• Morocco has limited the amount of earthquake aid allowed into the country and allowed response crews from only four countries - Spain, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar - as well as NGOs. (ap.org)
  • Moreover, the ongoing crackdowns on rights defenders and democracy activists being carried out by Saudi Arabia, Oman and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) were raised before the Council by CIHRS, other international civil society groups, as well as several rights defenders from the Gulf region. (cihrs.org)
  • Pakistan on Monday said it has made it clear to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that Islamabad cannot recognize Israel until a "concrete and permanent settlement" of the Palestinian issue. (turkishpress.com)
  • As per the public statement, United Arab Emirates has now been added to the list of Jurisdictions under Increased Monitoring and Zimbabwe has been removed from this list based on the decision made at the March 04, 2022 FATF plenary. (org.in)
  • The foreign ministers of United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco, which normalized ties with Israel in a 2020 U.S. diplomatic drive, attended the summit in Sde Boker - where the founding Israeli prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, is buried. (nbcnews.com)
  • The drama highlights the difficulties for Israel as it tries to build on 2020's landmark Abraham Accords, under which the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco joined Egypt and Jordan in recognizing the country. (yahoo.com)
  • Several news outlets reported that Morocco accepted humanitarian and relief aid from Spain, the United Kingdom, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, but had not responded to offers of assistance from other Western countries, including France, the United States, Italy, Germany and Poland. (trentonmonitor.com)
  • On September 15, 2020, President Donald Trump hosted a historic signing ceremony for the Abraham Accords formally normalizing diplomatic relations between Israel and Arab states - the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Bahrain. (fireside.fm)
  • The Abraham Accords refer to the agreements of diplomatic relations and full normalization between Israel and partner countries including the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan, and Kosovo. (fireside.fm)
  • Since 2020, it has signed US-brokered agreements known as the Abraham Accords normalising relations with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco. (yahoo.com)
  • In 2023, Saudi Arabia and UAE led the initiative to restore Syria's participation in the Arab League, which was initially rejected by Morocco due to Syria's support for the Polisario. (wikipedia.org)
  • Nevertheless, on 7 May 2023, following the decision of the Council of the Arab League to reactivate Syria's membership, foreign minister Nasser Bourita voiced Morocco's support to the efforts made in this regard by Saudi Arabia. (wikipedia.org)
  • Although he stopped short of naming them despite being repeatedly asked whether they were Muslim or non-Muslim countries, many believe Imran Khan was referring to Saudi Arabia and the UAE. (turkishpress.com)
  • Some other Gulf countries, including Saudi Arabia, are also weighing options to normalize relations. (turkishpress.com)
  • This survey concluded that RT Arabic was among the top three most-watched news channels in six Arab countries (Egypt, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the UAE, and Iraq). (marsad-egypt.info)
  • Much of the focus is now on deepening links with Saudi Arabia, the Arab world's biggest economy. (yahoo.com)
  • Some countries were not very accepting of film for a long time, (cinema was not accepted in Saudi Arabia until the 1960's and 70's,) or the government held tight control over production. (arabfilminstitute.org)
  • With the advent of the Arab Spring in 2011 and the collapse of Colonel Qaddafi's rule in Libya, pressure on the country's security forces has grown. (nationalinterest.org)
  • A highlight of the Council was the presentation of the first report of the Special Rapporteur on Truth, Justice, Reparation and Non-recurrence, a theme that is and will remain of core importance to several Arab countries such as Libya and Egypt as they attempt to transition from past authoritarian regimes to democracies. (cihrs.org)
  • It's also the biggest city in the Maghreb-the name for the collective five North African countries, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, and Mauritania as well as the disputed territory of the Western Sahara. (trekkertracks.info)
  • Bloomberg) -- Israel's latest attempt to forge fresh alliances in the Arab world hit a stumbling block in Libya, sparking criticism at home and prompting anti-government protests and the suspension of the North African nation's top diplomat. (yahoo.com)
  • Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, who heads one of two dueling administrations in Libya, appeared to quickly quash Cohen's hopes, referring Mangoush for investigation. (yahoo.com)
  • It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. (absoluteastronomy.com)
  • Libya is an African country in the Maghreb region of North Africa 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. (absoluteastronomy.com)
  • Libya - a strong backer of the Palestinian cause - does not recognise Israel, and the meeting has sparked protests in the majority Arab state. (yahoo.com)
  • Libya has been in turmoil for years, with the country split between the interim, internationally recognised government in Tripoli and a rival one in the east. (yahoo.com)
  • Moroccan-Syrian tensions soon erupted, with Morocco siding with the West and Syria, whilst the United Arab Republic, sided with Algeria during the Sand War. (wikipedia.org)
  • Unlike Morocco and Tunisia, Algeria has been timid about opening itself up to the world. (nationalinterest.org)
  • The human rights situations within Algeria, Bahrain, Morocco and Tunisia were examined within the framework of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). (cihrs.org)
  • Concerning the adoption of UPR outcomes, this session of the Council saw the Human Rights situation in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Bahrain all examined. (cihrs.org)
  • Whereas Bahrain and Algeria accepted the majority of the recommendations that were made, the apparent lack of political will to implement past recommendations is striking, evidenced by the continuing grave rights violations carried out in both countries. (cihrs.org)
  • Many Sahrawi Arabs live in refugee camps in Algeria. (euobserver.com)
  • Young refugees in Algeria camps feel betrayed by EU over Western Sahara, threaten attacks on Morocco, as UN chief Ban Ki-moon makes rare trip to 'forgotten' conflict. (euobserver.com)
  • These efforts were noticed by many around the world and it did not take countries such as Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria long to establish their own theaters. (morocco.com)
  • Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab. (absoluteastronomy.com)
  • Western Sahara is a disputed territory in North Africa, bordered by Morocco to the north, Algeria to the northeast, Mauritania to the east and south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. (absoluteastronomy.com)
  • Bouazizi's death ignited protests in Tunisia that ushered in a pattern of mass demonstrations across the region now widely referred to as the "Arab Spring. (kpcw.org)
  • In countries such as Tunisia and Egypt, revolution did involve some violence, but relatively less than in other Middle Eastern countries. (pressbooks.pub)
  • Talking about having different recipes to fix problems in each individual partner country, if you look at the MENA region some 5-6 years down the road from the Arab Spring revolutions, you will find perhaps only Tunisia and Morocco that could be considered as the success stories. (tunisianmonitoronline.com)
  • Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. (absoluteastronomy.com)
  • Another poster, replying to Kurtzman, defended Turkey as one of only three Muslim countries that maintain diplomatic relations with Israel - presumably referring to Jordan and Egypt as the other two. (islamicpluralism.org)
  • Also there was the foreign minister of Egypt, which in 1979 became the first Arab country to make peace with Israel. (nbcnews.com)
  • Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. (absoluteastronomy.com)
  • Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world. (absoluteastronomy.com)
  • Recent political and discussions with stakeholders and key in crisis and articles referring to non- demographic factors have exposed informants in Jordan. (who.int)
  • Both countries share a common history: they were formerly colonized by the Roman Empire, and later Arab conquests that saw both Morocco and Syria became Arab Muslim countries. (wikipedia.org)
  • Under the tree of Morocco which according to the late King Hassan II has roots deep in Africa, the trunk in the Arab-Muslim world, and the foliage in Europe, [ii] all its children have their place in its umbrage. (timesofisrael.com)
  • A sovereign Muslim State, attached to its national unity and to its territorial integrity, the Kingdom of Morocco intends to preserve, in its plentitude and its diversity, its one and indivisible national identity. (timesofisrael.com)
  • This legal document attests to a successful marriage of traditions, habits, and customs of different cultures: Amazigh, Arab-Muslim, Hassani, Jewish, Andalusian, Mediterranean, and African, giving Morocco a rich and diverse cultural heritage whereby each region has its own particularities contributing to enriching the Moroccan cultural legacy. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Since the Middle Ages, Jewish musical and poetic [vii] practices in the Muslim West have evolved in line with Muslim practices and traditions of music [viii] and poetry, which developed in the Hispanic-Muslim and Arab-Berber cultural areas. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Other Muslim countries, such as Morocco and Oman, have also maintained such back-channel links. (islamicpluralism.org)
  • Last month, the UAE stopped issuing new visas to citizens of 13 mostly Muslim countries. (turkishpress.com)
  • Arab and Muslim are not synonymous or interchangeable. (arabfilminstitute.org)
  • Though a large portion of Arabs are Muslim, there are predominant Christian, Jewish and other religious communities in the Arab world as well. (arabfilminstitute.org)
  • Furthermore, this historic breakthrough led to the Kingdom of Morocco and Muslim majority nations Sudan and Kosovo to join the Abraham Accords. (fireside.fm)
  • Israel is working to build closer ties with Arab and Muslim-majority countries which do not officially recognise it. (yahoo.com)
  • The mass murder happening right now in Sudan, where the Arab Moslem regime is massacring its black Christian citizens, has nothing to do with Israel. (takeapen.org)
  • Indigenous transmission is now limited within four countries: Chad, Mali, Ethiopia and South Sudan, where nine, five, three and five cases were reported, respectively.1 The 22 cases occurred in 20 villages, representing reductions of 83% in cases and 63% in affected villages compared to 2014. (who.int)
  • In 1965, Moroccan King Hassan II allegedly invited Mossad and Shin Bet agents to record the Arab League's meeting in Casablanca, which was instrumental in leading to the Six-Day War and Syrian defeat. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, Syria supported the Polisario against the Moroccans during Western Sahara War from 1975, angering Morocco, which was later admitted by Bashar al-Assad over Syria's efforts to help Polisario militants fighting Royal Moroccan Armed Forces in 2013. (wikipedia.org)
  • While Morocco maintains supportive of Syrian refugees, cases like Syrians trapped between Algerian-Moroccan border also gave concerns to Moroccan authorities. (wikipedia.org)
  • The love that Moroccans of the Jewish faith have for their country of origin all over the world shows that Judaism has never been alien to Morocco, on the contrary, it has for over more than two millennia been an integral part of the culture of the country and still is today, and in spite of the fact that Moroccan Jews have gone to Israel and elsewhere. (timesofisrael.com)
  • It is only in this land that the Moroccan Jewish community offers original perspectives on the interpretation of Jewish life in the land of Islam, unlike in other countries in the immediate and distant environment. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Along the way, the Moroccan team charmed many Arab soccer fans who saw in the team a reflection of themselves, with players waving the Palestinian flag after their wins and celebrating on the field with their mothers and children. (thezimbabwemail.com)
  • It's a sentence I've heard from many Moroccan Berber activists over the years, who were referring to their homelands as 'their country', a Berber nation and not an Arab one. (kifkif.be)
  • At the beginning of the nineties, a small network of Moroccan-born activists began founding associations both in Morocco and abroad, predominantly in urban settings. (kifkif.be)
  • One of the main findings in this research was that the rise of Berber identity politics in Morocco and the diaspora could be explained by trends in both national (Moroccan, Belgian, Dutch) politics and (historical) migration patterns. (kifkif.be)
  • Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant held a phone call with his Moroccan counterpart to express Israel's desire to assist the earthquake-stricken country "as much as is required. (ozarksfirst.com)
  • We are working expeditiously to ensure American citizens in Morocco are safe, and stand ready to provide any necessary assistance for the Moroccan people. (ozarksfirst.com)
  • Performing this evening is Maalema (Master Musician) Hind Ennaira, a Moroccan woman playing her first gnaoua show outside of her native country, alongside desert rock group Bombino. (thequietus.com)
  • The data is collected by arranged interviews with focus groups consisting of university students in Rabat, Morocco, in order to investigate the trends and the extent of the occurrence of French in speech situations where intra- sentential code-switching between colloquial Moroccan Arabic and French is present. (lu.se)
  • People in the streets would mock us with the famous Arab insult, Ya yahudi ya ibn el kalb [Jewish son of a dog], or even more ominously Idbah el-Yahud [slit the throats of the Jews]. (hudson.org)
  • More than that the Moroccans of the diaspora, Muslims, Jews, and even Christians, have always expressed strong love for their country of origin. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Arabs have obviously been saturated with paranoia about Jews, and Pakistanis have come under the spell of Judeophobia thanks to the financial and other penetration of their native country, and its military and intelligence institutions, by Islamist radicals. (islamicpluralism.org)
  • When Arzilla, Morocco, was conquered by Arab raiders, Abrabanel raised the money (donating generously himself) to redeem the 250 Jews from slavery. (njop.org)
  • METHODS: Data were drawn from semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 66 Israelis-including women and men, Arabs and Jews, and religious and non-religious persons-conducted between February 2020 and February 2022. (bvsalud.org)
  • Adopted in 2011, in the context of the Arab Spring, Morocco's new Constitution recognizes the Hebrew component as part of the culture of the kingdom. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Women wearing a Sahrawis traditional outfit celebrate Morocco's World Cup victory against Portugal in the Morocco-administered Western Sahara city of Laayoune, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2022. (thezimbabwemail.com)
  • BEIRUT (AP) - Morocco's fans in the Arab world took the North African team's 2-1 loss to Croatia in Saturday's World Cup third-place playoff philosophically. (thezimbabwemail.com)
  • Morocco's King Mohamed VI promised significant reforms, and the country now has a new constitution. (kpcw.org)
  • IMI N'TALA, Morocco (AP) - The stench of death wafted through the village of Imi N'Tala high up in Morocco's Atlas Mountains, where last week's catastrophic earthquake razed the hamlet's mud-brick buildings and killed dozens of residents. (ap.org)
  • It's politics," he said, referring to Morocco's decision not to accept aid from countries such as the United States and France. (ap.org)
  • Morocco-Syria relations refers to bilateral and political ties between Morocco and Syria. (wikipedia.org)
  • Morocco is represented in Syria through its embassy in Damascus. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, Morocco became an independent kingdom while Syria became part of the Ottoman Empire until both were again together occupied by France. (wikipedia.org)
  • Morocco and Syria established diplomatics relations upon the withdrawal of France from Morocco in 1956. (wikipedia.org)
  • This fervour soon reached Morocco, but unlike Syria, Morocco was able to stand its ground. (wikipedia.org)
  • Since then, Syria had a distrust for Morocco due to its close ties with the West, particularly, the United States and Israel and they often had limited cooperation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Morocco would remain in tensions with Syria throughout the rest of both leaders' reigns, and their relations have little improved since the deaths of both Hafez al-Assad and Hassan II. (wikipedia.org)
  • The outbreak of civil war in Syria once again strained relations, with Morocco supporting the Syrian opposition against the government of Syria and hosting a meeting of anti-Assad coalition members in 2012 and 2013. (wikipedia.org)
  • Bourita recalled the historical ties between Morocco and Syria and affirmed that King Mohammed VI follows closely the Syrian crisis and its impacts on countries of the region. (wikipedia.org)
  • Damascus - Rabat (from 1986) Foreign relations of Syria Foreign relations of Morocco Burke, Edmund (1973). (wikipedia.org)
  • Now, people across the region look at conflict-torn places such as Iraq and Syria, Jane says, "and they see those countries being ripped apart and a lot of them are thinking, 'OK, things aren't so great here but it could get a whole lot worse. (kpcw.org)
  • In an analysis in April for the Middle East Institute, Elene Janadze referred to a survey conducted seven months before Russia's military intervention in Syria. (marsad-egypt.info)
  • The Arab Spring and the war in Syria, in particular, have helped the Kremlin establish dominance in the region through propaganda and fake news. (marsad-egypt.info)
  • The Arab Uprisings: Transforming and Challenging State Power (London: I.B. Tauris, 2015). (jadaliyya.com)
  • It's not that Morocco wasn't touched by the Arab uprisings that swept through the region in 2011. (kpcw.org)
  • The extent of protest has varied widely among these countries, as have the outcomes, but all were based on popular uprisings of the people, who were dissatisfied with their respective government leaders but were unable to create change by less extreme methods. (pressbooks.pub)
  • The games affirmed that the Arab street "supports the Palestinian cause regardless of what their governments do," he said, referring to the Abraham Accord normalization agreements that four Arab countries - including Morocco - signed with Israel in 2020. (thezimbabwemail.com)
  • Unless the occupation ends, Arab normalization meetings are nothing but an illusion and free reward for Israel," Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh told his cabinet on Monday. (nbcnews.com)
  • In recent years, Pakistan's ties with the traditional Gulf allies have taken a hit due to its "neutrality" on several issues, including the war in Yemen and the blockade of Qatar by a Saudi-led Arab alliance. (turkishpress.com)
  • In June 2023, on the sidelines of the 13th conference of Arab ministers of education organized by the ALESCO, Minister of Education Dr. Darem Tabbaa met with his counterpart Chakib Benmoussa. (wikipedia.org)
  • A rescue team recovers the body of a woman who was killed by the earthquake, in the town of Imi N'tala, outside Marrakech, Morocco, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. (whec.com)
  • People drive past a damaged wall of the historic Medina of Marrakech, after after an earthquake in Morocco, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. (ozarksfirst.com)
  • Brahim Aït Blasri inspects the damage of his home in the town of Imi N'tala, outside Marrakech, Morocco, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. (wkbn.com)
  • Children play next to a camp for earthquake survivors in Asni, Morocco, Sept. 13, 2023, following a 6.8 magnitude earthquake Sept. 8, which has claimed the lives of thousands and left thousands of others homeless. (trentonmonitor.com)
  • A significant part of the Abraham Accords is our commitment to stand by our partners during difficult times," Gallant said a in statement Saturday, referring to the U.S.-brokered accords that formalized ties between Israel and some Arab nations. (ozarksfirst.com)
  • Relations were strained further by Hafez al-Assad's decision in 1986 to cut ties with Morocco after Hassan II held a secret meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres. (wikipedia.org)
  • On the newly formed ties with Israel, Khedouri commented, "We must remember that Israel never posed a threat to the Gulf countries or the region. (jewishindependent.ca)
  • From Belgium, it remains directed towards Morocco as an 'imagined homeland' with which it maintains ties. (kifkif.be)
  • Israel and Morocco normalized relations in 2020 and have recently moved to deepen their diplomatic and security ties. (ozarksfirst.com)
  • However, the prospect of reviving peace talks appears dim and the Palestinians have been angered by the warming of ties between Israel and Arab states in the absence of any progress toward the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. (nbcnews.com)
  • It's a potential embarrassment for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who's been striving to expand ties with more Middle Eastern, African and Asian countries. (yahoo.com)
  • In recent years, Israel has pursued formal ties with Arab League countries with which it does not have official relations - from moderate states to historical foes. (yahoo.com)
  • Many EU countries have strengthened their relations with Rabat lately. (euobserver.com)
  • Some Jewish refugees refer to the shattering events as their Nakba, borrowing the oft-repeated Arabic word for "catastrophe. (hudson.org)
  • From the highest level of the State to the little people, through the different strata of society, the Jewish component has always had its place in the house of Morocco. (timesofisrael.com)
  • This study aimed to estimate problem gambling severity in Israeli society, characterize the sociodemographic, environmental, mental health, and gambling-related risk factors associated with problem gambling severity, and examine the role of ethnonational affiliation (Israeli Jewish/Arab) as a moderating factor in the associations between these risk factors and problem gambling severity. (bvsalud.org)
  • Ethnonational affiliation (Israeli Jewish/Arab) moderated the associations between gambling, illegal online gambling, and problem gambling severity. (bvsalud.org)
  • The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), vide public document 'High-Risk Jurisdictions subject to a Call for Action' dated March 04, 2022, has called on its members and other jurisdictions to refer to the statement on these jurisdictions adopted in February 2020. (org.in)
  • The root of the trouble is that this entire Moslem region is totally dysfunctional, by any standard of the word, and would have been so even if Israel would have joined the Arab league and an independent Palestine would have existed for 100 years. (takeapen.org)
  • This gave the EU the necessary flexibility for modulating assistance on the basis of progress made by individual MENA countries. (iemed.org)
  • African-Americans, Arab-Americans, and Pakistani-Americans make up the overwhelming majority in American Islam. (islamicpluralism.org)
  • The total number of scientific publications of 300 million Arabs is less than that of 6 million Israelis. (takeapen.org)
  • Israel is an insightful case to probe problem gambling, given the socio-economic marginalization of Israeli Arabs, the continued exposure of Israelis to stress and the conservative Israeli gambling market. (bvsalud.org)
  • An area comprising the countries of southwest Asia and northeast Africa. (britishexpats.com)
  • Fans in the besieged Gaza enclave found a bitter solace in the fact that the northern Africa Arab country got as far as it did. (thezimbabwemail.com)
  • The term eventually also came to refer to music, a body of Islamic spiritual songs and rituals, as well as a people who were brought over from sub-Saharan Africa to Morocco as part of the slave trade, bringing their traditions with them. (thequietus.com)
  • We performed a literature search in the GIDEON database ( 18 ) for 48 countries and territories of Africa ( Figure 2 ), using "West Nile fever" and country names as keywords. (cdc.gov)
  • We excluded the island countries and territories of Africa from this analysis because WNV probably would be enzootic and independent of the annual movements of migratory birds. (cdc.gov)
  • Few countries can boast of a national identity that is one and indivisible, a unity forged by the convergence of Arab-Islamic, and Amazigh components and which has been nourished and enriched by its African, Andalusian, Hebrew, and Mediterranean tributaries. (timesofisrael.com)
  • At the same time, he identified the flaws of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership that neither contributed to much economic development in the Southern Mediterranean countries, nor to their transition to democracy and the respect of human rights. (jadaliyya.com)
  • [3] To do so, the EU turned to familiar budget lines, such as those comprised in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP), the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) and ENP programmes, and converted these into "Arab Spring assistance. (iemed.org)
  • Aristotelian theories about the climate's effects on the body, deterministic Khaldunian theories of history, and economic and political factors steering African slave trading routes towards the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, the Gulf Peninsula, and the Indian Ocean supported what John Hunwick has referred to as a "religious ethnography," a logic that equated the darkness of an individual's skin with unbelief throughout the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. (pomeps.org)
  • I refer to the entire area between Pakistan and Morocco, which is predominantly Arab, predominantly Moslem, but includes many non-Arab and also significant non-Moslem minorities. (takeapen.org)
  • MESA is primarily concerned with the area encompassing Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Israel, Pakistan, and the countries of the Arab World (and their diasporas) from the seventh century to modern times. (lu.se)
  • The Journal provides original and objective research and analysis, as well as source material, on the area from Morocco to Pakistan. (lu.se)
  • Morocco used the accord to sell goods from occupied territories, which is illegal under international law. (euobserver.com)
  • While Morocco accepted 128 rights recommendations out of the 140 that were made, it is worrying, that many references to human rights violations against Sahrawi people in Western Sahara made by States during the oral review were not reflected in the report. (cihrs.org)
  • Amid an ongoing dispute on the EU-Morocco trade agreement, the Danish parliament on Thursday (2 June) voted unanimously to warn Danish companies and municipalities from trading with Western Sahara. (euobserver.com)
  • Western Sahara is often referred to as Africa's last colony. (euobserver.com)
  • King Mohammed VI said two years ago that "[Western] Sahara will remain a part of Morocco until the end of time. (euobserver.com)
  • A delegation from the European Parliament's Morocco friendship group is visiting Western Sahara on Saturday and Sunday (4 and 5 June) on Rabat's invitation. (euobserver.com)
  • for example, Equatorial Guinea (formerly Spanish Guinea), Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (Western Sahara), and Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). (cdc.gov)
  • Blinken and top diplomats from Israel and four Arab states held a landmark meeting to discuss issues from Iran nuclear talks to the global shockwaves of Russia's Ukraine war. (nbcnews.com)
  • Secret meetings that were never leaked have built relationships that, over the years, turned into historic agreements with countries of the region," he said. (yahoo.com)
  • The agreements have been met with outrage by the Palestinians, who have accused the Arab signatories of betrayal. (yahoo.com)
  • Founded in 1979 by Edward Said and Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, ASQ is one of the oldest journals focusing on Arab peoples and societies. (lu.se)
  • Traditionally, theater in Morocco was performed in open air theaters, but slowly progressed with the opening of theatre buildings. (morocco.com)
  • A rare, powerful earthquake struck Morocco late Friday night, killing more than 600 people and damaging buildings from villages in the Atlas Mountains to the historic city of Marrakech. (ozarksfirst.com)
  • The most serious condition is Severe Combined Immune Deficiency (SCID) often referred to as "Bubble Boy Disease. (prnewswire.com)
  • Throughout the 1990s, commonly referred to as the country's "dark decade," Algeria's heads of counterterrorism and intelligence services ruled, in what some academics say was an "informal" manner, behind the scenes and behind the face of the civilian presidency. (nationalinterest.org)
  • In fact, he is most commonly referred to among scholars simply as "Abrabanel. (njop.org)
  • García told OSV News that Morocco "is a sovereign country like any other" that can "decide for itself what is best. (trentonmonitor.com)
  • 1 Refers to sovereign states. (who.int)
  • These Russian outlets have made false and often preposterous claims, such as that Volodymyr Zelensky had fled his country to Poland, that Russia is, in fact, acting as a protective power for civilians in the war zone, or that the global wheat crisis was caused by the US and EU. (marsad-egypt.info)
  • The 22 member countries of the Arab league, from Mauritania to the Gulf States, have a total population of 300 millions, larger than the US and almost as large as the EU before its expansion. (takeapen.org)
  • To have old and new leaders move in the direction of political reforms, a carrot was dangled in front of partner countries. (iemed.org)
  • There has been an effort to reflect on the lessons learned from our relationships with our partners and I see a number of important points there like A/ focusing on the security reforms in our partner countries, like B/ bringing the Member States in the driving force of many of the programs and projects and so on. (tunisianmonitoronline.com)
  • In Manama, much preparation is underway for the arrival of Israeli tourists to the country. (jewishindependent.ca)
  • I could have shared with you some fascinating facts and some personal thoughts about the Israeli-Arab conflict. (takeapen.org)
  • Yes, there is a 100 year-old Israeli-Arab conflict, but it is not where the main show is. (takeapen.org)
  • Gallant ordered the Israeli military to prepare to provide Morocco with humanitarian aid. (ozarksfirst.com)
  • The main risk factors for problem gambling were being an Israeli Arab, traditional, residing in a low socio-economic cluster, reporting anxiety symptoms, and higher gambling behaviors, specifically in legal/illegal online gambling. (bvsalud.org)
  • Higher neighborhood cohesion emerged as a risk factor for problem gambling solely for Israeli Arabs. (bvsalud.org)
  • Discussion: As an excluded minority, Israeli Arabs may turn to gambling as a method to access the core republican community, thus, exposing themselves to a higher risk of developing problem gambling. (bvsalud.org)
  • NEW YORK , June 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, 60 of the world's leading expert Immunologists from 18 countries in the Middle East convened for an historic three day Scientific Summit on Primary Immunodeficiencies (PI). (prnewswire.com)
  • The (region's) moderates are convening to talk and to form a front against the extremists," Gil Haskel, an official with Israel's Foreign Ministry, told public broadcaster Kan, referring to Iran's hardline Islamist rulers. (nbcnews.com)
  • In spite of many qualities, most academic work published during and after the "Arab Spring" had two drawbacks: it paid insufficient attention to differences among the countries in which people took to the streets and to the specific conditions and history of each of these countries. (jadaliyya.com)
  • The volume breaks new ground as it discusses an issue that previously has not been much debated in the vast literature dedicated to the Arab Spring, nor indeed by the two co-authors and the other contributors. (jadaliyya.com)
  • The volume is of interest to anyone who seeks to understand why the Arab Spring has taken such different turns and why political developments in the various countries, in spite of some similarities, have by no means been identical. (jadaliyya.com)
  • It hardly felt a shudder during the Arab Spring. (nationalinterest.org)
  • The main aim of SPRING was to support selected partner countries in their transition to democracy. (iemed.org)
  • To receive European funding under the SPRING Programme, countries had to commit to establishing deep and sustainable democracies. (iemed.org)
  • 2011. "The Arab Spring Country by County" The National , June 17. (pressbooks.pub)
  • What came in 2009 and 2010 as Arab Spring, it was exactly that reflection of the internal development in a number of countries and an important element in this process was that the people wanted to have more of accountability, better life and recognition of human dignity. (tunisianmonitoronline.com)
  • One of the problems - that we were not able to see the expectations of the people during the Arab Spring revolutions - was exactly that we have sometimes pursued the policy, which ignored the values, the standards, and followed only the interests. (tunisianmonitoronline.com)
  • Follow live updates of a deadly, powerful earthquake that struck Morocco, killing more than 2,000 people and causing widespread damage in and around the city of Marrakesh. (ozarksfirst.com)
  • Morocco has revised upward the death toll from a powerful earthquake that shook Marrakesh and surrounding regions. (ozarksfirst.com)
  • President Joe Biden was among world leaders expressing sadness at the devastation facing the North African kingdom of Morocco after a powerful earthquake shook Marrakesh and its environs and killed more than 1,000 people. (ozarksfirst.com)
  • The massive 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck late at night Sept. 8 is one of the deadliest to strike the country in over half a century. (trentonmonitor.com)
  • Perfect your expertise in Arabic and spend your third year studying or working abroad in an Arabic-speaking country. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • the Kremlin began its program in the Arab world in May 2007 with the launch of RT Arabic. (marsad-egypt.info)
  • The term refers to a group of people who speak Arabic as their first language and are also united by shared history and culture. (arabfilminstitute.org)
  • Where do Black communities indigenous to the Arabic-speaking world fit into what Alex Lubin refers to as the "geographies of liberation" that emerged through the making of an Afro-Arab political imaginary from the 1850s to the present day? (pomeps.org)
  • By emphasizing the unique character of the Berbers as an ethnic group and this group's sameness from within, as well as its difference vis-à-vis others - in this case, particularly Arabs - Berber activists in Morocco and Belgium aim at replacing 'old, possible solidarity bonds' with new bonds that are based on kinship, which are moreover rooted in history. (kifkif.be)
  • This eventually led to them being given permanent status with 85% being of Berber descent and 15% Arab. (thequietus.com)
  • While at first "there wasn't much movement," Father Garcia said referring to relief efforts, on Sept. 11, "we noted the presence of the government. (trentonmonitor.com)
  • The violent death of a fish-seller sparked mass protests this weekend in Morocco - a rare show of dissent for the North African monarchy. (kpcw.org)
  • Morocco had elections and the protests stopped. (kpcw.org)
  • Moroccans represent 6% of The Hague, and 2.32% of the country overall, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics . (thequietus.com)
  • In retrospect, the programme, which ultimately only ran under that name until the end of 2013, showed the limits of an external actor in reforming governance models in the Arab region. (iemed.org)
  • I want to thank The Birgit Rausing Language Programme, for a generous scholarship to make the required field work in Morocco possible. (lu.se)
  • As a core statutory function of the rEsEarch training and FEllowship countries worked at IARC during the Agency, IARC's education and training programmE biennium, which represents a 16.6% programme has made a substantial increase compared with the previous contribution to the development of The programme offers researchers biennium. (who.int)
  • This was one of the many branches of learning of the 19th-century academic art and literature of Western Countries, who were taking a common interest in Oriental themes. (marrakech-riad.co.uk)
  • The investigation of more than 286 rumours in four post-certification countries confirmed no cases of dracunculiasis. (who.int)
  • The Speaker's Office in parliament accused Najla Mangoush of grand treason, and Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah has referred her for investigation. (yahoo.com)
  • Information on IMCI coverage up to mid-2005 has been updated for most countries implementing IMCI in the Region. (who.int)
  • To view information on IMCI coverage by country in the Region, click here . (who.int)
  • Morocco, in particular, has been relatively stable compared with much of the region. (kpcw.org)
  • From 10-28 September, during the 21st Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (the Council), an unprecedented number of governments from the Arab region came under international scrutiny and criticism for committing serious human rights violations. (cihrs.org)
  • As the cultural center of the region, the Municipal Theater Complex in Agadir consists of a number of theaters and exhibition areas which are dedicated to entertaining and educating young and old, local and visitor with regard to the history and culture of Morocco. (morocco.com)
  • Could you perhaps highlight the main developments or factors that have contributed to these two countries to fare much better than the rest of the region? (tunisianmonitoronline.com)
  • Morocco on Thursday officially restored compulsory military service, despite complaints from some young people in the North African country, Trend reports referring to Al Arabiya . (trend.az)
  • WHO continues to provide support to strengthen surveillance in the pre- and post-certification countries, to prepare countries for certification, and to monitor and regularly report on the existing guinea-worm disease situation. (who.int)
  • 1 Prior to South Sudan's independence in 2011, the disease had been endemic in 20 countries. (who.int)
  • Late-onset disease is usually referred to as common variable immunodeficiency (CVID), also described separately. (medscape.com)
  • Arabs account for 5% of the world population and have a high burden of cardiometabolic disease, yet clinical utility of polygenic risk prediction in Arabs remains understudied. (bvsalud.org)
  • In a more modern context, "Orientalist" often refers to the patronising attitudes of Western civilisation towards Middle Eastern, Asian and North African societies. (marrakech-riad.co.uk)
  • I will raise the issue in the Nordic council and the Nordic council of ministers," Juhl said, referring to the cooperation bodies that unite MPs and ministers from Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, in addition to his native Denmark. (euobserver.com)
  • The chapter is based on four years of ethnographic and archival research in Belgium, the Netherlands and Morocco. (kifkif.be)
  • The magnitude 6.8 quake on Friday was the biggest to hit the North African country in 120 years. (ozarksfirst.com)
  • The influence of the Western form of theater only started reaching Morocco many years after the efforts made by Naqqash and Quabbani. (morocco.com)
  • It is quite conspicuous that most of the countries involved in the ENP process seem to have been more stable 10-15 years ago than they are today, so there is an obvious question: What went wrong with the European Neighbourhood Policy? (tunisianmonitoronline.com)
  • Centering this displacement in histories of Afro-Arab solidarity, however, sheds new light on the hydropolitics that shaped the dam's construction as well as on the contradictions abound in Bandung-era politics. (pomeps.org)
  • Both are members of the United Nations, Arab League, and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. (wikipedia.org)
  • The team had already made history, becoming the first Arab and first African team to reach the semifinals in the international soccer tournament. (thezimbabwemail.com)
  • El?Attarine?is?a?fragrance?inspired?by?the?sun,?the?idea?behind?it?being?an?old?one?and?renewed,?dedicated?to?Serge?Lutens?perfume?history?and?Morocco. (parfumsvoordeel.nl)
  • Here you will find a private collection of orientalist paintings, which portray Morocco through the eyes of western artists throughout history . (marrakech-riad.co.uk)
  • The history of Arab film, despite it's delayed onset, is extremely rich. (arabfilminstitute.org)
  • Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) is a quarterly peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by Pluto Journals on the Arabs, their culture, history and institutions. (lu.se)
  • Each contribution in its own way seeks to understand why contestation and regime reaction to contestation differed from country to country. (jadaliyya.com)
  • Blinken has been pressing Arab allies to step up support for Ukraine to fend off Russia's invasion as several Gulf nations have so far stopped short of providing meaningful assistance. (nbcnews.com)