Maghrebi

I'm English and live in France but almost all my friends are French no sending home for baked beans and I have been making a point of asking my friends of Maghrebi and Algerian origin what they think might happen if people really mobilized on a major scale.

Hopes and fears: an Algiers diary | Karima Bennoune 2011

The aggregator Berberus, attempted a study about Maghrebi blogs with Google Page Ranks (PR) superior than PR = 4.

Global Voices in English » Morocco: The Blogoma’s Journey Continues 2009

However, if counted with the “Arabo-Berbers,” the Amazigh-ancestry population may be about 70 percent or more of the entire Maghrebi population.

The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010

Rabbi Abraham boarded a ship that was bound for Salé, on the Maghrebi shore.

Archive 2009-12-01 Megan Arkenberg 2009

Rabbi Abraham boarded a ship that was bound for Salé, on the Maghrebi shore.

Ruby Megan Arkenberg 2009

In Jerusalem the Maghrebi women dominated the marketplace with their work, grinding wheat and sifting flour; however, “because of the great poverty and costs, it is not enough even to cover their needs and they are left wanting” (Montefiore Archives, ms 531).

Widows in the North African Jewish Communities of Late Ottoman Palestine. 2009

In Jerusalem alone there were over one thousand Jewish widows in 1875, including some two hundred in the Maghrebi community.

Widows in the North African Jewish Communities of Late Ottoman Palestine. 2009

Not long after this, violence against the Jews of Fez began to swell, as it periodically did, and Rabbi Abraham traded the second stone for passage across the Maghrebi desert to the city of Tlemcen.

Archive 2009-12-01 Megan Arkenberg 2009

One notation on the 1855 census of Maghrebi widows in Jerusalem notes that “all the widows came with their husbands … however, much to our distress, they … died” (Montefiore Archives, ms 531).

Widows in the North African Jewish Communities of Late Ottoman Palestine. 2009

But the fascinating thing was that everyone spoke three or four different languages: Maghrebi, the Moroccan dialect of Arabic; classical Arabic, the kind one heard on the news; French or Spanish, the colonial tongues; one of the three dialects of Tamazight (Berber); and, increasingly, English (the language of Business).

Nowhere’s Vernacular : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007