A Berber girl dressed in traditional attire at a Berber cultural festival in Tripoli. Public displays of Amazigh culture were forbidden under the Gadhafi regime.
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A Berber girl dressed in traditional attire at a Berber cultural festival in Tripoli. Public displays of Amazigh culture were forbidden under the Gadhafi regime.
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Libyan girls walk past a recently opened Amazigh culture center in Jadu, eastern Libya. The script on the wall is Tifinagh, the Berber alphabet.
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Libyan girls walk past a recently opened Amazigh culture center in Jadu, eastern Libya. The script on the wall is Tifinagh, the Berber alphabet.
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A Berber boy, decorated in the image of the Amazigh flag, takes part in a protest outside government offices demanding recognition of Berber language and culture in Libya's new consitution.
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A Berber boy, decorated in the image of the Amazigh flag, takes part in a protest outside government offices demanding recognition of Berber language and culture in Libya's new consitution.
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Berber rebels flash victory signs outside a Gadhafi compound in September 2011. Berbers fought fiercely against Gadhafi's forces during the Libyan revolution, driven by four decades of the suppression of their culture under the old regime.
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Berber rebels flash victory signs outside a Gadhafi compound in September 2011. Berbers fought fiercely against Gadhafi's forces during the Libyan revolution, driven by four decades of the suppression of their culture under the old regime.
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A soldier waves Libyan and Amazigh flags on the frontline of battle against the remnants of the Gadhafi regime in September 2011. The red symbol on the Amazigh flag is the character for "free man," the name by which Berbers to themselves in Tamazight.
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A soldier waves Libyan and Amazigh flags on the frontline of battle against the remnants of the Gadhafi regime in September 2011. The red symbol on the Amazigh flag is the character for "free man," the name by which Berbers to themselves in Tamazight.
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