Kateb Yacine
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Kateb Yacine was an Algerian writer notable for his novels and plays, both in French and Algerian Arabic, and his advocacy of the Berber cause.
Kateb Yacine Nedjma authograph
The Kateb family, with Yacine sitting in the front between his two sisters
Poster for a Kateb Yacine Play in Algiers, by M'hamed Issiakhem
Chaoui people
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The Chaoui people or Shawiya are a Berber ethnic group native to the Aurès region in northeastern Algeria.
Kateb Yacine
…to hearing his teachers calling out names with the last name first that he adopted Kateb Yacine as a pen name. He was born into a scholarly maraboutic Chaoui Berber family from the modern Sedrata, in wilaya of Souk Ahras (in the Aurès region). His maternal grandfather was the 'bach adel', or deputy judge of…
Chaoui horserider
Bendir with snares.
Chaoui jewelry, Museum of Man, Paris, during an exhibition Germaine Tillion.
Chaoui bread.