North Africa

Battlefield 1 is a video game created by professional game developers from Dice and EA. This game was released on October 21, 2016 as a first-person shooting game from the battlefields of world war one. Battlefield 1 not only showed the world what the great war was really like, but it taught kids history and experiences of the soldiers who fought in it. Structure Dice and EA produce games after they got feedback from the gaming community. Gamers usually fond of historic events wanted…

Mussolini - Italian dictator whose ill-advised military offensives embroiled Italian and German forces in North Africa; was deposed by coup in July 1943 Tobruk At the same time that war was going on in the European and Pacific theaters, conflict also escalated in North Africa, primarily as a result of Italy’s aggression in the region in 1940 and 1941. One of the primary flash points in North Africa was the key port of Tobruk, Libya, which changed hands between the Germans and the British…

Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa explores French colonization in the Maghreb region of North Africa, specifically: Tunis, Morocco, and Algeria. The book, unlike many of the others that we have read so far in class, focuses almost exclusively on the viewpoint of the controlling colonial power, rather than on the indigenous persons being ruled. Stripped of cultural context, these chapters provided a striking contrast to the narrative presented in the book Medicine and the Saints…

As al-Wazzan approached each new situation, he changed more and more of himself, until finally too much was lost in translation and he found himself unable to return to his life of prestige in North Africa. From childhood through adulthood he lived a life of travel, learning customs, languages, and new laws. He was able to assimilate into cultures so well he even made a career out of it by becoming a diplomat for the city of Fez. However, in the…

the case through the sterotypes that influenced Christian Culture. Islamic and christains religions dew common cultural materials, and both were shaped at the intersection of the Mediterranean Sea and its Adjacent landmasses, extending into Europe, Africa and Southwest Asia. The Clashes were real enough, but they had more to do with similarty than diference, with overlapping ideas, resources, and territorial…

Algeria, an independent country located in north Africa, and is one of the world's top suppliers for oil and gas. After being ruled by France for more than a century, Algeria got their independence in the late 1960s. Since then, Algeria is known to have one of the most dominating governments throughout the world. With a population of over 39 million the country has found themselves in a crisis fighting against Al-Qaeda. (AQIM) Al-Qaeda is recognized as an international terrorist group who is…

Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman government was represented by officials in Oran and Algiers who received protection from Ottoman military garrisons. By the 19th century, Morocco became independent of Ottoman rule under its own sultan. The rest of the North African port cities were ruled by Ottoman deys who faced fairly constant opposition from Berber chiefs who controlled the inland regions. During the…

seen oppressive rule, and have always been independent. (1D) The question, is how do you teach these people as children about colonialism. Has it been easier before or after postcolonialism? This perspective will be examined in the contexts of South Africa, India, and the Middle East. 1st Evidence: (Paraphrase source, summarize source, or quote source) The South African school system has suffered as the hands of apartheid, but Iain Smith of History Today would argue that the country is facing…

world and the functioning of [its] political system depend[s] to a large degree on accruing external revenues that can be classified as rents” (Schwarz 604). Rentier states are heavily concentrated in Latin America, the Middle East, and Sub-Saharan Africa. The similarities of the rentier economies in these three regions vastly outweigh the differences as they are all plagued with the two classic problems all rentier economies face: economic dependence and vulnerability due to the boom and bust…

According to the UN development programme in 2002, the Middle East have witnessed high level of poverty, inequality, and gender gaps. All these factors have caused the Arab Spring. Although we have heard from the west about success stories of Egypt in terms of economic performance, according to the neo-liberal thinkers. However it has been argued that the rise of economy was due to the revolution. This statement can be questioned, as many left wings will argue that since introducing capitalism…