumbnail to read the annoucement in English or French. For more information, please visit our "Lmed Taqbaylit" page. Prière d'appuyer sur "Play" ou cliquer sur l'onglet, pour lire l'annoce en français ou en Anglais. Pour plus d'information, visitez notre page "Lmed Taqbaylit" Attan tettwaɛerḍem ar temlilit i d-hegga tiddukla wis-3 deg Duǧamber ɣer 3 n tmeddit di Northeast Philadelphia Adult Center. Ad yili wesqerdec akked umyaru Mas Karim Akouche ɣef wungal-is aneggaru i wumi isemma "La musique dereglée du monde". Anekcum s tukci i tiddukla.
Join us on Dec. 3, at 3PM, at the Northeast Philadelphia Adult Center for a Discussion with Karim Akouche about his new novel "La musique dereglée du monde". Entance with a small donation to our association. Please join us! MAK-North America (Philadelphia Section) & TIWIZI-USA Present, in observance of the 24th anniversary of the Death of Lounes Matoub: A conference titled "La kabylie et la science" (Kabylia and Science) by Dr. Madjid Boutemeur & the US Premiere of “Matoub Lounes, Once Upon A Voice in Kabylia” a documentary film about the Kabyle/Amazigh icon Lounes Matoub, by Journalist and writer Aksil Azergui. Date: July 16th, 22022 Time: 4-10 PM Place: The Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center, 700 Cedar Rd, Jenkintown, PA 19046 https://maps.app.goo.gl/VUiTXkoVtThDztXB8 PLEASE JOIN US! At this time of year when we should be celebrating the New Year, we Kabyles and more generally Imaziɣen, instead are moping. I think of those who have been whisked away by the human crushing machine that the regime of Algiers has become. I think of all the mothers, fathers, spouses, children, parents who are going through the ordeal. If I am not speaking of the persecution of the detainees and the horrors of detention that they endure for months, even years, before being released, it is because I do not want to forget these families who suffer in silence. They are scrambling, heartbroken and helpless, to free their children. They do scramble, because the system jails or tries their children in distant cities precisely to make them suffer and prevent any support from civil society. Therefore, if the first injustice is to put a citizen or an activist in prison for having exercised their free speech, the other injustice is to harshly punish this society, to muzzle it and condemn it to live in misery. Arbitrary justice, absurd sentences are the lot of many families. Torturing a society in this way will leave it with scars which will take a very long time to heal or which may not heal at all. As you can see, they are not only destroying the activist, but a whole society. Those among us for whom the memory of the roundups and torture practiced by the French army is still vivid, must say to themselves that this country is doomed. Colonial violence and that of the war against the colonists left an indelible mark on this country. But this violence which blossomed on the still warm dead bodies of our murdered heroes (Abane, Khider, Krim, Boudiaf, etc.), is an abominable violence. Since our birth, Algeria has only regressed, sacrificed its children, handicapped them and confiscated their future forever. The regression continues to such an extent that one wonders when will we reach the bottom of this pit of misery, violence and absurdity that reign supreme? It is shameful even to call them “detainees”, because elsewhere they put criminals in prison. Elsewhere, there is something called presumption of innocence. Elsewhere, expression is encouraged, to foster creativity and improve everyday life. Elsewhere, there are complaints that people are not getting involved enough. But, above all, they don’t throw someone in jail for thinking. It is never a crime to think, even about murder. Elsewhere, civic action is encouraged because it fills the gaps and complements government actions. A society that is involved in building its future is a healthy society. In Algeria, people get arrested if they organize a literary café or nurture the young. They get arrested for writing or criticizing, or suggesting solutions. If the diaspora sends surgical masks to a hospital in Kabylia, they refuse them by order of the gendarmerie. Oxygen concentrators are stored at customs because there are people out there to decide where to send them. Yes they know how to decide everything, but there is nothing they can do right! They refuse Canadairs to put out the fires, and instead let the fires ravage everything. In Algeria, it is forbidden to move. Today everyone is keeping a low profile for fear of ending up in jail. The silence is total, so is oppression! Elsewhere, there is an independent judiciary that refuses the regime’s zealous minions and corrupt opportunists to abuse their power. Elsewhere, it is not a crime to express one’s opinion and pretrial detention is not handed left and right. Not in Algeria. In Algeria, prosecutors and judges themselves are zealous stooges. Those who are exceptions will forgive me for this. They are no longer at their posts, because the regime is vigilant. Thus, the black robes of judges are not indicative of competence in the service of justice, but rather of enslavement to the system. Black robes or black hoods, in Algeria, it’s the same thing! In Algeria, we do not put criminals in prison, it is the criminals who put innocent people in prison. And not just any innocent people. irreproachable people, people who think and who have the courage to pull their society towards a better future. Djaouts, Harouns, Matoubs and rebels who should be thanked for being at the forefront of the struggles for democracy and freedom. During this Yennayer, which should normally be the holiday of hope, of renewal, my Kabylia is hurting. How can I celebrate it when hundreds of my innocent brothers spend it in cold cells? I am hurting at my Kabylia, which has become the scape goat of the Arab-Islamist regime of Algiers. My Kabylia is pushed a little more towards its death every day. They programmed all the imaginable deaths for it: they murder its young people, they push it into exodus, they starve it, they assimilate it, they Arabize it and re-Islamize it. They abandon it during covid-19, they deny it oxygen, burn it, then throw its cream of the crop in prison. They assault it repeatedly, and set up abominable scenarios for it. They point to it for popular vindictiveness. In Algeria, being Kabyle is a flaw. To declare oneself to be Kabyle, to have the Kabyle accent lands you in jail. In short, in Algeria, Kabylia is being killed, and the the silence surrounding its death is deafening. Mastan At uAamran Note: Below a youtube video of the new song by Djamal Alilat during an interview at TQ5 TV. Presse Release
Philadelphia July 11, 2021 Their names are Bouaziz Ait-Chebib, Hamou Boumedine, Hocine Azem, Boussad Becha, Belaid Amar-Khodja, and Nordine Ait-Hamouda. They have been summoned by the local Gendarmerie (military police) without any explanation, and upon their arrival, were hand-cuffed and immediately placed in custody. Nordine Ait-Hamouda was picked up as he was leaving the venue where he had just given a conference. Before them, a slew of other Kabyle and Hirak activists were arrested. They were charged with “terrorism”, “threat against national unity”, “threat against the integrity of the national territory” and thrown in jail. This was all done by virtue of the articles 79 and 87 bis of the penal code. Article 87 bis was introduced via a presidential ordinance and passed into law on June 10, 2021. Yes, Algeria is a country where a president can change the law to suit his goals. This article 87 bis broadened the definition of terrorism and established a list of terrorist entities (organizations, individuals). In May, before even the publication of the amendement, the High National Security Council classified the MAK (Movement of the self-determination of Kabylia) and Rachad (an Islamist Movement) as terrorist organizations. Introduced to crush any opposition to the regime, it is specifically intended to outlaw any demands of emancipation from the Kabyle people. This same article targets any speech that is deemed a national security threat or a threat to the "integrity of the national territory" of Algeria. Thus, the freedom of speech guaranteed by the Constitution is shoved aside and numerous law-abiding citizens, outstanding, peaceful members of society now belong in jail. The efforts of this new administration are obviously to crush any opposing voices (mainly from Kabylia) but they are also preventative as they are intended to instill fear in the population to stymy any attempts at revolting. Tiwizi is shocked by the new escalation in the regime’s crackdown and the suppression of freedoms, even those guaranteed by the Algerian constitution and international treaties Algeria is party to. Tiwizi stands with those who were arrested and their families and pledges to do all it can to help the victims and condemns these violent attacks against human rights. Tiwizi calls on the Algerian judges to assert their independence and guarantee a fair trial. It also calls on all human rights organizations and supporters of human rights in the World to speak against Algeria’s treatment of Kabyle activists and citizens. Tiwizi is a non profit organization established in Pennsylvania for charitable, educational and human rights purposes. It promotes friendship between the Kabyle and American people. The Board of Directors Philadelphia, June 7, 2021
Tiwizi USA strongly denounces the ongoing Algerian Government’s systematic repression and oppression of the Kabyle people and the region of Kabylia. Kabylia has lived under the Algerian government’s tyranny for a long time, but recently this hostile attitude has intensified. The Algerian authorities are acting like a colonial power in this region. In its quest to crush the Hirak Movement and any opponents, the authorities cracked down on demonstrators, journalists and activists from all sides to ensure the upcoming scham elections ensure them the necessary democratic facade to continue business as usual. In Kabylia, they targetted largely the members of the MAK (movement for the self-determination of Kabylia). More recently, the Algerian government went as far as to label this peaceful and democratic movement as a terrorist organization in order to incite violence and scape-goat this rebelious region. Stigmitization of Kabylia has been historical, but more recently threats and calls for violence against it escalated. For instance Said Bensdira, an Islamic extremist residing in England, has called on his YouTube channel for the killing of kabyles using chemicals. In the last few weeks, close to two dozens Kabyles, members of the MAK have been imprisoned without any warrants. At times they were snatched from the streets or abducted from their homes without anyone knowing. Their families are subjected to threats and humiliation. Held without bail, their trials are often delayed on purpose to punish them and then sentence them to time served, because the authorities have nothing against them. Many of them complained of mistreatments and torture during their custody. As Kabyle-Americans, we call on the Algerian authorities to release all journalists and activists of both the Hirak and the MAK jailed for speaking their minds, gathering or demonstrating peacefully for their rights and dignity. We say to the authorties that MAK is a peaceful organization and so far violence has come only from this governement. The memories of Kabylia’s Black Spring 2001 are still vivid, and incitement to violence to justify the use of force, will lead to very dangerous consequences for the people of Kabylia and Algeria as a whole. We call on Human Rights organizations, and all people who value liberty and justice to stand for the rights of the Kabyle people and all of those fighting for democracy and freedom, and call on Algeria to change course and release all prisoners and abide by its own constitution. We stand with those who fight for freedom and against tyranny. We stand with the MAK movement and our Kabyle brothers and sisters and assure them of our indefectible solidarity. Tiwizi USA is a non profit organization based in Pennsylvania. Its goals are to help the Kabyle people, defend their human rights and encourage friendship with the American people. The Board of Directors
Commemoration of the Amazigh Spring - April 24 at 3 PM EDT Via ZoomTiddukla Tiwizi thegga-d yiwet n temlilit akken a d-tesmekti tifsutin n 80, d 2001. Ahil: - Asmekti n wid yeɣlin di tefsut taberkant - Sɣur Mastan At uAmran - Asarag "Amek i tezmer ad tserreh tira s teqvaylit" sɣur Karim Achab - Taɣuri n Isefra: Karima Battou. Timlilit ad tili ass n 24 seg Yebril ɣef 3 n tmeddit (tasaatt n usammar n Marikan ugafa) s ttawil n zoom. Tansa n zoom akked Youtube.Facebook live ad awen-ten-id-nernu d umatu. Tiwizi-USA is organizing the commemoration of the springs of 1980 and 2001 with the following program: - Remembering the victims of the Black spring (2001) by Mastan At uAmran - Popularization of Kabyle writing or how to get out of the impasse, by Karim Achab - Poetry reading by Karima Battou. The meeting will be held via zoom April 24, 2021 at 3 PM (EDT). Zoom and or Youtube/Facebook live link to be added shortly |
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