Culture of North Africa, the Glossary
The culture of North Africa encompasses the customs and traditions of art, architecture, music, literature, lifestyle, philosophy, food, politics and religion that have been practiced and maintained by the numerous ethnic groups of North Africa.[1]
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146 relations: Abdel-Hamid ibn Badis, Africa, Agriculture, Ahmed Zewail, Al-Andalus, Albert Camus, Algeria, Algerians, Ancient Egypt, Andalusi classical music, Annaba, Anwar Sadat, Apuleius, Arab states of the Persian Gulf, Arab world, Arabic, Arabs, Assia Djebar, Augustine of Hippo, Bedouin, Bedouin music, Beni Ḥassān, Berber languages, Berber music, Berbers, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Catholic Church, Central Atlas Tamazight, Chaabi, Cheb Mami, Christianity, Civilization, Clan, Classical Arabic, Colonialism, Coptic Orthodox Church, Copts, Culture of Egypt, Dahmane El Harrachi, Decolonization, Dialect, Egypt, Egyptian Arabic, Egyptians, El Hadj M'Hamed El Anka, Emir Abdelkader, Ethnicity, Europe, Exile, Folklore, ... Expand index (96 more) »
Abdel-Hamid ibn Badis
Abd al-Hamīd ibn Mustafa ibn Makki ibn Badis (عبد الحميد بن مصطفى بن المكي بن باديس), better known as Ibn Badis was an Algerian Salafi educator, exegete, Islamic reformer, scholar and figurehead of cultural nationalism.
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Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
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Agriculture
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.
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Ahmed Zewail
Ahmed Hassan Zewail (February 26, 1946 – August 2, 2016) was an Egyptian-American chemist, known as the "father of femtochemistry".
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Al-Andalus
Al-Andalus was the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula.
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus (7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist.
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Algeria
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.
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Algerians
Algerians are the citizens and nationals of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria.
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Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.
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Andalusi classical music
Andalusi classical music (ṭarab ʾandalusī; música andalusí), also called Andalusi music or Arab-Andalusian music, is a genre of music originally developed in al-Andalus by the Muslim population of the region and the Moors.
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Annaba
Annaba (عنّابة, "Place of the Jujubes"), formerly known as Bon, Bona and Bône, is a seaport city in the northeastern corner of Algeria, close to the border with Tunisia.
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Anwar Sadat
Muhammad Anwar es-Sadat (25 December 1918 – 6 October 1981) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the third president of Egypt, from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981.
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Apuleius
Apuleius (also called Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis; c. 124 – after 170) was a Numidian Latin-language prose writer, Platonist philosopher and rhetorician.
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Arab states of the Persian Gulf
The Arab states of the Persian Gulf or the Arab Gulf states (دول الخليج العربي) refers to a group of Arab states bordering the Persian Gulf.
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Arab world
The Arab world (اَلْعَالَمُ الْعَرَبِيُّ), formally the Arab homeland (اَلْوَطَنُ الْعَرَبِيُّ), also known as the Arab nation (اَلْأُمَّةُ الْعَرَبِيَّةُ), the Arabsphere, or the Arab states, comprises a large group of countries, mainly located in Western Asia and Northern Africa.
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Arabic
Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.
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Arabs
The Arabs (عَرَب, DIN 31635:, Arabic pronunciation), also known as the Arab people (الشَّعْبَ الْعَرَبِيّ), are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa.
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Assia Djebar
Fatima-Zohra Imalayen (30 June 1936 – 6 February 2015), known by her pen name Assia Djebar (آسيا جبار), was an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker.
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Augustine of Hippo
Augustine of Hippo (Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa.
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Bedouin
The Bedouin, Beduin, or Bedu (singular) are pastorally nomadic Arab tribes who have historically inhabited the desert regions in the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, the Levant, and Mesopotamia (Iraq).
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Bedouin music
Bedouin music is the music of nomadic Bedouin Arab tribes in the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, Mesopotamia and the Levant.
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Beni Ḥassān
Beni Ḥassan (بني حسان "sons of Ḥassān") is a Bedouin Arab tribe which inhabits Western Sahara, Mauritania, Morocco and Algeria.
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Berber languages
The Berber languages, also known as the Amazigh languages or Tamazight, are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family.
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Berber music
Berber music refers to the musical traditions of the Berbers, a diverse grouping of distinct ethnic groups indigenous to North Africa who predate the arrival of Arabs in the Arab migration to the Maghreb.
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Berbers
Berbers, or the Berber peoples, also called by their endonym Amazigh or Imazighen, are a diverse grouping of distinct ethnic groups indigenous to North Africa who predate the arrival of Arabs in the Arab migrations to the Maghreb.
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Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Boutros Boutros-Ghali (Buṭrus Buṭrus Ghālī; 14 November 1922 – 16 February 2016) was an Egyptian politician and diplomat who served as the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1992 to 1996.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Central Atlas Tamazight
Central Atlas Tamazight or Atlasic (native name: Tamazight) is a Berber languageCentral Atlas Tamazight may be referred to as either a Berber language or a Berber dialect.
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Chaabi
Chaabi (شعبي in Arabic), also known as Chaâbi, Sha-bii, or Sha'bii meaning "folk", refers to different music genres in North Africa such as Algerian chaabi, Moroccan chaabi and Egyptian Shaabi.
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Cheb Mami
Mohamed Khelifati (محمد خليفاتي,; born 11 July 1966), better known by his stage name Cheb Mami (شاب مامي), is an Algerian musician and singer-songwriter.
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Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Civilization
A civilization (civilisation) is any complex society characterized by the development of the state, social stratification, urbanization, and symbolic systems of communication beyond signed or spoken languages (namely, writing systems and graphic arts).
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Clan
A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent.
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Classical Arabic
Classical Arabic or Quranic Arabic (the most eloquent classic Arabic) is the standardized literary form of Arabic used from the 7th century and throughout the Middle Ages onwards, having succeeded the Paleo-Arabic script.
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Colonialism
Colonialism is the pursuing, establishing and maintaining of control and exploitation of people and of resources by a foreign group.
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Coptic Orthodox Church
The Coptic Orthodox Church (lit), also known as the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria, is an Oriental Orthodox Christian church based in Egypt.
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Copts
Copts (niremənkhēmi; al-qibṭ) are a Christian ethnoreligious group indigenous to North Africa who have primarily inhabited the area of modern Egypt since antiquity.
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Culture of Egypt
The culture of Egypt has thousands of years of recorded history.
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Dahmane El Harrachi
Dahmane El Harrachi (real name Abderrahmane Amrani), (July 7, 1926 – August 31, 1980), was an Algerian Chaâbi singer of Chaoui origin.
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Decolonization
independence. Decolonization is the undoing of colonialism, the latter being the process whereby imperial nations establish and dominate foreign territories, often overseas.
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Dialect
Dialect (from Latin,, from the Ancient Greek word, 'discourse', from, 'through' and, 'I speak') refers to two distinctly different types of linguistic relationships.
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Egypt
Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.
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Egyptian Arabic
Egyptian Arabic, locally known as Colloquial Egyptian (اللغة العامية المصرية.), or simply Masri (also Masry) (مَصرى), is the most widely spoken vernacular Arabic variety in Egypt.
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Egyptians
Egyptians (translit,; translit,; remenkhēmi) are an ethnic group native to the Nile Valley in Egypt.
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El Hadj M'Hamed El Anka
El Hadj M'Hamed El Anka (الحاج محمد العنقة), (May 20, 1907 in Algiers – November 23, 1978 in Algiers) also known as Hadj Muhammed Al Anka, El-Hadj M'Hamed El Anka (and various other combinations), was considered a Grand Master of Andalusian classical music and Algerian chaâbi music.
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Emir Abdelkader
Abd al-Qadir ibn Muhyi al-Din (6 September 1808 – 26 May 1883; عبد القادر ابن محي الدين), known as the Emir Abdelkader or Abd al-Qadir al-Hassani al-Jaza'iri, was an Algerian religious and military leader who led a struggle against the French colonial invasion of Algiers in the early 19th century.
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Ethnicity
An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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Exile
Exile or banishment, is primarily penal expulsion from one's native country, and secondarily expatriation or prolonged absence from one's homeland under either the compulsion of circumstance or the rigors of some high purpose.
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Folklore
Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
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Frantz Fanon
Frantz Omar Fanon (20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961) was a French Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist, political philosopher, and Marxist from the French colony of Martinique (today a French department).
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein (15 January 1918 – 28 September 1970) was an Egyptian military officer and politician who served as the second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970.
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Geopolitics
Geopolitics is the study of the effects of Earth's geography (human and physical) on politics and international relations.
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Hassaniya Arabic
Hassaniya Arabic (translit; also known as,,,, and Maure) is a variety of Maghrebi Arabic spoken by Mauritanian Arabs and the Sahrawi people.
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Hellenization
Hellenization (also spelled Hellenisation) or Hellenism is the adoption of Greek culture, religion, language, and identity by non-Greeks.
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Ibn Khaldun
Ibn Khaldun (أبو زيد عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن خلدون الحضرمي.,, Arabic:; 27 May 1332 – 17 March 1406, 732–808 AH) was an Arab sociologist, philosopher, and historian widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest social scientists of the Middle Ages, and considered by many to be the father of historiography, sociology, economics, and demography studies.
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Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
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Islam in Algeria
Islam is the majority and state religion in Algeria.
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Islam in Sudan
Islam is the most common religion in Sudan and Muslims have dominated national government institutions since independence in 1956.
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Islam in Tunisia
Islam is the official state religion in Tunisia.
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Islamic clothing
Islamic clothing is clothing that is interpreted as being in accordance with the teachings of Islam.
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Islamism
Islamism (also often called political Islam) refers to a broad set of religious and political ideological movements.
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Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.
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Jewish exodus from the Muslim world
In the 20th century, approximately Jews migrated, fled, or were expelled from Muslim-majority countries throughout Africa and Asia.
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Jews
The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.
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Judaism
Judaism (יַהֲדוּת|translit.
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Kateb Yacine
Kateb Yacine (2 August 1929 or 6 August 1929 – 28 October 1989) was an Algerian writer notable for his novels and plays, both in French and Algerian Arabic, and his advocacy of the Berber cause.
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Khaled (musician)
Khaled Hadj Ibrahim (خالد حاج إبرهيم,; born 29 February 1960), better known by his mononym Khaled (خالد), is an Algerian raï singer, musician and songwriter.
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Lebanon
Lebanon (Lubnān), officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.
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Leptis Magna
Leptis or Lepcis Magna, also known by other names in antiquity, was a prominent city of the Carthaginian Empire and Roman Libya at the mouth of the Wadi Lebda in the Mediterranean.
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Libya
Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
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Libyan Arabic
Libyan Arabic (Lībī), also called Sulaimitian Arabic by scholars, is a variety of Arabic spoken in Libya, and neighboring countries.
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List of Algerian writers
This is a list of notable Algerian writers.
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List of Egyptians
The following is a list of some of the notable Egyptians inside and outside of Egypt.
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List of Roman Latin poets and writers from North Africa
This is a list of Roman Latin poets and writers from North Africa.
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M'Daourouch
M'daourouch is a commune in Souk Ahras Province, Algeria, occupying the site of the Berber-Roman town of Madauros in Numidia.
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Maghreb
The Maghreb (lit), also known as the Arab Maghreb (اَلْمَغْرِبُ الْعَرَبِيُّ) and Northwest Africa, is the western part of the Arab world.
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Maghrebi Arabic
Maghrebi Arabic (as opposed to Eastern or Mashriqi Arabic), often known as ad-Dārija (الدارجة, meaning 'common/everyday ') to differentiate it from Literary Arabic, is a vernacular Arabic dialect continuum spoken in the Maghreb.
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Malek Bennabi
Malek Bennabi (1 January 1905 – 31 October 1973) (translit) was an Algerian writer and philosopher, who wrote about human society, particularly Muslim society with a focus on the reasons behind the fall of Muslim civilization.
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Maliki school
The Maliki school or Malikism (translit) is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam.
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Mauritania
Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast, Mali to the east and southeast, and Senegal to the southwest. By land area Mauritania is the 11th-largest country in Africa and 28th-largest in the world; 90% of its territory is in the Sahara.
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Middle East
The Middle East (term originally coined in English Translations of this term in some of the region's major languages include: translit; translit; translit; script; translit; اوْرتاشرق; Orta Doğu.) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.
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Middle East and North Africa
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA), also referred to as West Asia and North Africa (WANA) or South West Asia and North Africa (SWANA), is a geographic region which comprises the Middle East and North Africa together.
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Mizrahi Jews
Mizrahi Jews (יהודי המִזְרָח), also known as Mizrahim (מִזְרָחִים) or Mizrachi (מִזְרָחִי) and alternatively referred to as Oriental Jews or Edot HaMizrach (עֲדוֹת־הַמִּזְרָח), are terms used in Israeli discourse to refer to a grouping of Jewish communities that lived in the Muslim world.
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Modern Standard Arabic
Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Modern Written Arabic (MWA) is the variety of standardized, literary Arabic that developed in the Arab world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and in some usages also the variety of spoken Arabic that approximates this written standard.
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Mohamed ElBaradei
Mohamed Mostafa ElBaradei (Muḥammad Muṣṭafá al-Barādaʿī,; born 17 June 1942) is an Egyptian law scholar and diplomat who served as the vice president of Egypt on an interim basis from 14 July 2013 until his resignation on 14 August 2013.
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Mohammed Dib
Mohammed Dib (محمد ديب; 21 July 1920 – 2 May 2003) was an Algerian author.
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Morisco
Moriscos (mouriscos; Spanish for "Moorish") were former Muslims and their descendants whom the Catholic Church and Habsburg Spain commanded to forcibly convert to Christianity or face compulsory exile after Spain outlawed Islam.
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Moroccan Arabic
Moroccan Arabic (translit), also known as Darija (الدارجة or الداريجة), is the dialectal, vernacular form or forms of Arabic spoken in Morocco.
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Morocco
Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
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Mosque
A mosque, also called a masjid, is a place of worship for Muslims.
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Muqaddimah
The Muqaddimah (مقدّمة "Introduction"), also known as the Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun (مقدّمة ابن خلدون) or Ibn Khaldun's Prolegomena (Προλεγόμενα), is a book written by the historian Ibn Khaldun in 1377 which presents a view of universal history.
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Music of Algeria
Algerian music is virtually synonymous with Raï among foreigners; the musical genre has achieved great popularity in France, Spain and other parts of Europe.
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Music of Sudan
The rich and varied music of Sudan has traditional, rural, northeastern African roots and also shows Arabic, Western or other African influences, especially on the popular urban music from the early 20th century onwards.
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Music of Tunisia
Tunisia is a North African country with a predominantly Arabic-speaking population.
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Muslim world
The terms Muslim world and Islamic world commonly refer to the Islamic community, which is also known as the Ummah.
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Muslims
Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.
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Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha (نجيب محفوظ عبد العزيز ابراهيماحمد الباشا,; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Neolithic Revolution
The Neolithic Revolution, also known as the First Agricultural Revolution, was the wide-scale transition of many human cultures during the Neolithic period in Afro-Eurasia from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement, making an increasingly large population possible.
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Nile
The Nile (also known as the Nile River) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa.
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Nomad
Nomads are communities without fixed habitation who regularly move to and from areas.
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North Africa
North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.
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Omar Sharif
Omar Sharif (عمر الشريف, born Michel Yusef Dimitri Chalhoub; 10 April 1932 – 10 July 2015) was an Egyptian actor, generally regarded as one of his country's greatest male film stars.
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Opera
Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.
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Oran
Oran (Wahrān) is a major coastal city located in the northwest of Algeria.
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Presbyterianism
Presbyterianism is a Reformed (Calvinist) Protestant tradition named for its form of church government by representative assemblies of elders.
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Province of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan
The Province of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan, formerly known as the Episcopal Church of Sudan, is a province of the Anglican Communion located in South Sudan.
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Raï
Raï (راي), sometimes written rai, is a form of Algerian folk music that dates back to the 1920s.
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Rachid Mimouni
Rachid Mimouni (In Arabic:رشيد ميموني) (20 November 1945 – 12 February 1995) was an Algerian writer, teacher and human rights activist.
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Red Sea
The Red Sea is a sea inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia.
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Refugee
A refugee, conventionally speaking, is a person who has lost the protection of their country of origin and who cannot or is unwilling to return there due to well-founded fear of persecution. Such a person may be called an asylum seeker until granted refugee status by a contracting state or by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) if they formally make a claim for asylum.
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Republic
A republic, based on the Latin phrase res publica ('public affair'), is a state in which political power rests with the public through their representatives—in contrast to a monarchy.
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Saad Zaghloul
Saad Zaghloul Pasha (سعد زغلول /; also Sa'd Zaghloul Pasha ibn Ibrahim) (July 1857 – 23 August 1927) was an Egyptian revolutionary and statesman.
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Sahara
The Sahara is a desert spanning across North Africa.
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Sahel
The Sahel region or Sahelian acacia savanna is a biogeographical region in Africa.
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Sahrawis
The Sahrawis, or Sahrawi people (صحراويون), are an ethnic group native to the western part of the Sahara desert, which includes the Western Sahara, southern Morocco, much of Mauritania, and along the southwestern border of Algeria.
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Secondary sector of the economy
In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing.
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Senusiyya
The Senusiyya, Senussi or Sanusi (translit) are a Muslim political-religious Sufi order and clan in Libya and surrounding regions founded in Mecca in 1837 by the Grand Sanussi (السنوسي الكبير as-Sanūssiyy al-Kabīr), the Algerian Muhammad ibn Ali al-Sanusi.
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Sephardic Jews
Sephardic Jews (Djudíos Sefardíes), also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal).
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Service (economics)
A service is an act or use for which a consumer, company, or government is willing to pay.
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Shilha language
Shilha (from its name in Moroccan Arabic), now more commonly known as Tashelhiyt, Tachelhit (from the endonym), is a Berber language spoken in southwestern Morocco.
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Spain
Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.
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Standard Moroccan Amazigh
Standard Moroccan Amazigh, also known as Standard Moroccan Tamazight or Standard Moroccan Berber, is a standardized language developed by the Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture (IRCAM) in Morocco by combining features of Tashelhit, Central Atlas Tamazight, and Tarifit, the three major Amazigh languages in Morocco.
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Sudan
Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa.
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Sunni Islam
Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.
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Tahar Djaout
Tahar Djaout (11 January 1954 – 2 June 1993) was an Algerian journalist, poet, and fiction writer.
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Tarifit
Tarifit Berber, also known as Riffian or locally as Tamazight (italics) is a Zenati Berber language spoken in the Rif region in northern Morocco.
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Thagaste
Thagaste (or Tagaste) was a Roman-Berber city in present-day Algeria, now called Souk Ahras.
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Tindouf
Tindouf (translit) is the main town, and a commune in Tindouf Province, Algeria, close to the Mauritanian, Western Saharan and Moroccan borders.
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Tindouf Province
Tindouf, also written Tinduf (ولاية تندوف), is the westernmost province of Algeria, having a population of 58,193 as of the 2008 census (not including the Sahrawi refugees at the Sahrawi refugee camps).
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Tower block
A tower block, high-rise, apartment tower, residential tower, apartment block, block of flats, or office tower is a tall building, as opposed to a low-rise building and is defined differently in terms of height depending on the jurisdiction.
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Tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group.
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Tripoli, Libya
Tripoli (translation) is the capital and largest city of Libya, with a population of about 1.183 million people in 2023.
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Tunis
Tunis (تونس) is the capital and largest city of Tunisia.
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Tunisia
Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is the northernmost country in Africa.
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Tunisian Arabic
Tunisian Arabic, or simply Tunisian, is a variety of Arabic spoken in Tunisia.
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Umm Kulthum
Umm Kulthum (4 May 1904 – 3 February 1975) was an Egyptian singer, songwriter, and film actress active from the 1920s to the 1970s. She was given the honorific title ("Star of the Orient"). Immensely popular throughout the Arab World, Kulthum is a national icon in her native Egypt; she has been dubbed "The Voice of Egypt" and "Egypt's Fourth Pyramid".
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
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United Nations Statistics Division
The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), formerly the United Nations Statistical Office, serves under the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) as the central mechanism within the Secretariat of the United Nations to supply the statistical needs and coordinating activities of the global statistical system.
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Wafd Party
The Wafd Party (حزب الوفد, Ḥizb al-Wafd) was a nationalist liberal political party in Egypt.
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Western culture
Western culture, also known as Western civilization, European civilization, Occidental culture, or Western society, includes the diverse heritages of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, artifacts and technologies of the Western world.
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Western Sahara
Western Sahara is a disputed territory in North-western Africa.
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Yemen
Yemen (al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen, is a sovereign state in West Asia.
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2011 Moroccan constitutional referendum
A referendum on constitutional reforms was held in Morocco on 1 July 2011, called by the king in response to a series of protests across Morocco that began on 20 February 2011 when over ten thousand Moroccans participated in demonstrations demanding democratic reforms.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_North_Africa
Also known as Culture of North African, North African culture.
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