r/BeAmazed • u/Outrageous_Prior4707 • Mar 22 '26
Place Touareg , a kind of Imazighen ( Berbers ) of the North Africa desert , where men should cover their faces , while women shouldn't.
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Mar 22 '26
What’s really interesting is that this isn’t just tradition—it goes back centuries to when Tuareg people were nomads crossing the Sahara. The face veil started as protection from sand and heat, but over time it became a symbol of identity and adulthood for men.
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u/Outrageous_Prior4707 Mar 22 '26 edited Mar 23 '26
Exactly, Imazighen 3000 years ago when the forests turned to a desert , they split into two groups , the majority went to the Mediterranean area of north Africa and gave birth to Current famous Amazighs groups like Kabyles ( the tribe of St Augustine, St Monica , Macrinus of cherchel the Roman Emperor who was portrayed in Gladiator 2 ) , Rif , Chawiya , chleh , chinwi , Zewara ( tribe of St Mark the writer of the gospel)!
While little group remained in desert , called tourag and developed this tradition due to protection from sand
The genetic is weird the coastal Mediterranean Imazighen and Toureg of desert share the same paternal haplogeoup Em81, the Berber Mark
But the two groups look so different, the Mediterranean Berbers have Mediterranean European features ( like Zindine Zidane the kabyle ) , and kabyles Imazighen the rate of bleu eyes is the rate of South Spain and Portugal combined
While torag are much darker due to the heat of desert. Even they have same DNA as their brothers of the north
Most touareg today live in the Desert of Algeria , and they are protected by the laws , there's around 100.000 in Algeria ,
While other Mazigh groups of the north are much larger like kabyles ( 12 millions ) , chawi ( 10 millions )
And both North and South Imazighen , have a deep respect for women ,
We North , have Dyhia , our Queen who ruled over all North Africa and defeated the Great Arab Umayyad Army ...
South have Tinhinane the queen of desert ..
( I wrote this comment as Amazigh kabyle myself from Coastal Algeria 🙂)
Hope you were fascinated by my people,
Plus : when we have a missing word in our language especially in Academic institutes , our only solution,is going to our brothers touaregs to give us the original word .
because we Mediterranean Imazighen we were so much in contact with Mediterranean civilization ( Greeks , Rome , Carthage) so with time , our dialect was mixed with Roman, Phonecian , Greeks words even we still speak like 70% of Tamazight , but many words are from other Mediterranean civilization,
So now , the Academic institutes, they relied on Toaregs who were isolated In desert to revive our true language.
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Our true name is Imazighen which means the free men ( we don't like colonizers )
About the Berbers name is debatable,
Some say because of Vandales when they answered the call of the Amazigh saint Aruis , who made vandales from Poland ,Germany to unite with some Anti-rome Amazigh tribes against St Augustine In Hippon so Rome called the team of Vandals-Amazigh , Barbarians then it became Berbers
While the strong evidence, it'd an Arabic name , Arab historians tried so hard to make Imazighen to think that they were Arabs so they created a fiction person called Ber Ibn Qays who was an Arab , and said that Imazighen are from Ber Ber Ibn Qays ( in fact all Islamic sources, believe in this , even some great Islamic historians like Ibn Hazm showed it's a lie )
In fact after the loss of Dyhia , Imazighen converted to Islam from Christianity, then a new hostory started with great Middle ages Empires like ALMOHADS , Almoravides,Zyrids Empires , the most advanced civilization in middle ages Al-Andalus or Moorish Spain which gave birth to the Saver of human civilization, the great Amazigh philosopher Ibn Rushd ( Averroes) who was the key role of European Renaissance who had a direct influence on Thomas Aquinas, Maimonides, Secular mouvement in Paris and Bologna.
The Amazigh New year , is in 12th of January called Yennayer ، and it's an official holiday in Algeria , Morroco , Lybia , this calendar started 3000 years ago when the Amazigh Berber Pharaoh Sheshonq took the thrown of Egypt and Crete the 24th Egyptian Dynasty
The Amazigh national dish is called Couscous from it's original Amazigh name sekso ,
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u/OtherThumbs Mar 22 '26
Amazing! Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I am always happy to hear a language that is saved from being lost - even if this one was still being used daily by your Southern brethren.
Years ago, I was happy to learn that Berbers had the highest percentage of red hair on the planet, though the gene that caused it was different from the gene that caused red hair in Northern Europeans.
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u/rkmvca Mar 22 '26
Thank you for that! I was exposed to Amazigh culture during a visit to Morocco and found it fascinating. Do we know when Imazighen people first came to the Maghreb? It has to be during the African Humid Period I think.
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u/Obeetwokenobee Mar 22 '26
Wow! That's so interesting. I never knew how diverse and complex the Touareg are! I'm going to look a little more into this , so very interesting, thanks.
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u/work_work-work Mar 22 '26
I read in a book a long time ago that the more of a relationship you have to the person you're speaking to, the less you cover your face. It's that true? So that if you're speaking with your brother you don't cover your face, but if you speak to a tourist it's all covered.
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u/RainbowRaider Mar 22 '26
Do you happen to have any more in-depth insight as to how the women dress? If love to hear it from you because there are so many beautiful additions they have and they must have some significance (I love those gorgeous coin-shaped pieces hanging from the women’s heads).
It seems like the jewelry would be rather musical; are there dances that women traditionally do?
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u/GraphicDesignMonkey Mar 22 '26
There's a great episode of Michael Palin's Sahara where he visits the Touareg, visits their homes, and joins a camel caravan with them crossing the desert. Great show.
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u/tomboyfancy Mar 22 '26
This is so interesting! Thank you for sharing your amazing culture with us!
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u/DaisyHotCakes Mar 22 '26
This is fascinating! Are there any books or resources you can share so I can learn more? I have a degree in Classics and Mediterranean Studied but the courses all focused on the Greeks and Egyptians. I would love to learn more about your people!
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u/FlumpPunter Mar 22 '26
Apparently many made it to the Canary islands and i believe the aboriginal people of the islands (Guanches), before the Spanish took over were decedents of the Berbers of north Africa.
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u/raiden55 Mar 22 '26
Does the tradition to not cover women face means they should not travel ?
Or it a beauty criteria?
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u/cuddle_chops Mar 22 '26
Incredibly cool response, thank you for sharing! What is the current level of connection between the modern desert dwelling group in Algeria and the, more diffuse cultural /genetic group of peoples along the Mediterranean coast? Is there an actual sense of shared history and connection, if not based on a very long past common ancestor?
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u/Eibermann Mar 22 '26
i cant talk for other north african countries, but for morocco, the amazigh people language is called tamazight, its not really a languge because there isnt an official set or rules and unified, the various amazigh tripes in morocco all have different dialects of it, the sahrawis speak hasania, while other tripes speak differently as well, the swassa people, jbala ( mountains) and rif ( northeren east), the official language in morocco is darija which is a dialect of arabic, while tamazight language is only spoken by like 30% of people or less, the gov tries to push it on official docs and so on, but it is a dead language and moroccans dont care for it
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u/jamesp420 Mar 23 '26
Thanks for writing this! This was the most fascinating info I've read in a long time. Your pride in your people, their history and their traditions really shines through in your knowledge and writing. Great stuff.
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u/lollette Mar 22 '26
Imazighen from the Moroccan high Atlas mountains !!! We know almost nothing about our heritage so thanks so much for sharing this with me !!!
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u/Pillroller88 Mar 22 '26
I learned more from this post than I expected. Fascinating dive into a history of which I am most ignorant.
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u/cranesinthesky_ Mar 23 '26
Wow, this was fantastic to read. Thank you so much for sharing your history! I've really gotten into Touareg music lately, specifically guitarist/singer Koudede and the group Le Filles de Illighadad. Highly highly recommend to anyone reading!! Truly a breathtaking culture.
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u/overthere1143 Mar 23 '26
The more pale skin of the Northern people is due to the raids the muslim pirates of the Mediterranean did on the coastal towns of Europe. The whole southern coast of Portugal besides Faro (with a maze of islands and a fortress) was hardly inhabited simply because it was so dangerous to live there. White slaves, especially women for harems, were always on high demand on the slave markets of the muslim world.
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u/Carbonatite Mar 23 '26
Another interesting fact - this genetic group also has a much higher prevalence of the genes that cause celiac disease! While average population occurrence worldwide for celiac is ~1% of the population, those of Amazigh ancestry can have rates of over 30%, ironically preventing them from being able to enjoy the traditional dish of couscous.
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u/xerxes_dandy Mar 22 '26
Amazing write up, thank you for sharing. My 9nly connection and knowledge about Tuareg comes from once driving VW touareg and watching Bernardo BertoluccisThe sheltering sky.
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u/Basic-Guard-5008 Mar 22 '26
I’ve never learned so much, so quickly, that I previously knew nothing about! Thank you so much!
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u/Issa7654 Mar 23 '26
There’s also a sizable population in the south of Libya as well, especially around Ghadames/ghat close to the Algerian border.
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u/Distinct-Royal-9762 Mar 23 '26
Bro wrote the history that i studied and when i want to debate it I can't cuz im lazy ... Thanks khouya for this effort 🙏🏻
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u/Sehrli_Magic Mar 23 '26
amazigh culture is so interesting and amazing to me. and i always like the pun that you are Amazing people :D (since amazigh and amazing looks so similar). and while i am not against islam (only against people using it to justify hurting others), i am really sad for how much islam spread over north africa because it "polluted" ie overwrote some of the interesting amazigh culture. its resfreshing to see people that still practice their ethnic roots rather than islam, purely because one is globally heavily spread while the other is rare and not much knowm about but definitely sooo worth learning about.
(and couscous is awesome, thanks for reminding me to buy some!)
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u/Ambiorix33 Mar 22 '26
i mean, thats how all traditions start, a practical thing that becomes a status thing.
Why do you think suits are primarily Black?
Factory smog making it more expensive to keep other coloured cloths clean
Why do you think wedding and house rings are on the left hand? Now its enshrined in tradition, but back then it was so the rings wouldnt get in the way of writing.
Tie clips?
So you dont have you tie dragging on the table when you bent over documents
and on and on it goes
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u/Substantial-One1934 Mar 22 '26
Yes and the makeup I mean the black eye pencil was made from coal to prevent the eye lids from sunburning.
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u/cheerylittlebottom84 Mar 22 '26
*kohl - which is usually made from lead sulfide or antimony sulfide mixed with a fat. Coal is the remains of vegetation formed into rock :)
Charcoal was sometimes used as eyeliner, though. It would be dampened and applied with a brush or wooden stick, although applied on the upper lid and not the waterline (like kohl is). The soot from holding a plate over a burning candle has been used as eyeshadow too; Marlene Dietrich spoke of using this to get a good smoky-eye look.
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u/TheMooseIsBlue Mar 22 '26
Shaking hands hurts when you have rings on your right hand too. Hated that about my class ring back in the day.
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u/SpaceMonkey_321 Mar 22 '26
Like the fremen!
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u/NegativeMusician2211 Mar 22 '26
The cultures in Dune are explicitly based on Middle Eastern cultures
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u/saperlipoperche Mar 22 '26
Tuaregs are from the Sahara desert but yeah Paul Atreides is basically Lawrence of Arabia on steroids
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u/succed32 Mar 22 '26
Yes they got a few of their ideas from different Berber tribes. The Tuareg were famous for defeating the French military multiple times using superior knowledge of the land and hidden water sources.
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u/FoamboardDinosaur Mar 23 '26
Most older cultures/religions called themselves (in their language) The One, The Only, The Free, The First, Gods Chosen, The Best, The Elite, etc.
And those who opposed them called them The Others, The Terrible, The Ugly, The Enemy, The Unwanted, The Downcast, etc.
What we (anyone who is not of the culture or the enemy of) call other cultures depends on who got the words to us first.
And as you can see from what OP mentioned, we have negative words that used to just be words for other cultures/tribes/religions. Vandal, philistine, barbarian, heathen, etc.
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u/SmellsWeirdRightNow Mar 22 '26
Is that not the literal definition of a tradition? Something that has lasted generations, sometimes vestigially, and is still practiced?
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u/Far-Philosophy-4375 Mar 22 '26
If only more religious people did research into the traditions, we would be free as a whole
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u/Habibti-Mimi81 Mar 22 '26
Well, traditions can also mean the complete opposite of freedom.
Female genital mutilation is just one example.
And many things, westerners don't "like" in the lifestyle of people in africa or the middle east are based on traditions, not on religion (but sometimes those people mix them purposely, to confuse those who they want to suppress).
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u/Esorial Mar 22 '26
Does that mean only adult men get protection?
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u/TheMooseIsBlue Mar 22 '26
Seems like a woman could cover her face to protect from the elements/environment if she wanted to but is not expected to cover her face like in some Muslim communities.
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u/Wolverine-75009 Mar 22 '26
Touaregs are Muslim but their society has a matriarchal structure where lineage, property, and inheritance pass through the mother.
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u/Technical-Agency8128 Mar 22 '26
Makes sense. You always know who the mother is.
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u/FixergirlAK Mar 22 '26
It weirds me out that the first time I was exposed to this reason for matriarchal lineage was an Anne Rice book.
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u/CtyChicken Mar 22 '26
LOL
Haven’t thought about that weird ass woman in so long.
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u/FixergirlAK Mar 22 '26
Right?
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u/CtyChicken Mar 22 '26
She was so obsessed with sexualizing children! I read the entire vampire and Mayfair witch series. I didn’t even think about it until I was an adult, like… wait a minute…🤦🏽♀️
Good thing I always thought sexualizing vampires was gross af. Dead as hell, breath smelling like a piggy bank full of pennies.
I’m so glad she had no influence on my development, because I read that lady’s questionable smut at such an impressionable age.
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u/Odd_Ingenuity2883 Mar 23 '26
The new TV series based on the books is absolutely fantastic. They aged up Claudia so it’s slightly less creepy.
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u/MsNaggy Mar 23 '26
A new one? What's it called?
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u/DuffyDoe Mar 22 '26
That's why being Jewish is tested with the mother's lineage, you're never 100% sure who the father is but you know the mother
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u/Substantial-One1934 Mar 22 '26
Yes,many fathers, only one mother.
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u/waitwuh Mar 23 '26
… many potential fathers.
Unless somehow someone can have more than one biological father … 😂
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u/Realistic_Film3218 Mar 23 '26
There's a small matriarchal community in southwestern China called the "Mosuo" that defies patriarchy in their traditional customs, children belong to the mother's family and inheritance is also passed down through the mother. Traditionally, young women can invite men into their bedrooms and conceive children without ever revealing who the true fathers are nor ever getting officially "married", children are raised by their mothers and all the men in the community are considered uncles. Men are willing to communally raise and protect all the children because you never know which of those kids are yours, decreasing the chances of abuse.
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u/Bitter_Expression399 Mar 23 '26
If more societies were matriarchal there'd be way less wars, just saying
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u/VanillaPhysics Mar 22 '26
A similar thing occured with the Mandinka during the period of the Mali Empire.
It was sort of patrilineal, but with an extreme focus on ENSURING the heir was biologically related to the king.
Because of this, the most preferred succession was the king's nephew via his eldest sister. Given that the child would have been birthed by the sister, this 100% ensured that the child was related to the original ruler (whereas the king's son could, in theory, be unrelated to him via infidelity)
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u/juplantern Mar 22 '26
This is also a reason why “sex after marriage “ and virginity was pushed on women so much in the past, it was guaranteed who the father was
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u/Puzzleheaded_Let2053 Mar 24 '26
That's actually hilarious to think that if a woman was a virgin when she got married then you could guarantee who the father was.
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u/overthere1143 Mar 23 '26
The Arabs were matriarchal until Muhammad came along. When the times when islam can be fairly and openly criticised, the world will see how a lot of it was a male power grab. Just for illustration, he married a rich widow who was his boss in a caravan business, but after he became a prophet, the inheritance rights of women were reduced to half the share of a male sibling.
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u/succed32 Mar 22 '26
They are Muslim now. They have existed much longer than the religion has.
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u/Summer_Sixtine Mar 22 '26
The colours the clothes are absolutely wonderful! These shades of blue 👌
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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 Mar 22 '26
It’s from indigo! It’s pounded into the cloth.
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u/Summer_Sixtine Mar 22 '26
Does it transfer onto the skin?
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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 Mar 22 '26
Yes! Apparently that’s why the people were known as the “Blue Men of the Desert” long ago.
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u/lune19 Mar 22 '26
Yep. I spent a 4 months in camps in my youth, and men were not covering their face. But walk 5 min in the desert, ( in my case in the Hoggar) and your mouth will be as dry as sand without a shech covering your mouth. As for the indigo, I haven't seen any. But yeah men tend to dress to seduce and take great care of their appearance. Women's tend to dress in black as dirt doesn't show so much on it.
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u/DiotimaJones Mar 22 '26
Spend 5 seconds in the desert and you will understand why people cover their faces.
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u/Substantial-One1934 Mar 22 '26
Yes especially in a sandstorm.
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u/DiotimaJones Mar 22 '26
People who haven’t experienced one have no idea. A friend of mine took shelter in a car during a sandstorm. When it was over, he got out and noticed that the storm had stripped the paint off of the car.
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u/mieri_azure Mar 23 '26
Of course, but it's interesting that this is the one culture where men are expected to constantly cover their face when unnecessary instead of women.
(Of course the real reason women of some cultures are expected to cover their faces at all times is due to misogyny via objectification but I digress)
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u/toumingjiao1 Mar 22 '26
but why don't the females cover their faces. They all live in desert
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u/mieri_azure Mar 23 '26
I ask that question about the cultures where women cover their faces and not men
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Mar 23 '26
There is a superstition that the veil protects from evil spirit, and that men get haunted by the face
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u/fronkka Mar 23 '26
I assume the women are often inside at home with the children while the men are out and about.
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u/Guardiancomplex Mar 22 '26
They also play some of the best music in the world. Touareg guitarists like Mdou Moctar, Bambino and Tinariwen are planetary treasures.
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u/crambeaux Mar 22 '26
So true! There’s Toumastine and Tamikrest too. I could not believe my eyes and ears when I heard that electric guitar, as if mark knopfler was reproducing in the dessert.
I cannot recommend this music highly enough.
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u/bimm3r36 Mar 22 '26
Wow thanks, all of these artists that you two mentioned have some incredible vibes. The style reminds me of Vieux Farka Touré and, to some degree, Khruangbin. Just added a ton of new stuff to my playlists.
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u/jwelsh8it Mar 22 '26 edited Mar 23 '26
You beat me to it! But please don’t forget the women, such as Les Filles de Illighadad. So so good.
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u/newyne Mar 22 '26
Had the privilege of seeing Tinariwen a couple years ago at Newport Folk Festival; they were great! Really joyful, great crowd interaction!
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u/Phriendly_Phisherman Mar 22 '26
Tinariwen is so freaking good. Saw them live a few years back and it was wild. Like Saharan Led Zeppelin.
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u/ElectricGeometry Mar 22 '26
Omg looooove Mdou Moctar! We always play their music when we have guests over.
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u/lvdybananaaa Mar 22 '26
Thank you for sharing this lil bit. I have added several songs to my library that I'll be jamming to
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u/Cee-Sum-Bhadji Mar 22 '26
They are amongst the most generous and hospitable people I have ever had the good fortune to meet.
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u/Broseph_Stalinnn Mar 22 '26 edited Mar 25 '26
My family is berber. My grandma had a ton of face tattoos and arm and hand ones too. She was a tough lady and had piercing blue eyes. An extremely interesting ethnicity
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u/EmptyApplePie02 Mar 22 '26
I’ve met touaregs! I’m studying archeology and worked in Algeria, I’ve brought back a lot of jewelry made by them, very cool
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u/tallone111 Mar 22 '26
The men must cover their faces because the women are so lustful!
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u/succed32 Mar 22 '26
Fun fact their women aren’t supposed to challenge the men in public, but in private they are expected too.
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u/mieri_azure Mar 23 '26
I mean thats a lot more feminist than many cultures where women are told to never question their husbands no matter what (looking at you, tradwives)
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u/succed32 Mar 23 '26
Most of their cultural norms are around protecting themselves from outsiders. That’s the same reason their men stay masked in public and why their women act demure in front of strangers but will tell their husband off in private or in front of family.
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u/Upset-Disaster1907 Mar 22 '26
Men have to travel in groups and walk on egg shells through crowds of women, as not to be raped.
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u/TeamRedundancyTeam Mar 22 '26
I mean reddit fucking villifies women for it. Both incel and femcel sides of this cesspool do.
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u/Wolverine-75009 Mar 22 '26 edited Mar 22 '26
Check out Mdou Moctar if you’re interested about some of the Touareg music.
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u/Spirited-Muffin-8104 Mar 22 '26
I'm from Libya where Touareg occupy the south western part of the country. They're called Amazigh, which means "free people". Historically, they're a matriarchal society since it's easier to trace lineage by the mother. This doesn't mean women were the rulers, but more that land ownership and inheritance were traced by maternal ancestry. The face covering in the title is misleading though. Amazigh cover their faces to protect from the desert, you will find the scarf over the face in all societies living in the Sahara or Arabia. Since men often worked outside in the desert they had to cover their faces which became part of their traditional custom. Women on the other hand, often stayed in tents and their work was simply across the village so they didn't need to cover their faces. That being said, the custom worn by the women in the post are fancy and reserved for weddings and such. Everyday clothes are more modest than that and they do in fact wrap the scarfs around their head when they're working long hours outside.
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u/problyurdad_ Mar 22 '26
Can someone kindly ELI5 why the people in desert countries layer themselves in linen?
Like, those clothes look THICK. And hot. Does it help with hydration retention or something? How do you tolerate 110 degrees F if you’re wrapped in blankets?
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u/jonny-p Mar 22 '26
Can be cooler to wear light fabrics like linen, also the desert is only hot in the daytime, it can get quite cold at night. As other people have mentioned it also keeps the sand out of your face and probably helps prevent sunburn.
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u/GraphicDesignMonkey Mar 22 '26
When my ex and I visited Egypt we got our guide to take us to the market so we could buy local clothes, kaftans and headscarves etc. and taught us how to wrap the scarves over our heads. Layer of light cotton kept the sun off and made insulation layers so the sun's heat didn't penetrate to your skin. And we also started carrying umbrellas as parasols like the Egyptians do too.
For the rest of the trip we were cool as cucumbers while all the other tourists baked in shorts and shirts, and got sunburnt.
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u/ExplanationFunny Mar 22 '26
I saw a guy on tiktok, I’m so sorry I can’t remember his name, ugh, but he was a PhD anthropologist who studied how people in some of the most extreme hot climates regulate temperature and he shared a lot about how these clothes actually work. It’s fascinating stuff. The thrust of his research was that with climate change as it currently stands, may of these techniques may end up being adopted by the larger world.
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u/sulaymanf Mar 22 '26
They’re very loose fitting, the air under the clothing works as insulation from the heat.
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u/UnrulyCrow Mar 23 '26
Loose fitting clothes made of cotton (retains humidity) and linen (dries quickly) are actually pretty damn good to deal with the heat. I live in Southern France, but I took a page from that, I keep wearing cotton blouses with long sleeves and long linen skirts with a cotton petticoat in Summer (I also use a large straw hat). I never struggle with the heat, because I am not directly exposing my skin to it, and the natural fabrics help with body temperature regulation as well.
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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 Mar 22 '26
The indigo that is used for the cloth is pounded into the fabric instead of wet dyeing. This leads to the indigo dye rubbing off onto the skin; the Touareg were once known as “the blue men of the desert” because of this phenomenon.
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u/ParreNagga Mar 22 '26
They did an Uno Reverse on the Taliban.
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u/BusinessBeetle Mar 22 '26
Can't have those women lusting over the men, tempting them with adultery!
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u/Eretreyah Mar 22 '26
I am ignorant to everything about this culture, but WOW the textiles/clothing and jewelry pictured is gorgeous. That purple is 🤩 wow.
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u/stupidber Mar 22 '26
I thought they were a Volkswagen
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u/Distinct-Royal-9762 Mar 23 '26
Yes Volkswagen named the SUV after the Tuareg people, a nomadic Berber ethnic group that inhabits the Saharan interior of North Africa due the indigo veils traditionally worn by the men and their activities such as traveling for days in hard conditions
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u/edelweiss_pirates_no Mar 22 '26
I'm a guy. I'd be ok with this. I loved wearing a mask during COVID.
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u/ChaseTheMystic Mar 22 '26
Does the reason have to do more with functioning in the desert rather than concealing oneself so others can't see?
I think probably they do.
Still interesting but it's for a different reason than just "you know what, were gonna do the opposite because that's something we disagree with"
It's more coincidence
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u/Reasonable_Youth4723 Mar 22 '26
This works waaaay better! Honestly makes guys look hotter and you can see the beauty of the women! Perfect!
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u/MissMarchpane Mar 22 '26
I don't love the idea that the value for both lies in their attractiveness. This is the same mindset that claims that it's oppressive when women choose to wear more concealing clothing, because it means we must not love our bodies or we're being repressed by somebody else or something
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u/Justin_Continent Mar 22 '26
Wait — so this isn’t just a Volkswagen mid-size luxury crossover SUV?
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u/momomomorgatron Mar 22 '26
I wonder if they could keep a lot of the sand out of their eyes if they had similar things to what the Inuit people inventedhere
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u/IfNe1CanKenCan Mar 22 '26
So they're bearded, yes? Big black beards fully wrapped in black cloth seems horrifically hot to me. I'm a wearer of a modest length uncovered beard who does not live in the desert. A summer day hits and it's time to trim neck and length to get some air flow on skin... Feels like wearing a scarf left to it's own devices.
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u/Middle-Plant-8976 Mar 22 '26
I'm sure there are some that are, but I've seen pictures of a few who either have no beard or a very light mustache.
I'm not sure if those with longer beards suffer through the heat, but I'd imagine they're used to it.
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u/Entgegnerz Mar 22 '26
But I guess they have the choice to do it or not, and that they don't get shot in middle of a street from a so called "Behavior Police", when not covering their head.
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u/Hefty_Performance882 Mar 22 '26
This is the way it should be. Let us see the beautiful faces and hide the beards.
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u/succed32 Mar 22 '26
The women frequently covered their faces in public or among strangers.
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u/Living_Book_3973 Mar 22 '26
why should the beards be hidden lmao beards are majestic
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u/Just4m4n Mar 22 '26
Once bought a piece of ambra from a touareg in Morroco. Amazing people.
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