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Jamal Benhamou
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This humble channel discusses various topics from the perspective of an Amazigh American.
The goal is to educate people about the Amazigh people, culture, and history.
Because of the topic of this channel, my videos make me sound very serious, but I will try to lighten the mood and hopefully, I can put some fun stuff about my travels in Morocco.
If you like the content, don't forget to subscribe.
The goal is to educate people about the Amazigh people, culture, and history.
Because of the topic of this channel, my videos make me sound very serious, but I will try to lighten the mood and hopefully, I can put some fun stuff about my travels in Morocco.
If you like the content, don't forget to subscribe.
Pensacola is Changing...
I made this video to highlight the changes that have happened in Pensacola over the years. Pensacola is slowly becoming a walkable city.
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Using Chat GPT To Build A Simple Amazigh Program.
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In this video I am creating a program that converts Amazigh script(Tifinagh) into Latin alphabets. A lot of the Amazigh people don't know how to read and write their native language because of the aftermath of Arabization policies. This program helps read what is written in Tifinagh.
Continue Your Education in the US(In Tamazight)
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Kristie suggested to do a video in Tamazight for anyone interested to come and study in the US. Enjoy. If you like this idea let me know so I can do more
Amazigh Achievements....Are not Arab
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This video discusses the problem of Arab media always attributing North African Achievements to Arabs. The Amazigh people constantly complain about the fact that the Arab media keeps taking credit for North African accomplishments which further marginalizes the Amazigh people.
Amazigh or Berbers?
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This video discusses the accusations Pan-Arabists make against the Amazigh people.
The Tension Between Morocco and Algeria and its Impact on the Amazigh People.
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The conflict between Morocco and Algeria has been ongoing for many years, in this video we will discuss this issue from a societal perspective and examine the impact it has had on the Amazigh people. The Amazigh people from both sides have long been marginalized and discriminated against, what role does the Amazigh identity play in the conflict? and what is the solution?
Moroccan Demographics in Simple Terms.
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This Animation explains who Moroccans are.
The Psychology Behind Arab Self Identification in Morocco.
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This short video explains why some Moroccans are Adamant that they are Arab. The video doesn't explain all the reasons but it touches upon some of the main reasons some abandon their heritage.
The Amazigh People....Documentary
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The first Documentary in English about the Amazigh people as they see themselves. There are many videos about the Amazigh people but they usually project their stereotypes and opinions about the Amazigh people which makes their stories a bit in accurate. Enjoy
Moroccan Derija: A Case of Code Switching, Stratum, Relexification, Lexical Borrowing and Much more
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In this video I explain why Mroccan Derija can not and should not be considered a variety of Arabic.
The Amazigh Rider and His Husky
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Riding through the park with my husky. We can all take a break from controversial topics.
Insight Into Moroccan Derija: Can Derija Be Considered Arabic ?
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In this video I am explaining why From a linguistic perspective Derija can not be considered Arabic. This video only scratches the surface of Moroccan Derija and shows some of the components that make it what it is
Amazigh Moors Vs Afrocentrists: A Short Case Study Video
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Amazigh Moors Vs Afrocentrists: A Short Case Study Video
The Rif Region And The Rest Of Imazighen
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The Rif Region And The Rest Of Imazighen
Why do some Moroccans claim to be Arabs? علاش بعض المغاربة كيدَّعو أنهم عرب?
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Why do some Moroccans claim to be Arabs? علاش بعض المغاربة كيدَّعو أنهم عرب?
Inline Skating Adventure with DJI Mavic Pro
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Inline Skating Adventure with DJI Mavic Pro
Azul felak agmathnagh Jamal and thanks for doing what you do!” I have a question. Can you please tell me where we can I find your video with this title : Are the Amazigh a French invention? It's not available anymore on your channel.
Hello and thanks for watching. I made the video private. I will make it public right away.
@@jamalbenhamou Tanmirt atas atas!
Ayuz nk Atagmatino
Libanon is located in Arab region accept it. In contrast to Morocco which is locaties in North Africa
who said anything about Lebanon? what are you talking about? Most of Lebanese and Syrians are of Armenian, Turkic and slavic origins....you really want to compare Lebanese phenotype to Qatari or Gulf countries? Arabs are a very small Minority, there is nothing such as Arab region, the gulf countries are the only places where Arabs really exist and even those places have a lot of people who were ethnically Persians
So darija is literarily a colonial language with colonial words it seems that north Africans have identity crisis the sad part is that they don't even speak berber
North Africans Speak Berber( Tamazight) there is an estimated number of at least 25 Million speakers. I would not say Derija is a colonial language, it is the evolution of mixing up loan words from different languages using an Amazigh sentence structure. It would have been colonial if someone has brought it but it developed cuz of the mix of other languages over the years.
Great 🥰
azul awma.. si arif
Very well said.
Facts. First Amazigh and first N. Africa! This is normal dude achievements by Africans are always credited to other peoples. I am sick of it!
Bro everyone comments is confusing.😅 Some are islamophobes then turns out to be muslims. Some are muslims but then turns out to be islamphobes. WTF?
I’m amazigh from zwara,Libya and I don’t mind being called Arab or Amazghi. Plus point we are born Muslim and speak both languages❤❤❤
you are born Muslim.....stop thinking everyone was, or are you going to exclude those who are not Muslim? typical thinkng
true. Arabization is a crime.
Moroccan people is Amazigh and african not arabic 🇲🇦🫱🏻🫲🏼❤️♓️
Not all
Amazigh Girls, are the cheapest and honourless Girls on Earth!!! They dont have Identity or Culture!
BLACK AFRICAN CLAIM EVERYTHING TO BE FROM BLACK AFRICAN. PURE RACIST
Good ❤
Azul fellak a tagmat 🎉 perfect
Salam I am a student at Rollins researching the Amazigh people and I have thankfully stumbled upon your page.
Stop this , we are one ummah , I am an Afghan and I felt proud of Morocco, as if I won , we as Muslims need to remove tribalism from our minds and unite as one , this is just as the prophet (pbuh) said , that we will number many but be weak
you need to stop..you have no idea what you are talking about, your Ummah didn't bring any peace to your country.
@@jamalbenhamouyou always western propaganda
We are not one ummah, muslims whiped out amazigh culture since the day they invaded north africa, before that we where christian.
Tanmirt nk ayos na3mi , mamnk atgit
Akihfd rebbi
ⵜⴰⵏⵎⵉⵔⵜ🫡❤️
Great video.👌🏼 Thank you for sharing.🌹
Good to see you here Laila, thanks for watching
Pan Africanism and pro-black American nationalists especially the Nation of Islam & “Moorish” Americans is just as equally to blame for trying to erase the Amazigh identity. Their ideology is essentially just a Niger Congo supremacist movement. For some reason, they seem to think they're the only kind of African people that exist. They also all seem to have a special hatred for HOA people (especially Somalis) for some reason ……..😒😒 Black Panther was supposed to be “Pan African”, but they didn't represent Cushites, Berbers, or Khoisans at all, just madows (Niger Congo and Nilotic) BBBUUUTTT, black people come in all colors, religions, shapes, and use some archaic hillbilly barbarian law for a hundred years ago to claim some rando nobody minor German noble as black because her great-great-great-great grandmother’s second cousin was a “ Moorish “ princess 👸
We are ❤️❤️❤️❤️🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦 Amazigh ♓️
North African face features are so dissimilar from Middle East people's face. I myself DNA is 95 % moroccan.. the rest is from neighbouring areas
Amazigh 💪💪💪💪💪💪 thank you for speaking up
thank you
Do you know what's really fascinating? That both Arabs, moors and romans/Greek discredited the barbars/berbers. Whether they lived in Amsterdam and Copenhagen and weren't jewish/christian like my ancestors or whether they lived in north Africa and weren't Muslim. This discrimination against the ancient lineages happens everywhere. Same with Hindus, Mongolians, Chinese. All ancient people's.
Beautiful people
And at the same time your history is being blackwashed by saying africa. The moors etc. getting blackwashed.
Moroccans are Africans, nothing wrong with saying African. The Moors were North African, The only issue I have is the afrocentrists who think there were moors.
to the intolerant, fundamentalist, bigot people who think they are better Muslims than the rest of everyone else, f..off my channel you hypocrites. Your understanding of Islam is the reason I myself would vote for any laws to keep you away in your lands where you belong. You have deactivated your brains and blindly followed your scholars whom you trust in so much as if they themselves were god.
You're such a big liar
Amen🙏🏻 sadly some morroccans got arabized... love amazigh from switzerland
Amazigh *MUSLIM* achievemnt, the morocan players prostrated to ALLAH after scoring goals, That triggers you right?
Islam is a universal religion from Allah its not a arab ideology. Arab ideologies are ignorance and other form of stupidities
The problem with people like you is you think you are a true believer and judge everyone else. So if I tell you that My wife who is Irish became a Muslim in 2015 you are suddenly gonna change your view of me right? haha, that's the problem you think you are self righteous. you think you understand Islam better than others. Let me educate you, Many of these people who prostate, and talk in a religious manner mostly do it out of culture not because they wake up for fajr and fast Monday and Thursday lol. They are Amazigh, wether they are Muslims or not that's their business, but religious fundamentalists like you even if they are Amazigh are dangerous to society because they judge others based on their faith when you probably spend most of your day doing the unthinkable and you come here to preach as if you are guided....get lost
Allah is the creator of the universe not a Arab.
Wtf is wrong with you? I'm berber and I'm proudly muslim. You are a traitor.
As long as we don't write and spread knowledge in our native languages (Amazigh and Darija), we will always be affiliated with some other nation, be it Middle Eastern Arabs, France, the Roman Empire, etc. Historically, our biggest mistake was to produce so much in other peoples' languages, so they take all the credit for our work.
Totally agree
Most of the blame falls on the Imazighen (Berbers) themselves. It seems they are ashamed of their ethnicity and won't acknowledge publicly they are Amazigh. Ziyech for example never corrected the media labeling him as an Arab. And don't get me started with the Arabised Imazighen who are without any doubt a bunch of psychopaths with an identity disorder.
Great and an important video, we will never bow down or let the Arabs take what belongs to the Amazigh people. Keep doing what you are doing Jamal we need more people like you. ❤
Long live the Amazigh
Please don’t stop making videos I just found your channel and want to learn about your people this is so helpful
thanks for the support, don't forget to subscribe :)
if the amazigh people want any legitimate claim to africa they need to distance themselves from the arabs. 😂😂😂😂 arabs are not indigenous to africa
True, am an amazigh from Algeria , always other countries they think we are Arabs , we are not
We are Arab countries as also Amazigh country. Stop tò this fucking and non sense conflict.
Millions will pay for this.
thank you
Pan Arabist are a pathetic bunch
i'm very glad to see u back! but if u need it, take breaks from social media: educating & raising awareness is very important but your mental health must come 1st in order to be able to keep doing it. thank you 4 all your hard wrk 4 the community & also 4 the effort behind the video,the captions, the clarity in the explaination & all the citations of proof & resources!
Thanks for the kind words, I just reactivated my Facebook after a 2 month break.
AYUZZZ AWMA❤️♓️🙏👌
I made a mistake and I said "Ibn Khaldun is also known as Averroes". Ibn Rushd is Averroes. Thank you
We are Amazigh and we are proud.
But there are many Amazighs who are brown and many kinds of colors and looks, some even look white but with African phenotype so how do you explain this? For you, where do the Amazigh come from? If they are
in Morocco Dark Amazigh intermarried with Sub-saharians from Mali, niger, senegal...you know Morocco practiced slavery? I am pretty sure you know about Herratin and Gnawa....they are the remnants of slavery. Also Dark Amazigh exist in Mali and niger...they are called Tuareg. North African Amazigh are original to North Africa, they dont have to be black to be African....please read this carefully before you comment. Have a good day.
@@jamalbenhamou you do realize that many black amazigh exist in Algeria, Libya, Egypt Tunisia, Morocco and etc. It’s funny how you imply that many Moroccans are Arabized culturally when that’s somewhat true as well but I’d argue white Berbers are mainly berberized and a result of admixture with some who’s ancestors came from the Barbary pirate slave trade which enslaved MILLIONS of white people. Also realize that Berbers are believed to originate deeper within the Sahara and I can tell you that I’ve never seen a white, pale skinned Berber in the Sahara so you mean to tell me all along that white Berbers were living in the Sahara but yet now a days with a plethora of Berbers STILL in the Sahara but rarely do you find a white one …🤔. You should look at descriptions of ancient Berbers with some mentioning that the Berbers looked like ancient Egyptians (wooly hair and swarthy) and resembling the “Aethiopians”. If you want to use dna, it’s said that e1b1b which is the Y haplogroup and attributed to North Africans originated in the Horn of Africa which is east Africa today along with e1b1b and e1b1b is actually related to e1b1b and the latter is found In places like Senegal and other part of Africa so you mean to tell me that Berbers are related to this people but yet are white and they came out very dark with different phenotype ? 🤔. Also the gnawa are a minority in Morocco and the haratin were actually southern Moroccans who were from the Berber group but among the original Berbers and not the ones who mixed like in the more northern regions and this is as far as the strongest evidence goes in terms of their identity that I know. You can’t say it’s because of slavery that most Berbers in southern Morocco, Mauritania and other parts of Morocco are black because enslaving people wouldn’t usually replace or cause a huge demographic where it outnumbers the population. Keep in mind there is a lot of black Berbers in other locations of North Africa, you can’t use slavery for that as well. Also I recommend you look into the Berbers of siwa, Egypt and see how it’s a isolated community but yet many of them aren’t white and some are black even.
@@jamalbenhamou also idk if u knew this but a lot of the people in Mali, Niger and Senegal like the Mande,Wolof and Hausa tribes seem to have been descendants of an ancient Berber group.
@@hihello-yv2tt I am not going to read this whole thing...dont have the time to. but it is very simple, I don't believe All Amazigh are white, Amazighfrom Mali or niger are black and they are still Amazigh that's fine, their darker skin has to do with the environment they exist in. My whole point is Most Moroccans are Amazigh wether you like it or not and those who pretend to be Arabs are just arabized, bring me one person who can trace their family to Saudi Arabia? you can't what you will find is someone making such claims and maybe his great great great great great great grandpa was Arab but he melted in the Amazigh DNA. You know that it was mainly soldiers it wasn't families that moved to North Africa, so those invading men or men who were brought up melted in the Amazigh DNA...unless you think that families composed of husbands and wives rode a camel for 6 months in the heat to make it to Morocco which is silly and frankly stupid. take care
@@jamalbenhamou lol environment doesn’t change phenotype, there is a difference between someone who got darker due to sun exposure and someone born with a certain amount of melanin and if a certain ethnic group
But many Moroccans are Arab and a mix of Arab and Berber so you can’t say it’s 100% one sided on only Arab or amazigh
You seriously need to use some simple critical thinking and you can answer this yourself. are you imagining that the few Arabs who came to Morocco for example remained in a bubble isolated and kept intermarrying amongst themselves? the few Arabs that came here melted in the Amazigh majority hundreds of years ago. you will not find any Moroccans who have 100% Middle Eastern DNA, not even 50% not even 20% those claim Arab ancestry end up finding that they only have less than 7% Middle Eastern DNA. please think before you make another comment, if you say again that "many Moroccans are Arab" that means those minority Arabs were isolated and never intermarried with the local Amazigh which impossible and stupid as well. We can not talk about "mixed" either, to say someone is mixed would mean someone who came from Morocco and some one who came from Arabia a generation ago not 900 years ago....simple math.
@@jamalbenhamou lmao, you got to understand that Arabs came in waves of migration and so I agree many of them and/or their descendants mixed with the local population however it doesn’t mean that most Moroccans are mostly amazigh because if we are talking about Mediterranean/European looking Amazighs, notice how the further south you go the Berbers are predominantly darker. Most of the Saharan and Tuareg Berbers are dark skinned and so are many Mauritanian
@@hihello-yv2tt You keep saying mixed, the Arabs that came later melted in the Amazigh majority, the Arabs that came earlier were defeated in many battles and killed. Arabs today in the world are a Minority, are you aware that the Arabs only make up less than 20% of total Muslim population and here you come acting like Arabia was full of Arabs, the number of Arabs was and is still very small even in Arabia today...just go look at the population of Arab countries in the Arabian peninsula, you somehow want to say that they replaced the Amazigh people. I am From the South, I am not brown, I am telling you that the South was a strong hold for slavery, you also have people from Mali, Senegal and Mauritania who are darker and moved to Morocco.I am talking about Morocco only, The Amazigh of Morocco that are darker got intermarried with subsaharan. I know someone who is married to an Amazigh and he is very dark, this guy is from Tata and spoke Tamazight all his life and his parents spoke Tamazight.. and he did a DNSA test he found out that he is 23% from senegal about 10% niger and the rest is Amazigh and that's the case for many, . I come from a very remote village in the Atlas, not one person in that village is dark. You also have people from the North who are white and blue eyed and they 99% Amazigh. done talking about this, have a great day.
@@jamalbenhamou where is your evidence that the south of Morocco was very involved in slave trade ? Also dna tests are not a good way to identify what you are ethnically because North African dna is a group of collected dna over time where a new dna name has been created such as “North African” or “Native American” despite some of these people from different regions and migration patterns. Ive studied dna and dna tests are not what you should use to prove your point. Also if you do want to go through the dna route, It says amazigh people originated in the horn of africa like many other Africans from regions like Senegal , Somalia etc so even that doesn’t help your arguement. I also didnt say Arabs replaced all amazigh and I didn’t say that most North Africans are Arab however there is a significant Arab influence In North Africa culturally and ethnically which shouldn’t be ignored.
I feel you bro
Im your 700th subscriber. Congrats 👍🏼
Thank you
we will never be arabs and we are not.they have to go back to school again and again who was first on this planet
Thanks jamal 🎉❤
If you are maghrebi, and your family has no ties to any tribe do you then identify as Arab?