Hoggar mountains. This includes a
school where young women learn how
to play the Imzad and also how make
this musical instrument. This school
also offers Tifînagh classes and its programme includes courses on other aspects of Tuareg culture and history,
the origin and development of the
Imzad, lyrics and chants for the Imzad, and also computer classes. Another important aim is to promote

Imzad-making and the manufacture of other Tuareg products as a "cottage industry".
The projected cultural centre "Dar el Imzad" in Tamanrasset will house the Imzad school with all its courses and a media-centre where documentation on the Imzad, lyrics and chants will be archived and made accessible to the public.

music in the desert