Les Massūfa dans l’Ouest saharien au XIVe siècle, une souveraineté transsaharienne by Hadrien Collet

“…In the 14th century, West Africa presented a stable political landscape comprised of large sultanates. However, between North Africa and the Sahel, the Sahara is still seen as an area lacking political organizations of any worth, and the nomadic powers are still far from being seen as legitimate authorities over their own territories. …”
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La prostitution à Beyrouth sous le mandat français (1920-1943) by Nessim Znaien

“…It offers a comparative perspective of public health policies toward prostitution in Beyrouth, North Africa and Indochina. The aim of theses policies was to control rather than to prohibit public prostitution, using brothels, for example, much as the French did elsewhere in mainland France or in the French Empire. …”
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Salida, tránsito, destierro : una aproximación al imaginario transnacional de los jóvenes by Chabier Gimeno-Monterde

“…Since 2007 we have been analyzing the symbolic imagery of young people from North Africa who migrate alone to Aragon and Southwestern France. …”
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Climate Change Impact on Cereal Production in Northern Africa: A Comprehensive Modeling and Control Approach by Sabrina De Nardi, Claudio Carnevale, Sara Raccagni, Lucia Sangiorgi

“…This study integrates a data-driven downscaling system within an emission control framework aimed at controlling temperature anomalies by reducing CO2 emissions and evaluating its impact on cereal production in North Africa. The approach employs a simplified autoregressive model with exogenous input (ARX) for downscaling. …”
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Retour de l’absent by Claire Demesmay, Sabine Russ-Sattar, Katrin Sold

“…In the following article we explore the impact of the events of 2011 in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) on Arab diasporas. This exploratory case study of the Tunisian expatriate communities in the immediate aftermath of the turmoil maps the changes in their associative networks and activities in France, Italy and Germany - the three principal European destinations for Tunisian migrants. …”
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Late Neolithic tethering or trapping stones from Bargat el-Shab (Western Desert of Egypt). Function and meaning by Przemysław Bobrowski, Maciej Jórdeczka

“…This paper focuses on stones found in the southern zone of the Western Desert of Egypt and discusses their function and significance in the broader context of North Africa.…”
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Tlemcen-Touat-Tombouctou : un réseau transsaharien de diffusion du mālikisme (fin viii/xive-xi/xviie siècle) by Elise Voguet

“…Benefiting from the development of Tlemcen and the rise of Timbuktu, the Touat (in south-west of present-day Algeria) was, from the end of the VIII/XIV century, one of the main stages on the roads linking North Africa (including Mamluk Egypt) to sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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Internationalizing the National University by Elizabeth Buckner

“…Abstract This article, which is a translated excerpt from the book Degrees of Dignity: Arab Higher Education in the Global Era, focuses on internationalization of higher education in the Arab Middle East and North Africa. It puts recent transformations in Gulf countries in perspective historically and regionally. …”
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الطباعة بالحروف المتحرکة فى الشرق الاوسط by د.شعبان خلیفة

“…Arabic printing in North Africa.9. Arabic printing in India.10.Sample pages illustrating all stages of Arabic printing through1500-1950.…”
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Le mouvement protestataire algérien de 2019 à la lumière de la théorie des mouvements sociaux et des Printemps arabes by Frédéric Volpi

“…Although these analytical perspectives were only recently systematically applied to the Middle East and North Africa, their methodological and analytical tools bring some useful insights on events like the current wave of mobilization in Algeria. …”
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Les protestations populaires à l’assaut des régimes autoritaires : une « révolution » pour les sciences sociales ? by Vincent Geisser

“…What Beyond the contradictory debates held in social science circles on the future of protest movements in North Africa, researchers tend to err on the same point: they focus on the short-term ( protest cycle, repression, standardization), whereas the movements they analyze are specifically part of a long-term process, in which current upheavals are only one episode. …”
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Des femmes dans la France combattante pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale : Le Corps des Volontaires Françaises et le Groupe Rochambeau by Elodie Jauneau

“…As early as 1940, several hundred women joined the Free French Army’s ranks in London, but also in North Africa (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia). They enlisted in the three army corps and were present in most services. …”
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Atteintes pathologiques de Nazlet Khater 2 et activité minière au début du Paléolithique supérieur en Egypte by Sébastien Villotte, Isabelle Crevecoeur

“…The Nazlet Khater 2 (NK 2) skeleton, discovered in 1980 in Egypt, constitutes the oldest early Upper Palaeolithic modern human remains from North Africa. The association of this individual with the mining site of Nazlet Khater 4 (NK 4) provides a unique opportunity to understand the arthritis and enthesopathy lesions of this individual within a well-defined archaeological context. …”
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Predicting the Global Distribution of <i>Nitraria</i> L. Under Climate Change Based on Optimized MaxEnt Modeling by Ke Lu, Mili Liu, Qi Feng, Wei Liu, Meng Zhu, Yizhong Duan

“…The <i>Nitraria</i> L. plants are currently found mainly in Central Asia, North Africa, the neighboring Middle East, and parts of southern Australia and Siberia. …”
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Dry Deposition from Sahara Sources Regions of Western Africa by B. Douaiba, A. Azzi, A. Khorsi, A. Benlefki

“…The results have been compared with surface data from weather stations in North Africa, data of dry metals from stations located in Gran Canaria, and various satellite images such as European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer for the period in question.…”
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Storia e significati della Nerezza nel Sud della Tunisia: per una nuova prospettiva by Marta Scaglioni

“…Analysing race in the Tunisian South as a sedimented concept which stems from contingent historical trajectories, I delineate a new perspective for the study of race in Tunisia and in North Africa at large.…”
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La numérotation des cahiers et la foliotation dans les manuscrits arabes datés jusqu'à 1450 by Marie-Geneviève Guesdon

“…Some practices were followed in North Africa where the numbering of quires was less frequent whereas this appears relatively early in Christian manuscripts from the Near East - this was probably in relation to Syriac or Coptic traditions. …”
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Aux origines de l’immigration marocaine en Midi-Pyrénées by Arthur Baylac

“…With decolonization, the Garonne basin area received a migrant population from North Africa which is sometimes wrongly perceived as undifferentiated. …”
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Phylogenetic relationships and genetic diversity of Tunisian maize landraces. by Mohamed Dhia Eddine Hammami, Delphine Madur, Zayneb Kthiri, Agustin Galaretto, Stéphane D Nicolas, Alain Charcosset, Valérie Combes, Chahine Karmous, Pedro Revilla

“…These germplasm groups could be the basis for studying heterotic patterns and sample maize germplasm from Tunisia and North Africa in general. The Tunisian maize germplasm could be a basis for identifying sources of favorable alleles to improve tolerance to abiotic stresses.…”
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Insights into Fertility Variability in Africa: A Path Toward Achieving the SDGs by Nelson Doe Dzivor, Alice C. Mensah, Edith Mensah, Moses Odamtten

“…Results: The results of the study show that there are significant differences in the TFR across Africa’s regional blocks (North, West, East, Central, and Southern Africa), with Central and West Africa showing the highest rates and North Africa having the lowest. The results highlight the necessity for region-specific policies to address fertility patterns and their implications for sustainable development. …”
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