{"id":1367,"date":"2015-11-16T23:19:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T23:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amazighworldnews.com\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2018-04-05T12:28:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T16:28:59","slug":"ghadames-as-capital-of-arab-heritage-angers-amazigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/ghadames-as-capital-of-arab-heritage-angers-amazigh\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghadames as capital of Arab heritage,  angers Amazigh"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1368\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1368\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazighworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Libya6-090b1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1368 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amazighworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Libya6-090b1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Covered Walkways in Ghadames\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Libya6-090b1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Libya6-090b1-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Libya6-090b1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Libya6-090b1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Libya6-090b1-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Covered Walkways in Ghadames<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Zuwarah (AWN) |<\/strong> The declaration of Ghadames\u00a0as capital of Arab heritage\u00a02016 by the high committee for Arab media Production\u00a0in Cairo, have fueled a torrent of criticism and anger among the Amazigh Community in Libya, who perceive it a as a clear case of discrimination and\u00a0continuation\u00a0of the blurring of Amazigh culture and identity across North Africa which\u00a0historically known as the\u00a0land of the Amazigh way before the Arab invasion from the east.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s insulting,\u201d \u00a0says an Amazigh Activist\u00a0from Zwara, Another activist added \u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s crazy to ignore Amazigh culture, especially Ghadames which is a icon of Amazigh tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following the declaration, local\u00a0Amazigh activist in Libya, have\u00a0launched a campaign as a protest against the award, \u00a0Meanwhile another contest is being organised by the\u00a0Amazigh people across the world\u00a0to select the most beautiful Amazigh\u00a0city\/town\u00a0in North Africa,\u00a0Ghadames is being nominated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zuwarah (AWN) | The declaration of Ghadames\u00a0as capital of Arab heritage\u00a02016 by the high committee for Arab media Production\u00a0in Cairo, have fueled a torrent of criticism and anger among the Amazigh Community in Libya, who perceive it a as a clear case of discrimination and\u00a0continuation\u00a0of the blurring of Amazigh culture and identity across North Africa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,1],"tags":[179,178,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-1367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tamazgha","8":"category-uncategorized","9":"tag-amazigh-in-libya","10":"tag-ghdames","11":"tag-north-africa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}