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    Lounès Matoub (Arabic: معطوب الوناس; 24 January 1956 – 25 June 1998) was an Algerian Kabylian singer, poet, and thinker who sparked an intellectual revolution...
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  • film), an Indian Malayalam film "Allahu Akbar" (Lounès Matoub song), a song written by Lounès Matoub Allahüekber Dağları, a range of mountains in northeast...
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    director, singer and educator Geena Davis, American actress January 24 – Lounès Matoub, Algerian Berber Kabyle singer (d. 1998) January 25 – Bronwyn Pike,...
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    protested, in events that turned violent, after the assassination of singer Matoub Lounès and passage of a law requiring use of the Arabic language in all fields...
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  • Group, the GIA. A few days before his death, the Kabyle Berber singer Lounès Matoub was abducted, released and later assassinated in June 1998 by the GIA...
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    again after the assassination of protest singer and political activist Lounès Matoub at the same time that a law requiring the use of Arabic in all fields...
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  • California, US Wardell "Poochie" Fouse (suspected) Shooting Rapper Lounès Matoub 25 June 1998 42 Aït Aissi, Tizi Ouzou, Algeria Armed Islamic Group of...
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  • blogger. Kumail Nanjiani – Pakistani American stand-up comic and actor. Lounès Matoub – Algerian Berber Kabyle singer. Maryam Namazie – Iranian communist...
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  • document announcing that the GIA had assassinated the Kabyle singer Lounes Matoub. Hattab left the GIA in 1996, rejecting its takfirist policy of massacring...
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    commune in Tizi Ouzou Province in northern Algeria. It is also where Lounès Matoub, a famous Kabyle musician, was assassinated on 25 June 1998. Algeria...
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    African performers. A few days before his death, the Kabyle singer Lounès Matoub was abducted by the GIA. The following year, on February 15, 1995, Raï...
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    and the most important president that the JSK had in its history, and Lounès Matoub, a popular singer and emblematic figure in the struggle for Berber (Amazigh)...
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    Boudjemaa el Ankis Kamel Messaoudi Abdelkader Chaou Dahman El Harachi Lounès Matoub What distinguishes this Algerian Chaabi are the sounds and poems, which...
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    Algiers bombing, 1995 France bombings, Murder of the monks of Tibhirine, Lounès Matoub assassination, Hidroelektra workers massacre Allies Sudan (alleged)...
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    Berber cultures. In 1995, he performed together with fellow Berber Lounès Matoub, who was murdered three years later. His 1999 album, Identités, featured...
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  • Mami Maamar Mamouni Yazid Mansouri Mascezel Masinissa Jacques Massu Matoub Lounes Mauretania Mauretania Caesariensis Mauretania Tingitana Medea, Algeria...
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  • January 28, 1997 Abdelhak Benhamouda, trade unionist June 25, 1998 Lounès Matoub, Berberist singer November 22, 1999 Abdelkader Hachani, Islamic fundamentalist...
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  • June 10 – Steve Sanders, the Oak Ridge Boys, 45, suicide June 25 – Lounès Matoub, assassinated[citation needed] July 3 – George Lloyd, British composer...
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  • she had bought the ice cream and murdered her. Murdered 3 days 1994 Lounès Matoub 38 Algeria Algerian Kabylian singer, poet and intellectual who was abducted...
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    Berber civil rights, human rights and secular activist and musician Lounès Matoub (assassinated in 1998) is widely seen as a hero among Kabyles, despite...
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  • musician Aïssa Djermouni, singer, poet Idir, singer, musician, composer Lounes Matoub, rebel singer of Kabyle music Lounis Ait Menguellet, singer, poet, musician...
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    El Hachemi Guerouabi, born in Algiers, Master of the Châabi music. Lounès Matoub Born in Tizi Ouzou, famous Châabi singer. He used music as a political...
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  • sexually assaulted and strangled. 25 September 1994 Lounès Matoub Armed Islamic Group Algeria 38 Released Matoub, a popular Berber singer and activist, was kidnapped...
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  • singer Marina Kaye, singer Sheryfa Luna, singer Souad Massi, singer Lounes Matoub, Berberist and secularist singer assassinated In 1998 Lounis Ait Menguellet...
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  • Benhamouda 1997 28 January Algerian trade unionist Algiers Algeria unknown Lounès Matoub 1998 25 June Algerian musician Beni Aïssi Algeria police Azem Hajdari...
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    coastal towns. Kabyle music, exemplified by Idir, Ait Menguellet, or Lounès Matoub, also enjoys a wide popularity. In comparison to other Muslim majority...
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  • 17, 2020. "Matoub Lounès : Biographie" Archived July 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine (in French). Kabylie – A La Memoire De Lounes Matoub. Retrieved...
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    assassination of Lounes Matoub on 25 June 1998, an Algerian Berber singer and activist, by the Group Islamique Armee (GIA). Matoub had just arrived from...
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  • conservative activist Al-Ma'arri – blind Arab philosopher, poet and writer Lounès Matoub – Algerian Berber Kabyle singer and activist Asif Mohiuddin – Bangladeshi...
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  • France Lounis Aït Menguellet, Berber Kabyle singer, musician and poet Lounès Matoub, Berber Kabyle singer, poet, thinker and mandole player who was a prominent...
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