By Ruba Hattar This week, Algeria, France, North Africa and all lovers of Kabyle and Berber cultures folk music fusions bid farewell to the brilliant Algerian singer and musician Hamid Cheriet, better known by his stage name Idir or Yidir. The Berber-speaking Kabyle people are a sub-group of North and West Africa’s wider Berber ethnic population. In Algeria, the Kabyles are a minority that have historically been repressed by the ...