Beth Py-Lieberman | Author, The Object at Hand: Intriguing and Inspiring Stories from the Smithsonian Collections The Tuareg, a once semi-nomadic and pastoral people who held sway over the caravan ...

In Undertows: A Tuareg Tale, Malian film director Intagrist el Ansari captures the way of life of his people – the Tuaregs. Filmed over 10 years in nomadic settlements and refugee camps, the ...

The Word has been a long time in coming to the Tuareg, a nomadic tribe roaming the central and lower Sahara. The area’s tribal dialect, Tamahaq, is written without vowels, and permits any word to be ...

Romanticized by European colonizers as fierce, camel-riding warriors swathed in indigo veils, the semi-nomadic Tuareg people of North and West Africa for centuries coaxed a livelihood from their harsh ...

With a long, gurgling groan, Lakhmar fell awkwardly to his knees in the roasting hot sand outside the town of Timbuktu. For the past six years he has been making the same gruelling trek across the ...

A Tuareg caravan travels north through a remote region of southern Niger July 4, 2005. Nomadic Tuaregs are an ethnic minority who roam across the Sahel countries south of the Sahara, [including Mali, ...

The music of Mali's Tuareg people is music of resistance. Master traders of the Sahara desert for millenia, they've never enjoyed significant political power, and their musical culture reflects that ...