The hotel was in Siwa, a place that, he explained, was part of Egypt but had the feeling of an independent state: for millennia, generations of Berber tribes had lived there under their own laws.

Siwa is the archetypal oasis where fresh springs give life to olive trees and date palms. Here, ... Even today local traditions and Siwi, the local Berber language, dominate.

SIWA OASIS, Egypt — Youssef Diab drives his truck through the Egyptian oasis of Siwa, singing catchy songs in a local Berber dialect that clings to life despite the dominance of Arabic.The UN has ...

The sublimely isolated oasis of Siwa, on Egypt’s Libyan border, is luring a new crowd of groovy travelers (and Prince Charles too). A dispatch from the land that time forgot.

Egyptian Berber activists want representation in the national dialogue that the Egyptian interim government is holding with political parties and activists. Amany al-Weshahy, a scholar on Berber ...

The 13th-century edifice, called Shali or home in the local Siwi language, was built by Berber populations atop a hill in the pristine Siwa oasis, some 600 kilometres (370 miles) southwest of Cairo ...

Youssef Diab drives his truck through the Egyptian oasis of Siwa, singing catchy songs in a local Berber dialect that clings to life despite the dominance of Arabic. The UN has classified Siwi ...

Siwa is the archetypal oasis where fresh springs give life to olive trees and date palms. Here, it is about sitting back and letting the halcyon days wash over you.

The Berbers of Siwa are one of the main linguistic minorities in Egypt, the most populous Arabic-speaking country with some 100 million inhabitants and long the flag-bearer of Arab nationalism.

Youssef Diab drives his truck through the Egyptian oasis of Siwa, singing catchy songs in a local Berber dialect that clings to life despite the dominance of Arabic. The UN has classified Siwi ...