Taking a Look at Morocco

United States has always been described as the land of opportunity and freedom. Most people who visit America are more likely to stay due to its beauty and the opportunities that are available to succeed, so I was confident than I would be spending most of my life here. By the time I got the U.S, school was about to start. I finished 7th grade before I came to the United States, so I was supposed to be in 8th grade once school starts; however, the principle of the middle school that I was going to attend stated that I was too young to advance to 8th grade; therefore, I have to repeat 7th grade. When I started school, I had to face many challenges since I did not speak English. During the first year of school, I have struggled a lot thought out my classes especially in my English class. Since I did not understand English, I did not understand what my teachers were saying so it was impossible for me to complete the assigned tasks and perform well in class. This situation is basically similar to an American student taking advanced Spanish class for the first time and telling him/her to pass the class without knowing any Spanish at

Abd Allah B. Buluggin memoir the Tibyan gives an account of history in the Iberian Peninsula under Islamic rule. During this era the text produced about the land and history was destroyed or lost. Therefore making the Tibyan the best account of history for that era, it covers the history following the Ibn Hayyan’s era, events and developments from the 5th/11th century, in addition it gives perspectives of a Taifa prince and a Berber prince. Nonetheless, the Tibyan is a memoir of Abd Allah B. Buluggin therefore making it opinionated and making Buluggin look virtues in the beholder eye. When the Tibyan was being written by Abd Allah, he was sent to exile in Morocco. Once a dynasty ends people begin to look at the negative aspects of the dynasty and say the reason for its fall. Abd Allah took the opportunity of writing the Tibyan so people may view his family rule in the manner that he wants people to perceive his dynasty. He had accomplished this through multiple decisions he had made throughout his memoir.

Both my Grandfather and Grandmother from my father's side of the family were born and grew up in Morocco. My Great Grandparents are buried in Morocco. I am interested in learning about the history of the Jewish community and the relationship the community has had historically and currently with the King. Also, I am interested in the culture of Morocco including the food, music, and art that has come from the nation. Finally, I would like to learn more about the Arab Spring and the effect it had in Morocco.

Loti enjoys the city as he walks about dressed in Arab garb. When he returns to the quarters of the French Minister, the Arab men encourage him to continue to dress in the clothes of Morocco when he returns to France. Loti sees the French Minister and his other colleagues sitting at lunch European style, he realizes he has returned to the modern world and these quarters are really a “little corner of France”(Loti, Pg. 232).

The people of Neolithic has occupied Libya state for more than ten thousand years ago. There are many different indigenous tribes have to be known collectively as Berbers, the word Berber it comes from the Roman Word Barbarians. Form the early civilization ascended Libyan historical geographic divisions; Cyrenaica, Tripolitania, and Fezzan. The Mediterranean coast has become a crossroads to the Libya state for the sequence of the ancient empires, Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Vandals, and Byzantines, who connected through motorcade routes to the inner desert empire of the Garamantes, and other Berber tribes. In the eleventh century, an immense invasion of Arab nomads, Bedouins, have covered the Arab cultural and the practice of Islam throughout

Participating in CULP was a lot of firsts for me. For example, it was the first time I have had any military training outside of ROTC at my campus, it was my first time going to Ft. Knox, it was my first time flying internationally, it was my first time outside of the United States, etc. Taking the time to look back, I feel like it was one of the most valuable training experiences that I could have received as a cadet. I learned a great deal about my how I understood cultural, how I would deal with facing another culture and more about myself as a person. For this paper, I am going to reflex back on the mission as I went through it and show how my confidence grew as I had more experiences.

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Learning a language is one thing, but experiencing the culture, and being exposed to people who natively speak that language is extraordinary. I want to go to Morocco because I want to be surrounded by Arabic-speaking natives, and Moroccan culture; I want to be able to appreciate and learn the language in a way that I would not be able to do here. Going to Morocco has always been a dream of my mine, but learning about the culture while there would be tremendous.

Western Sahara is a territory located on the north-western coast of Africa, bordered by Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania, and the Atlantic Ocean. Although almost 20% of the region has been deemed suitable for agriculture, none of the territory is able to support permanent crops and there’s a low availability of freshwater, so West Sahara relies primarily on coastal fisheries and phosphate ore deposits as natural resources. The Western Sahara conflict is an ongoing conflict between the Polisario Front, of the Sahrawi people, and the kingdom of Morocco. The conflict is the continuation of the past insurgency by Polisario against the Spanish colonial forces in 1973–75 and the subsequent Western Sahara War between the Polisario and Morocco, in 1975–91.

In 1956, Morocco emerged as independent from one of the many colonizers at the time, France. Those who were to lead the transition from colony to independent monarchy had two problems. First, France officially recognized Morocco as an independent sovereign state but insisted on guiding the creation of the new state (Balfaraj, para. 5-7). Second, as the case with its neighbour Algeria, France had annexed its colonies in North Africa and redefined them as French in culture, tradition and territory. In doing so, it declared a war on native culture and traditions (Hannoum, pp. 7-11). Hence, how was Morocco going to regain its native culture and what form would the newly independent Morocco culturally assume? Political theorists such as Anderson argued that nations will form when a national public consciousness arises. Others, like Habermas, theorised that nations would regain identity when the public and private spheres merge and, as per Andreson, when both spheres, melded into one, reimagine and actualise their pre-colonial national identity and ultimately emerge as a united construct. While both theories try to imagine, and define post-colonial national identity, female writers such as Assisa Djeba from Algeria, Souad Guellouz from Tunisia and Leila Abouzeid from Morocco immediately slipped into their culture, language, traditions and nationhood. Despite the utterly cruel cultural, linguistic and national suppression they faced under the French, none of the elements which

I had fun discovering the moroccan language and try to repeat it all day, I drunk moroccan tea for 2 weeks and I would never get enough because it's too delicious. I never knew that moroccans people love Tunisians this much. I made an amazing friendship with wonderful people from all over the world.

In the Middle Eastern country of Yemen, a battle is being fought leaving much destruction to infrastructure and hundreds of lives lost. Actually it is not so much of a battle as it is a total, one-sided bombardment of this country. This is an attempt from a U.N. sponsored, Saudi led coalition that is trying to persuade Houthi rebels into thinking reasonably and diplomatically by bombing them back into the Stone Age. In order to fully understand what brought the U.N. to a point of agreement on engagement of this operation, it is important to understand the recent history of Yemen and the events leading up to this conflict. Equally important is the geographic location of Yemen, the main actors fighting over this country and who directly

This issue is one that has been, and still is, contested across the world. It is easy to argue that there are examples of both successful democracies and dictatorships (especially in regards to the Middle East and the North Africa region), as well as examples of those that are failing, particularly in an economic sense. Whilst it is indeed argued that the introduction of democracy to many of the Middle Eastern countries may indeed encourage economic development, there are also many arguments as to the benefits that non-democratic countries can achieve in the same field. The example of the strength of Western democracies, whilst appropriate in the Western setting, may not transfer smoothly (or at all) into Middle Eastern society, given the differences in cultures and long term history of non-democracy found there. It is also perhaps the case that the real potential influencer upon any economic development, both short term and long term, may in fact be the capitalism that is so often associated with democracy. It soon also becomes clear that, upon further study, that it is particularly difficult to compare democracies and dictatorships economically, as there are also many other factors that contribute to economic growth, which can thus make any statistics relatively redundant.

Libya’s history over the last century has been an eventful one. Even by Middle Eastern standards it is an extraordinary odyssey. From Ottoman backwater to Italy’s colonisation of Libya in 1911; Gaddafi’s military coup in 1969 to overthrow the king; the US airstrikes of 1986; the Lockerbie case and to the civil war of 2011. We will discuss these events and look into any to foreign policy passed during these events as well as their effectiveness and legality. I hypothesise that, when looking at all the events together, there may be a pattern of sorts that can be seen in Libya’s history.

Morocco is located in Northwest Africa, it has a coastline on the north Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. It is almost the same size of California . Morocco is a mountainous place and is intersected by the Sahara desert. The capital of the country is Rabat and the largest city is Casablanca. One thing that sets morocco aside from the rest of the countries, is crafting and producing traditional items. Morocco 's filled with unique style and art. The art is displayed especially on their mosques and architecture. Some examples are, pottery and ceramics, jewelry and accessories. The art and traditions of Morocco is a vital factor that brings tourists in. The climate of Morocco is mostly moderate and subtropical. But the further from the ocean, the colder it gets and vice versa. The climate causes threat to its economic activities, including, fishing, agriculture and tourism. The official language of Morocco is Arabic but Spanish and French are also spoken. The official religion of Morocco is Sunni Islam. Although the vast majority practices Sunni Islam, there are many people who practice Christianity.