Since the Libyan rebellion that ousted Moammar Qaddafi and the fighting in Mali, there has been occasional mention of the Tuareg. The nomadic people of the Sahara are sometimes called the "blue people ...

Tom Seligman set out on a 10-day camel trek through the Sahara on Christmas Day 1979 to photograph ancient rock paintings. The African-art scholar was fascinated by the Tuareg -- the proud North ...

"Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name organized by the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University and the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, ...

THE CANTOR ARTS Center’s exhibition, “Art of Being Tuareg: Sahara Nomads in a Modern World,” presents more than 200 objects. They range from jewelry and clothing to a camel saddle and goatskin tent.

FOR COSMOPOLITAN music lovers, the Tuareg people burst onto the scene in 2001 when their most prominent musical group, Tinariwen, kicked off an internationally acclaimed music festival outside of ...

Climate change threatens ice sheets and ecosystems, but it also threatens human cultures. For centuries, the Tuareg people have lived as nomads, herding their animals from field to field just south of ...

DJANET, Algeria (AP) — In one hand, the dancers hold swords symbolizing battle. In the other, a piece of cloth symbolizing peace. They dance a shuffling “step-step” to the beat of drums and chanting ...

* Main Niger Tuareg rebel groups, government agree peace * Rebel group says formal peace deal should follow * Libyan-sponsored talks are first in two-year rebellion TRIPOLI, April 7 (Reuters) - ...

You might associate music festivals with muddy fields and heaving crowds, but Mali’s “Festival au Desert” is a world away from all that. Based a few kilometers outside the historic town of Timbuktu, ...

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