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The countries of the Maghreb share many cultural similarities and traditions. Among these is a culinary tradition that Habib Bourguiba defined as Western Arab, where bread or couscous are the staple foods, as opposed to Eastern Arab, where bread, crushed wheat or white rice are the staple foods.
African countries in the Maghreb region of North Africa; Subcategories. This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total. ...
The Maghreb region Otherwise known as the western portion of Northern Africa, these countries form the Arab Maghreb Union, [5] established in 1989. The region was established with the goal of functioning as a unified political and economic grouping.
A 2003 World Bank study stated: "In World Bank geographic classification, the following 21 countries or territories constitute the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates [UAE]), and 15 other countries or territories: Algeria ...
Maghreb: Abdelmadjid Tebboune: President of Algeria: 19 December 2019 Nadir Larbaoui: Prime Minister of Algeria: 11 November 2023 Bahrain: Arabian Peninsula: Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa: King of Bahrain: 6 March 1999 Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa: Prime Minister of Bahrain: 11 November 2020 Comoros: Indian Ocean [1] Azali Assoumani: President of the ...
As the word Mashriq refers to Arab countries located between the Mediterranean Sea and Iran, it is the companion term to Maghreb (Arabic: المغرب), the western half of the Arab world comprising Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and western Libya. Libya may be regarded as straddling the two regions.
Morocco, [d] officially the Kingdom of Morocco, [e] is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to the east, and the disputed territory of Western Sahara to the south.
Maghrebi Arabs (Arabic: العرب المغاربة, romanized: al-‘Arab al-Maghariba) or North African Arabs (Arabic: عرب شمال أفريقيا, romanized: ‘Arab Shamal Ifriqiya) are the inhabitants of the Maghreb region of North Africa whose ethnic identity is Arab, whose native language is Arabic and trace their ancestry to the tribes of the Arabian Peninsula. [1]