Maghreb

I. Overview of Akwa Group: Akwa Group is a Moroccan conglomerate company founded in the 1930s by Ahmed Ouldhadj Akhannouch, and Ali and Jamal Ouakrim. In a context of independance, when Morocco was is need of necessary industries such as the oil sector, Akwa group, called at first Afriquia SMDC (Société Marocaine de Distribution de Carburants), imposed itself like a pillar of the Moroccan economy, in spite of the hostile competition and monopoly of some multinational companies. Conscious of…

al-Qaeda. The word al-Shabaab is an Arabic word meaning youth as is described in the BBC NEWS article. There have been rumors that al-Shabaab also have been linked to other terrorist groups in Africa such as Boko Haram in Nigeria and al-Qaeda in Maghreb. In 2013, it was reported that over 67 people were killed and over 170 were injured in the attack of al-Shabaab at the Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi Kenya (Martinez, 3013). Officials reported it to be the worst terror attack ever happened in…

grenades fired at the Americans in Benghazi, Libya, killing U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other group administrators (Canada, G ). U.S. administrator of state Hillary Clinton said the U.S. assumed that Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, another group associated with Al-Qaeda, arranged the terrorist attack. But in January 2013, rebels went into the southern part of Mali, in the region controlled by the government (Canada, G) . France directed about 2,150 troops to Mali to…

Travel narratives about Morocco constitute an inextricable part of the discursive practices that created and maintained an ontological and epistemological construction of Morocco that made it fit in the homogenous and monolithic Orient. Therefore, one way of proving such a claim is by questioning the image of Morocco and the way the country has been identified from a Western perspective based on a body of produced knowledge, particularly travel narratives, and thus the subject of this essay.…

Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race and Nation by Paul Silverstein, provides ethnography of the Algerian existence in France as well as the transnational Berber movement. Silverstein approaches his subjects through the medium of everyday life, following the random individuals he met during his field work in the 1990s, using an ethnographical methodology with a very critical and self-reflexive alertness of the environment he shared with them. His book is a critical work where it gives a…

ESL-201 Final paper Amber (Xizhao Liu) Language, Race and patriotism It is a fact that many languages vanished in North Africa after the Arab conquest of the Maghreb region, just like native American languages were eliminated because of British colonize, and many languages are still disappearing in Eastern Europe because of Russian imperialism. Some countries, like France, Germany, Japan and China, have already legislated to protect their language and invested money to develop their own…

community has a higher rate of specialized poets (50%) and women (50%) within it. - Just like the main Arabic literature community, the English literature is only constituted from members from the Middle East and does not involve any writer from the Maghreb. In fact, it includes 4 Palestinian people, 3 Lebanese people, and one Egyptian. The significant domination of Palestine in Arab English Literature is mainly explained by the originality of the semantic structures used by these authors to…

Introduction After the September 11th attacks, the Bush Administrations War on Terror brought terrorist groups (notably al-Qaeda) to the forefront of the global scene, making the Middle East the site of the 21st-century’s newfound conflict. Ten years later, the death of Osama Bin Laden heralded an end to the supremacy of the al-Qaeda core and its leadership, yet began the threat of affiliate groups to al-Qaeda, and the new radical group ISIS. Despite most affiliates inability to launch…

Arabia Apocalypse Introduction The apocalypse myth is a commonality in the human cultural collective – the idea of a catastrophe which marks the end of the world as we humans know it. Deviating from the common idea of apocalypse, the term may also be interpreted as the end of an old world and the birth of a new. Apocalypse designates a failure on the part of humanity and indicates that higher powers are intervening to end such failure. Realistically, apocalypse is a grand representation of the…

Cultural Expertise, Understanding, and Awareness: Libya Edward. K. Kosso ALC 13B3 006-17 Cultural Expertise, Understanding, and Awareness: Libya Libya is a country situated in the Maghreb region of Northern Africa, nearly all of the nation’s land mass is within the Sahara Desert. It’s bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south and Algeria and Tunisia to the west. Tripoli is the Capital city of Libya. According to…