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	Rock Paper Scissors - Tinariwen, Amassakoul (World Village) - Tinariwen: From Guns to Guitars
		In Mali, the Tamasheks lived in the country’s north: far away from the official eyes that could witness their physical hardships, and far away from the relatively verdant south.
		In 1991, Tamasheks in Mali issued a 21-point declaration that included demands for economic development of their areas, a multi-party democracy, a greater political role for their minority community and amnesty for their fighters.
		By this time, the musicians of Tinariwen, along with many other Tamashek, began to realize that armed struggle was not necessarily justified, and may have even increased the suffering of their people.
	www.rockpaperscissors.biz /index.cfm/fuseaction/current.articles_detail/project_id/177/article_id/2998.cfm (2117 words)

	Guardian \| Sandblasters
		They are Tamashek (or Tuareg), and although they formed in the late 1970s, only in recent years have they played anything like an official concert.
		To mark their Paris debut, there were Tamashek in the audience: men of civic importance from the band's home base of Kidal, a dusty town on the edge of the Sahara.
		With young Tamashek turning to music rather than to guns, Tinariwen are no longer the only group to set up their guitars and amps in the Saharan bush.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4831329-110428,00.html (1442 words)

	Tinariwen: Amassakoul - PopMatters Music Review
		Singing in their native language, Tamashek, this worldly group manages to create the atmosphere of exoticism without having to be obscure in their choice of instruments.
		The name "Tinariwen" translates as "empty places" and they have become known for inventing a new style of music This style has been given the name "Ishuma" which is translated as "unemployed" and refers to their exiled people after the wars in the latter part of the 20th century in their region of Africa.
		The Kel Tamashek people have been given the derogatory Arabic name "Touareg" which means "abandoned by god." They prefer to call themselves Kel Tamashek (or Imochagh, Imajirhen).
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/t/tinariwen-amassakoul.shtml (941 words)

	Rock Paper Scissors - Tartit, Ichichila (Network) - Press Release
		The Kel Tamashek have lived in the vast Sahara and the Sahel for millennia.
		The Kel Tamashek alone have preserved the use of the ancient rifinagh alphabet that was once employed by all the Amazigh peoples.
		The Kel Tamashek were deprived of their traditional economic bases, circumscribed by new frontiers, oppressed and bullied by neighbors to the north and south, and racked by terrible droughts.
	www.rockpaperscissors.biz /index.cfm/fuseaction/current.press_release/project_id/87.cfm (667 words)

	Bangkok Post Friday 16 September 2005 - Camel blues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This was in the late 1980s, when Toure was given the moniker of "African bluesman" by the music press, and he was fed up of it.
		It's their music." He had cause to be upset because, after all, he sang songs from 11 different groups and in a myriad of languages and no-one seemed to ask him about them.
		Tamashek is spoken by the Toureg peoples of Sahara and they are traditionally nomadic, moving with their flocks on camels, and it is this animal, in the form of its rocking, rolling gait, that beats at the heart of Tinariwen's music.
	www.bangkokpost.com /en/160905_Realtime/16Sep2005_real03.php (912 words)

	Global Downloads: Music Censorship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The songs of Tinariwen mourn the passing of the epic golden age of the Saharan tribes, while endeavoring to map out a future for the generations who must survive beyond it and live with the modern world.
		Ghadaffi implied that he would train the Kel Tamashek and provide weapons to fight for their independence from the Malian government, but eventually the stateless rebels slowly realized that Ghadaffi's only intention was to use these fierce fighters in his own wars.
		Ishumar, which means unemployed, refers to a generation of young, enraged Tamashek exiles: people who left their stomping grounds for work after much repression and drought in Mali.
	calabash.typepad.com /world_music_advocate/music_censorship (1293 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Music \| Singer Plant helps Mali musicians
		Plant was so inspired by the number of projects under way to help the Tamashek, or Tuareg, that he has set up his own - the bus, which carries around disabled musicians in Mali's capital, Bamako.
		Many of the Tamashek projects have been set in motion by some of the artists who have performed at the Festival In The Desert.
		The awareness of the outside world for the Tamashek and for their story was propagated on a daily basis, and that was every reason to be committed."
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/3307751.stm (601 words)

	Tinariwen, The Radio Tisdas Sessions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The formation's name means "empty places" in their native Tamashek tongue, a clear reference to the desolation of the group's ancestral lands.
		The Kel Tamashek or Imashagen ("The Free") are better known to the outside world as Tuareg, a derogative Arabic term meaning "the Godforsaken," given to them by the Arab-Muslim conquerors of North Africa.
		They were regarded with great suspicion by the French when they colonized large tracks of western Africa, the Tamashek's fiercely independent spirit being at odds with the Europeans' imperialist project.
	www.rambles.net /tinariwen_tisdas02.html (723 words)

	Tinariwen: The Radio Tisdas Sessions - PopMatters Music Review
		It's not only that little until now has been heard from the musical quarters of the Sahara region (not altogether surprising as the Tamashek, nomads of the Sahara, were increasingly marginalized and excluded from the early nation-building that was taking place all around them in Mali).
		Their music spoke to the Tamashek, appealing for a political awakening of consciousness and became the music of the ishumar, or "unemployed", meaning a whole generation of young, angry Tamashek exiles.
		Tinariwen's style of music is loosely based on traditional Tamashek forms, and incorporates some of the figures of the desert nomads' harsh one-string violin.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/t/tinariwen-radio.shtml (1704 words)

	ear whacks 3-03 Joshua Tree, U2 cover band
		Fadimata Walett Oumar, a Kel Tamashek (or Tuareg) nomad, takes shelter in a refugee camp in Burkina Faso, far from her desert dwelling in Timbuktu.
		When the Kel Tamashek society was divided into the five states of Algeria, Libya, Niger, Mali, and Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) in 1963, the people rebelled against the deprivation of their traditional economic bases and bullying neighbors to the north and south.
		The Kel Tamashek don't have many material goods by Western standards, yet they are willing to share what they have.
	www.chronogram.com /issue/2003/04/backbone/earwhacks (1424 words)

	CNNTraveller - Tribal gathering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		As the Kel Tamashek - 'the people who speak Tamashek' - they were herders of camels and goats, traders between sub-Saharan and North Africa, and raiders of desert settlements and pillagers of travellers.
		It was an opportunity for the Tuareg nation to demonstrate the power and riches of their culture to an international audience, making for an inspired, and revolutionary, public relations exercise to bring the Kel Tamashek to the attention of the outside world.
		'It's been unforgettable.' And for the Kel Tamashek, that, of course, was the point of the 'remotest festival in the world.' To ensure that, in the eyes of the world, they and their culture remain unforgettable.
	www.cnntraveller.com /2003/issue4/timbuktu (1246 words)

	Music miles from nowhere / Mali's Festival of the Desert is a truly tough ticket
		The Tamashek are more commonly known as Tuareg, an Arabic term (meaning "abandoned by the gods") that has branded them for centuries.
		The Tamashek group Tinariwen, whose debut CD, "The Radio Tisdas Sessions," was one of last year's most critically acclaimed world music albums, was a major draw of this year's festival.
		During the Tamashek's violent campaign in the 1980s and early 1990s to attain more autonomy from Bamako, al-Habib was jailed in Mali and Algeria, at a time when Tinariwen's rebellious music was banned and anyone caught with the group's cassettes was subject to beatings by authorities.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/01/11/DD160397.DTL (731 words)

	Tamashek language resources
		Tamashek is spoken on a daily basis in: Libya, Mauritania
		Both groups speak the native language Tamashek, and write in Tifinagh, which is related to ancient Libyan.
		Bambara is a written language, as is Tamashek, the Berber dialect spoken by the Tuaregs.
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Tamashek.html (676 words)

	Main
		The people group with which I worked were a nomadic desert people know as the Tuareg or Tamashek.
		Although we had an interpreter, it was sometimes necessary for us to communicate directly with the Tamashek people using their language, primitive sign language, or other methods.
		After I returned from Africa, I was not surprised to learn that there was no Tamashek course offered at the University of Alabama.
	bama.ua.edu /~garne027/verbal.htm (377 words)

	In Sahara, Salt-Hauling Camel Trains Struggle On (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Local Tamashek and Berbers who lead the camel caravans know the power of the emptiness of the Sahara.
		Our Tamashek guide, a small, aged man with gentle eyes, had lead caravans across the Sahara since the age of 20.
		He lead our caravan of trucks, armed only with the knowledge of the prevailing wind patterns across the sand, the stars etched across the night sky, the changing color of the sand, and a vintage WWII compass, hopelessly cracked across the glass, but still somewhat reliable.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2003/05/0528_030528_saltcaravan_2.html (937 words)

	World Music Central - Your connection to World Music
		Tinariwen (originally Taghreft Tinariwen, or ‘edification of the lands’) became known for vocalizing the political plight of endangered nomads.
		Their music spoke to the Tuareg or Kel Tamashek, appealing for a political awakening of consciousness.
		With the dawn of the 21st Century, the Kel Tamashek turned to the global circuit.
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /artists/artist_page.php?id=2298 (623 words)

	Mali: Land of Gold and Glory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Of particular note are the Amazigh peoples inclusive of Amazigh (Berbers) prominent in northern Africa, related Tamashek (Tuareg) peoples of Mali and surrounding countries to the north and east, as well as Arab peoples, and others.
		Though Masoff properly attributes the bend of the Niger River at Timbuktu and Gao as the locus of trade and geographically central to commercial and social advances, Amazigh peoples - so prominent in the region - are mentioned just in passing.
		A small but strange omission is no mention that the woman who founded Timbuktu, 'Buctou', was Amazigh and of Tamashek descent.
	www.duchs.com /isbn/0972715606 (939 words)

	Tuareg and Berber Necklaces
		This talisman is made up of 7 layers of metal and inscribed with prayers in the Tamashek language of the Tuareg.
		They are traditionally made of leather and shell, as seen in the example on the far left, but the one above is made from leather and metal.
		Talisman boxes (tcherot in Tamashek, the Tuareg language) contain written verses of the Quran to protect the wearer, to give strength or to ensure fertility.
	www.kenzi.com /JEWELRY/HTML/necklaces.htm (1238 words)

	Rambles: various artists, Festival in the Desert
		Because for the better part of the 1990s this poor African country was the stage of a civil war between the South, a land of sedentary farmers and semi-nomadic pastoralists that is ethnically part of sub-Saharan Africa, and the fiercely independent desert wanderers of the North.
		These Touareg, or Tel Tamashek as they prefer to be called, are closer to the cultural heritage of ancient Moorish North Africa.
		Their song "Aldacha Manin" is signature Tinariwen: wailing guitars and a sonorous interpretation of the lyrics, under the accompaniment of shrill female background vocals.
	www.rambles.net /fest_desert03.html (597 words)

	Language Resources - T
		It is believed to have sprung off the Punic script and was widely used throughout north Africa until the 3rd century AD.
		The modern form of that ancient script is known as Tifinagh (or Shifinagh), the script of the Tamashek language.
		Tamashek is spoken in several sets of dialects, the most prominent ones being Northern and Southern.
	www.langcen.cam.ac.uk /resources/lang-t/lang_t.php?c=3 (150 words)

	Tinariwen Official Ticket Source Joe's Pub New York, NY Broadway Tickets by Telecharge.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Don't miss the return of Mali's desert guitar rebels Tinariwen, living legends of contemporary Touareg (Tamashek) music from the deserts of northern Mali, whose US debut at Joe's Pub last October was selected by Time Out NY as one of the Top concerts of 2004.
		Tinariwen are the creators of a new and contemporary style of Touareg music, often simply referred to as guitar, which MOJO magazine calls "just about the best blues experience this far north of the Sahara".
		Exile and resistance were originally the major themes of the songs but as time passed Tinariwen and their songs have expressed the wider struggles of daily life in the Tamashek speaking countries.
	www.telecharge.com /tickets_Tinariwen_NY_City_Joes_Pub_all.aspx (823 words)

	Tinariwen - Tinariwen gives its people's plight a musical voice and stage by Jonathan Curiel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Tinariwen is unlike any musical group in the world, not just because of where they live (in a remote Malian town called Kidal), but because of their connection to armed rebellion, and because of their intense, guitar-driven songs.
		Tamashek people used the term to be recognized in the West, but we want to be known as Tamashek people."
		The album has more noticeable influences from the West, as on the song "Arawan," which is a kind of rap song in Tamashek and French.
	63.135.96.189 /index.cfm/fuseaction/artist.articles_detail/artist_id/59/article_id/74.cfm (934 words)

	Tinariwen
		The guitar met the gun in rebellion and the band adapted old Tamashek songs to their new electric style.
		They were astonished by what they heard, the primal attack and slow-burning fire of the music.
		You didn't need to speak Tamashek to be affected by it.
	www.globalvillageidiot.net /tinariwen.htm (901 words)

	Nomadic lifestyle threatened by years of successive droughts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		But last year's drought killed the last of her herd and with them the nomadic lifestyle that she had always known.
		She still lives in the traditional portable hut of the Tamashek nomads, but nowadays it's static and never moves from Gao, the main town in the region, a dusty trading post near the Niger border.
		In the Tamashek village of Marsi, nearly 100 km south of Gao and 80 km away from a tarmac road, Mohammed A'hmed Ag Moya says that his herd, which he inherited from his father, has never recovered to pre-1985 levels.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=48630 (820 words)

	Tinariwen gives its people's plight a musical voice and stage
		Then, its lead singer, Ibrahim Ag al-Habib, was in jail for his role in a rebellion of the Kel Tamashek people, who were fighting for more rights in Mali.
		During the Kel Tamashek rebellion, which lasted on and off until the mid- 1990s, Tinariwen's music was banned in Mali.
		On Tinariwen's latest work, "Amassakoul" (which was released this month in the United States), the producers took no chances: They recorded most of the songs in Mali's capital, Bamako, then mixed them in a studio in France.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/10/30/DDGER9I30J1.DTL (863 words)

	S7 DIGITAL : INDEPENDENT MEDIA : ONLINE and MAGAZINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		These were terrible years for the kel Tamashek.” These droughts were just part of a series of ecological disasters that have since threatened to completely destroy their traditional way of life.
		In the years following the first kel Tamashek rebellion of 1963—64, large numbers of tribes-people fled to neighbouring countries such as Algeria and Niger to seek refuge.
		Since returning permanently to their homelands in 1996 after Mali’s transition to democracy and the historic Flame of Peace in Timbuktu (where rebel weapons were voluntarily handed over for incineration), Tinariwen have been joined by numerous younger members — Sarid, Eyadou, Elaga and Mina —and have worked to modify their message to encompass contemporary realities.
	www.spinach7.com /stories/288.html (1519 words)

	Festival in the Desert / cdRoots
		It may not have meant as much to the local Tamashek people that Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant performed at the event, with a schedule filled by legends of Saharan and Malian music.
		The celebration manifests what was envisioned in the 1996 “Flame of Peace,” in which 3000 guns were publicly burned to signify the beginning of the reconciliation between the nomadic and sedentary communities of the southern Sahara.
		EFES, a Tamashek association whose aim is to develop the region, hit on the idea of grafting the Festival onto the great traditional gatherings of the Tamashek people on a grand scale.
	www.cdroots.com /hm-festdes.html (959 words)

	The Female Voice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In the culture of the Kel Tamashek, nomads of the Saharan desert, certain instruments are reserved for women.
		The nomadic Kel Tamashek from the international region around Northern Mali are also known as tuaregs, the “forsaken of God,” to Arabs—but they prefer the more accurate term that emphasizes their common language.
		In the end the thing that makes Tartit stand out is the unique identity the Kel Tamashek have carved out in the Sahara, drawing from Arab and West African sources, Islam and other beliefs, plus their own ancient history and distinctive culture.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=292 (1693 words)

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