During riots in October 1988, Matoub was shot five times by a policeman and left for dead.

The car was fired upon by masked gunmen, killing Matoub and wounding his wife, Nadia Matoub, and two sisters-in-law.

" Allahu Akbar " is a song written by Lounès Matoub.

* " Allahu Akbar " ( Matoub ), a song written by Lounès Matoub

A few days before his death, Kabylian singing star Lounès Matoub was abducted by the GIA.

* On December 6, 1994, Matoub received Le Prix de la Mémoire (" The Memorial Prize ") from Mrs. Danielle Mitterrand, President of La Fondation France Libertés (" The French Liberties Foundation ") in Paris ; the prize recognises those who devote themselves to recording and preserving the impact of political events on ordinary lives.

People without religious affiliation tend to be particularly numerous in Kabylia ( a Berber-speaking area ) where they are generally tolerated and sometimes supported ; notably, Matoub Lounes is widely seen as a hero among Kabyles, despite ( or because of ) his lack of religion.

Matoub had been an outspoken critic of this law.

As such, he notably was the signer of the document announcing that the GIA had assassinated the anti-religious Kabyle singer Lounes Matoub.

In June and July 1998, the area blazed up again after the assassination of singer Lounès Matoub at the same time that a law generalizing the use of the Arabic language in all fields of education went into effect, worsening tensions.

* 1956 – Lounès Matoub, Algerian Berber Kabyle singer ( d. 1998 )

* June 25 – Lounès Matoub, Berber Kabyle singer ( b. 1956 )

* January 24 – Lounès Matoub, Algerian Berber Kabyle singer

Lounès Matoub ( in Kabyle: Lwennas Maṭub, Algerian Arabic: مطوب لوناس ) ( January 24, 1956 – June 25, 1998 ) was a famous Berber Kabyle singer and mondol player who was a prominent advocate of the Berber cause and secularism in Algeria throughout his life.

Berber Algerians still accuse the Algerian regime of killing Matoub Lounès, but some of the Algerian regime's figures accused the Islamist terrorists of this crime.

Matoub Lounès spoke out in favour of federalism, secularism, democracy, freedom of speech, the recognition of Berber as a national and official language, and the decentralization of public schools.

Article on Berber music containing musician Moh Alileche's recollections of Lounes Matoub.

* Kabylie A La Memoire De Lounes Matoub In French.

Great performers are: Cheikh El Hasnaoui, Slimane Azem, Aït Menguellet, Idir, Kamel Messaoudi, Lounès Matoub or even Takfarinas.

Hassen Zermani's all-electric Takfarinas and Abdelli's work with Peter Gabriel's Real World helped bring Kabylian music to new audiences, while the murder of Matoub Lounes inspired many Kabylians to rally around their popular musicians.

Lounes Matoub was born on 24 January 1956 in the village of Taourirt Moussa in Algerian Kabylia.

Matoub began his singing career under the patronage of the established Kabyle singer Idir.

Despite being banned from Algerian radio and television, Matoub became, and remains, an extremely popular Kabyle singer.

Matoub remained in Algeria.

Matoub Lounès ( in the middle with the white shirt ) with his friends, notably Mourad Nechab, known to be his favorite, and family in Kabylie.

On 30 June 1998 the GIA claimed responsibility for the assassination of Lounes Matoub.

Two streets in France have been named after Matoub, one in Grenoble and one in Lyon.

The pair are part of a group of 10 people accused of the killing Lounès Matoub and have been in prison awaiting trial since 1998.

Many Americans reacted irrationally to the challenge of Russia and turned to the repression of ideas by force.

But the Latin American republics who have been rather inclined to drag their feet on taking action against Castro also reacted swiftly last week by finally throwing Cuba off the Inter-American Defense Board.

These suggested interpretations were given by the subjects spontaneously when they were told that there were people who reacted differently than they had.

Some of the earliest recordings, made in the 1940's demonstrated that psychiatrists reacted immediately to anger and anxiety in the sound track, whereas written records of the same interview offered far fewer cues to therapy which -- if they were at all discernible in print -- were picked up only by the most skilled and sensitive experts.

Amasis reacted by cultivating closer ties with the Greek states to counter the future Persian invasion into Egypt but was fortunate to have died in 526 B. C. E.

Conservative Oklahoma state legislators reacted by demanding Hill's resignation from the university, then introducing a bill to prohibit the university from accepting donations from out-of-state residents, and finally attempting to pass legislation to close down the law school.

Although local police were surprised by the size of N30, law enforcement agencies have since reacted worldwide to prevent the disruption of future events by a variety of tactics, including sheer weight of numbers, infiltrating the groups to determine their plans, and preparations for the use of force to remove protesters.

The Great Powers, most notably France and Austria-Hungary, reacted to this diplomatic sensation by trying to dissuade the League from going to war, but failed.

The official army position, backed by the British Home Secretary the next day in the House of Commons, was that the paratroopers had reacted to gun and nail bomb attacks from suspected IRA members.

Like Reform Judaism, the Conservative movement developed in Europe and the United States in the 19th century, as Jews reacted to the changes brought about by the Enlightenment and Jewish emancipation, a confluence of events that lead to Haskalah, or the Jewish Enlightenment.

Western scholars have reacted against the ethnic inclusiveness narrative in PRC-sponsored history by writing revisionist histories of China, that feature, according to James A. Millward, " a degree of ' partisanship ' for the indigenous underdogs of frontier history ".

However, Japan reacted by an attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, and the United States was at war with Japan, Germany, and Italy.

Linguists of the Romanian Academy reacted by declaring that all the Moldovan words were also Romanian words ; while in Moldova, the head of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Ion Bărbuţă, described the dictionary as a politically motivated " absurdity ".

Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson reacted to " The Raven " by saying, " I see nothing in it " and derisively referred to Poe as " the jingle man ".

The Committee reacted by sending dragoons into the countryside to arrest farmers and seize crops.

The Porfirian regime reacted by placing pressure on the Madero family's banking interests, and at one point even issued a warrant for Madero's arrest on the grounds of " unlawful transaction in rubber ".

Supporters of Gomes and his party, PAIGC, reacted to the move by demonstrating in the capital, Bissau ; Antonio Indjai, the Deputy Chief of Staff, then warned that he would have Gomes killed if the protests continued.

Some corporations, such as Royal Dutch Shell, BP and Électricité de France have reacted to Greenpeace campaigns by spying on Greenpeace activities and infiltrating Greenpeace offices.

That a low-ranking priest was used as envoy was due to the duke's rude manners: the previous envoy, the bishop of Parma, had quit because the duke had wiped his buttocks in front of him: Saint-Simon in his Mémoires relates that Alberoni gained Vendôme's favor when he was received in the same way, but reacted adroitly by kissing the duke's buttocks and crying " O culo di angelo !".

Great Auks reacted to noises, but were rarely scared by the sight of something.

The PLH and other opponents of the government reacted to these changes by attempting to overthrow Carías.

The elections of deputies to the 16 May 1830 had gone very badly for King Charles X. Charles X reacted by proroguing the Chamber of Deputies and sending them all packing, and then unilaterally changed the electional laws in an attempt to create a new Chamber of Deputies more favorable to him, and muzzled the press.

Unbeknownst to him, his body reacted by instantly disintegrating into snow, which in turn melted and he existed in a gaseous state for a short period of time.

Baras believes that Origen had seen the original Testimonium but that the Testimonium seen by Origen had no negative reference to Jesus, else Origen would have reacted against it.