Berber woman, Taarart, Morocco, 2005
by dgwa on 2008-04-29 14:14:42
A Berber woman shows her hands blackened with henna as she prepares to attend a wedding in the village of Taarart, Morocco. Numbering around 25 million in Morocco and Algeria, the Berbers, or Amazigh, have inhabited this region for thousands of years prior to the Arab conquest of the seventh century A.D., which brought Islam to these shores.
