Berber Americans, American Berbers, or Amazigh Americans, are
Americans
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of
Berber
Berber or Berbers may refer to:
Ethnic group
* Berbers, an ethnic group native to Northern Africa
* Berber languages, a family of Afro-Asiatic languages
Places
* Berber, Sudan, a town on the Nile
People with the surname
* Ady Berber (1913–196 ...
(or Amazigh) descent. Although a part of the population of the
Maghreb
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(in the North Africa) is of Berber descent, only 1,327 people declared Berber ancestry in the
2000 US census. People of Berber origin in United States have created several associations with goal of maintaining and strengthening their language and culture, such as the
Amazigh Cultural Association in America (ACAA),
The United Amazigh Algerian (UAAA), The Amazigh American Association of
Washington, D.C.
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, and the Boston Amazigh Community.
Notable people
* Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite, Algerian-descent researcher and linguistics scholar, University of California, Berkeley
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Elias Zerhouni, Algerian-born radiologist and medical researcher
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Helene Hagan, American anthropologist and Amazigh activist
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Mohamed Mrabet, Moroccan-born author artist and storyteller of the
Ait Ouriaghel
The Ait Waryaghar or Ait Ouriaghel (Berber languages, Berber: ⴰⵢⵜ ⵡⴰⵔⵢⴰⵖⴻⵔ) is one of the biggest Riffians, Riffian tribes of the Rif region of the north-eastern part of Morocco and one of the most populous. Ait Waryagher mea ...
tribe in the
Rif
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region
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Zaida Ben-Yusuf
Zaida Ben-Yusuf (November 21, 1869 – September 27, 1933) was an American portrait photographer based in New York. She was known for her artistic portraits of wealthy, fashionable, and famous Americans during the turn of the 19th–20th century ...
, English-born Algerian American portrait photographer
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Malika Zarra, Moroccan-born, American/Moroccan singer, composer, and music producer now based in New York City
* Othmane Benafan, NASA scientist and co-inventor
See also
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North Africans in the United States
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Etymology
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Arab Americans
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Algerian Americans
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Moroccan Americans
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Tunisian Americans
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Libyan Americans
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Egyptian Americans
Egyptian Americans () are Americans of partial or full Egyptian ancestry. The 2016 US Census estimated the number of people with Egyptian ancestry at 256,000, most of whom are from Egypt's Christian Orthodox Coptic minority. Egyptian Americans ...
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Canarian Americans
References
North African diaspora in the United States
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