Maghreb

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Synonyms for Maghreb

the region of northwest Africa comprising the Atlas Mountains and the coastlands of Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia

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And what use will this collection be to the new generation of Maghribi scholars of Jewish history, adept at the languages of the region and immersed in its culture, and for whom the question of Muslim-Jewish relations over the centuries presents a real historical challenge, with no simple answers?
Avner Greif famously studied information problems encountered by Maghribi traders in long-distance trade in the 11th century.
The stories appear in their original Maghribi (North African) Arabic script with facing pages of English translation.
Abdou Elimam, linguiste connu, a presente, lors d'une vente-dedicace a la librairie El Ijtihad, son livre [beaucoup moins que] Le maghribi, alias ed-derija, la langue consensuelle du Maghreb [beaucoup plus grand que].
Saudi Oger manager in the Madina area, engineer Naser Maghribi, was quoted by al Okaz , as saying: "I don't know the reason behind the delay in paying employees, and I am one of them and we hear of salary payments to be made in March."
Meanwhile, other examples of scripts influenced by the whereabouts of their development is the Maghribi script, developed in the western countries of North Africa during the Islamic Empire.
Moroccan artists such as Moataz Abou Zouz, Aziz Al Maghribi, Mohamed Adly, Lebanese singers Elissa, Wael Kfoury, Melhem Zein, and numerous world music artists will also be performing with international headliners Sean Paul (Sunday) Avicii (Monday), Sting (Thursday), Usher (Friday) , and Maroon 5 (Saturday) in the nine day festival.
On 23/12 the Associated Press cameraman Iyad Hammad and other 6 journalists: Munjed Jado, Samer Maghribi (PalMedia cameraman), Mahmoud Elayyan, Musa Qawasme, Abdul Hafiz Hashlamoon and Ahmad Mizher suffered suffocation as a result of the Israeli stun and teargas grenades.
Emirati student Yousef Maghribi, 23, said: "I would open a tourism company, but I wouldn't want to be a tour guide myself." FNC members have announced that a proposed law is being drafted to encourage and train Emiratis in becoming tour guides, which will include better incentives.
FORMER Arab World Programme leader for Greenpeace Reem Maghribi has urged governments in the Arab region to have serious renewable energy plans to address environmental crisis in this part of the world.
Ayman bin Abdulrahman Maghribi, said in a statement to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) that 11 Saudi governmental departments will take part in the Book Fair to present a large and distinguished number of publications about the Kingdom's achievements in various fields.
Such a cost saving explanation is put forward to account for the emergence of self-ordering arrangements within groups that are small enough to perform control of their members by other members, like the Maghribi Traders (Greif, 1989), the Law Merchant (Benson, 1989; Milgrom, North and Weingast, 1990), and various professions like lawyers, architects, physicians and pharmacists (Maks and Philipsen, 2005).
-Le denomme "Abou Hamza Al Maghribi" entre les mains de la BNPJ.
Greif provides a detailed account of how multilateral punishment and reputation can act as mechanisms disciplining individuals in relatively large homogeneous groups, such as the Maghribi traders.