Sentence examples for maghreb from inspiring English sources
proper noun
Northwest Africa, the region of Africa north of the Sahara and west of the Nile. The lands of the Maghreb are generally considered to be the coastal plains of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and western Libya.
Everywhere you went in Paris during the revolt in Tunisia, portable televisions blared at top volume in shops, takeaways and cafes, broadcasting a polyglot, polyphonic babble from Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya and the French-speaking channels from the Maghreb.
During the Ben Ali years, Tunisia was unofficially France's most favoured nation in the Maghreb.
Iraqi veterans have proved dangerous in Saudi, even in Afghanistan and in the Maghreb.
Second, we are yet to see a wave of violence involving veterans of much more longlasting and extensive violence elsewhere in the Maghreb or the core of the Middle East.
Instead, it becomes an unsatisfactory device to bring the reader back from the Maghreb to France to meet the "rioters, wreckers, even the killers of the banlieues" seeking not "reform or revolution" but revenge.
But behind the warm words lie grimmer concerns, the biggest being the entrenchment of terror networks in the al-Qaeda-held Sahel.Islamist fighters tied to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) have ruled a big swathe of northern Mali since March, dividing the country in two.
The writers, who also included Peter Carey and Michael Ondaatje, argued in their letter that the choice of winner was "not simply conveying support for freedom of expression, but also valorising … material that intensifies the anti-Islamic, anti-Maghreb, anti-Arab sentiments already prevalent in the western world".
Related: Charlie Hebdo row leads to Facebook fallout between Salman Rushdie and Francine Prose The letter, printed in full on The Intercept, says that by selecting Charlie Hebdo, PEN is "valorising selectively offensive material: material that intensifies the anti-Islamic, anti-Maghreb, anti-Arab sentiments already prevalent in the western world".
A two-decade-old Islamist insurgency there has adopted the mantle of global jihad and renamed itself al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
See articleTerror strikes againAl-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, an Algerian group affiliated to Osama bin Laden's, claimed responsibility for two car-bombs in Algiers that hospital sources say killed 76 people, including 11 who worked for the United Nations.
Four days before his killing, a terrorist attack in the main square in Marrakech, in Morocco, killed 17 people, eight of them French.Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQMI), an offshoot of bin Laden's movement, is holding four French hostages in Niger; in a recent video they call on France to withdraw from Afghanistan.
