Igiwer N’ufrak is a channel of video essays in Arabic: philosophy, the books worth arguing with, and Amazigh identity. It has been asking questions out loud since December 2019.
Counted on 28 September 2026, and still growing.
The channel opened on 14 December 2019.
Short enough for a coffee, long enough to change a question.
Every video starts the same way: one question that will not leave, one book or one memory that sharpens it, and ten minutes to think it through out loud, with you.
Host name and a short introduction, supplied by the host
The videos are in Arabic. This site is in English, French and Tamazight, so the ideas travel further than the videos can.
From a first upload to a library of questions.
Igiwer N’ufrak starts on YouTube as a place to think out loud, in Arabic, about the questions school never asked.
Igiwer d Mike: sixty-six minutes with a digital nomad and world traveller, streamed live.
Watch on YouTubeThe Old Man and the Sea, For Bread Alone, Jung’s The Undiscovered Self, and Apuleius, the Amazigh who wrote the first novel.
Open the libraryEpisodes, essays and books in one place, in English, French and Tamazight.
Start watchingTamazirt, homeland. Awal, the word. Tilelli, freedom.
Three threads run through every episode.
Meaning, happiness, despair and the second birth of the self, read through Jung and through the questions school never asked.
The Old Man and the Sea, For Bread Alone, The Undiscovered Self, and what they still ask of us today.
Why our grandparents’ names now sound old, and how an Amazigh wrote the first novel 1,900 years ago.
A new essay arrives every few days. Subscribe, or write if an episode stayed with you.
