Ramdane Haïfi (1948 – February 24, 2007), also known as Ramdane Imazighen and Dda Ramdane, was an Algerian-French Berber nationalist activist. He was born in Ifnayen,

Larbaâ Nath Irathen Larbaâ Nath Irathen ( Kabyle: Larebɛa n at Yiraten, or in Tifinagh, Arabic: الأربعاء ناث اراتين) is a town in Tizi Ouzou Province, in the central part of northern Algeria. It was formerly known as Fort National. The populatio ...

, and was instrumental in the establishment of the

Berber Academy Académie Berbère d'Échange et de Recherches Culturels, usually shortened to Académie Berbère or the Berber Academy was a Paris-based Kabyle cultural association formed in 1966 and officially authorized in March 1967 with the objective of raisi ...

alongside

Mohammed Arav Bessaoud Mohand Arav Bessaoud (24 December 1924 in Taguemount El Djedid, Algeria – 1 January 2002 in Newport) was a Kabyle Algerian writer and activist. He was described as the spiritual father of Berberism ("Dda Moh"), and a strong supporter of the A ...

. He later became the owner of the Ighuraf Imazighen, a Berber hotel-restaurant in eastern Paris, and was assassinated in 2007 by a tenant who didn't pay his rent.

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1948 births 2007 deaths Berber activists French people of Kabyle descent Kabyle people People from Larbaâ Nath Irathen {{Algeria-bio-stub