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September 17, 1993. I grab my camcorder and set off with two young male college students, who have arranged for me to videotape the performance of a children’s chorus called Tilelli, a neologism meaning “Freedom.” The chorus was the creation of a newly formed Amazigh (Berber) cultural association, one of over 1,000 that had sprung up in Algeria’s Kabyle Berber region since 1989, when sweeping changes in the nation’s constitution opened the way for the formation of civic organizations without government authorization.    Lire la suite