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With this statement one would thing that Morocco is not a place anyone would live because of its dry hot weather, however, Morocco has a population of 33 million people, according to the worldpopulationreview.com website. Morocco is located in the Maghreb region of North Africa which is in the upper left hand side of Africa next to the Canary Islands and Algeria. Morocco is known for its rugged mountainous interior and large portions of desert. The climate is Mediterranean in the north and in some

There are thousands of diverse cultures around the globe that offer an abundance of valuable knowledge. One of the better approaches to studying their ways of life is through their languages. People often fail to realize just how embedded a culture is within its language. After my mother remarried, I was introduced to an entirely new world where my dad came from a small country named Morocco, located at the northeastern tip of Africa, and spoke a strange form of Arabic. I have always been fascinated

When he became President in April 1999, Bouteflika was in front of three enormous challenges. The first one was the result of a decade of domestic violence and insecurity. The second was the consequence of a catastrophic socio-economic situation attributed to the legacy of decades of statist economics (Bouandel 25-26). The third was the harmful product of the isolation of Algeria from the rest of the world, or what Hugh Roberts called “the virtual quarantine in which Algeria had been confined since

YuanYuan Zhou Section 10 Reading Review of Pirates of Barbary The Book is written by Adrian Tinniswood. Before I read the book I think pirates are rude and violent men, after I read the book I think pirates can be romantic and living for pirates can be jolly. There is always piracy on the sea since the days of commerce. Through the history of Europe, especially in the seventeenth century, piracy become a part of European history. The pirates seemed mysterious. Even in this wonderful book, there

these and demonstrate depictions of women and gender roles are The Arabian Nights and In the Country of Men. These narratives expose the reality of gender roles through identity and Orientalism to highlight the cause for submissive females in the Maghreb. These gender roles create normative behaviors and cause severe treatment towards females. Because most women do not voice their opinions on the subject, there are few ways of

INTRODUCTION UMA means the economic and political organization, founded on 17 February 1989 by the five Maghreb countries, namely Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania and Tunisia. This region is experiencing a great shortage of water. In parallel, there are many problems such as poor access to water leaks in water supply, waste and mismanagement networks. This sentence from the report of the World Bank in 2011 illustrates the need to take action at the risk of seeing the situation worse.

and religions, conflict is increased within and across these areas. We see these up rises in places such as France and India. Throughout the years, many of France’s immigrants have come from European countries and the Maghreb countries throughout North Africa. Many of the Maghreb ins settled in large cities across France in places such as Marseilles and Paris. In France, the men from North Africa are known for owning jobs in the construction and factory areas. The women on the other hand are known

Countries in the Sahel region face various challenges. Among these challenges frequent climate change, desertification, deforestation, frequent food crises, extreme poverty, rapid population growth are the main ones. Basides to the natural problem of the region some other problems such as ethnic centrism, fragile governance, corruption, unresolved internal tensions, violent extremism and radicalization, illegal trafficking and terrorist-linked security threats affects the peace and security of the

Terrorism Paper In 1988, Osama Bin Laden founded what is the most widely know terrorist network today, Al Qaeda. It started off small with only three members, but it grew vastly over the years. This is the organization that held the blame for the September 11th attacks on the United States, along with numerous other outbreaks against the world. In 1992 after establishing Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden was banished from Saudi Arabia, he then founded a new base in Afghanistan, where he declared a war

meaning "helpers of the (Islamic) religion" or "defenders of the faith") is a militant Islamist group led by Iyad Ag Ghaly, one of the most prominent leaders of the Tuareg Rebellion (1990–1995) who is suspected of having ties to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, which is led by his cousin Hamada Ag Hama. Ansar Dine seeks to impose strict Sharia law across Mali. The group's first action was in March 2012. The organization is not to be confused with the Sufi movement Ançar Dine, started in Southern Mali by