Intangible heritage as a social construction of authenticity: the example of Tunisian cuisine by Wadie Othmani

“…This article offers a geographical study of the culinary heritage of Tunisia, a North African country in the Maghreb region, whose economy is strongly supported by the tourism sector. …”
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Bagnards, « arabes » et porte-clefs en Guyane : Naissance et usages d’un rôle pénal et colonial (1869-1938) by Marine Coquet

“…Depending on the year, between 20% and 60% of convicts transported to French Guiana were from France’s North African colonies and categorized as “Arabs.” Statistics recorded for organizational purposes by the penal administration make possible a study of “Arabs” in French Guiana. …”
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Relating Ø/to/in the desert: Scottish World War II Poets in North Africa and the Middle-East by Stéphanie NOIRARD

“…The last part turns to human landscapes and examines relationship within the 8th Army and the strong affinities Scottish poets felt towards German simple soldiers or North African civilians.…”
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From the Other Shore: Exploring Home and Spatial Duality in Leïla Sebbar’s Le silence des rives (Silence on the Shores) by Nassima Amirouche

“… The duality of here and there is a recurring motif in Maghrebian exile literature, which revolves around the experiences of North African immigrants who reside in Europe. This dualistic framework underscores the sense of displacement and cultural alienation that many immigrants experience in their new homes, as they find themselves straddling two cultures and struggling to find a sense of belonging in either of them. …”
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Faouzi Laatiris : fugues chimériques dans la mondialisation by Morad Montazami

“…How can one relocate this key figure of globalized contemporary art, taking Morocco as a starting point but extending him to a transcultural art history, both local and global (both European and Arab, both North African and African more generally, eventually Mediterranean)? …”
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Les territoires de l’alcool à Tunis et à Casablanca sous la période des Protectorats (1912-1956) : Des destins parallèles ? by Nessim Znaien

“…This chronology, specific to North African colonies, reflects more the Empire’s comprehensive management policies set forth by the French at that time.…”
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The Book Review of “Perilous Power: The Middle East and US Foreign Policy” by Hassan Ahmadian

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Provenance of late Pleistocene loess in central and eastern Europe: isotopic evidence for dominant local sediment sources by K. Fenn, I. L. Millar, A. Bird, D. Veres, Doris Wagner

“…The results dispute the commonly held assumption that the Sahara was a sediment contributor to loess in central-eastern Europe as North African contributions are not needed to explain loess signatures. …”
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Sexualités au Maghreb by Valérie Beaumont, Corinne Cauvin Verner, François Pouillon

“…While refusing to adopt the “Orientalist” perspective (Arab-Islamic sexuality explained by the sacred texts) the “culturalist” perspective (a specifically North African way of configuring sexuality), the “moralist” perspective (societies being menaced by political islam or the “corrupted West”) and the “activist” perspective (as a defence of individual freedom, notably sexual, feminism, or political Islam), these contemporary ethnographies recreate the tensions between individualism and community ethos, between national and local dictates, between western ethics and religious proscription, all of these attracting considerable media coverage. …”
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Mixed Botryoid and Spindle Cell Bladder Rhabdomyosarcoma: An Outstanding Pediatric Case by Tommaso Alterio, Roberto Chimenz, Salvatore Arena, Giovanni Conti, Sabrina Cardile, Carmelo Romeo, Carmelo Salpietro, Carmelo Fede

“…We report a case of a 3-year-old North African child, initially assessed for nonspecific urinary symptoms such as haematuria and burning urination. …”
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Putting Africa on the Black Death map: Narratives from genetics and history by Monica H. Green

“…That it reached the Islamic North African littoral has never been in question: there is ample testimony from Arabic documentary sources for its devastating effects from Egypt to the Maghreb. …”
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Mobilisations collectives et femmes immigrées en France by Sylvie Thiéblemont-Dollet

“…On the one hand, this paper analyzes the networks of interdependence and “contagion” between these actresses with identical racial origins, as these women express a feeling of exclusion and associate their status — whether social (unemployment, poorly-qualified jobs), ethnic (North African or African origins) or spatial (suburban housing estates, suburbs, districts with tough reputation) — with the same stigma that relegates them to a discriminatory universe. …”
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L’agrobiodiversité du dattier (Phoenix dactylifera L.) dans l’oasis de Siwa (Égypte) by Vincent Battesti

“…This paper is the first step of a two-stage work; the second, within an interdisciplinary research project, will examine samples of these date palms through morphometry of seeds and genetic structure of landrace populations to deepen the analysis of the date palm agrobiodiversity in Siwa, at the North African and Middle Eastern crossroads.…”
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A Y-chromosome portrait of the population of Jerba (Tunisia) to elucidate its complex demographic history by Franz Manni, Pascal Leonardi, Étienne Patin, Alain Berrebi, Houssein Khodjet el Khil, Karl Skorecki, Dror Rosengarten, Hassan Rouba, Evelyne Heyer, Marc Fellous

“…Since geographic isolation plays no role, the different allelic profiles of the three ethnic groups are related to their different geographic origins, which are likely to have been maintained by the cultural differences existing between Arabs, Berbers and Jews.By comparing the observed haplogroup profiles with 19 reference populations located around the Mediterranean basin, we confirm a North African origin for the Berber and Arab sample and a Middle Eastern ancestral population for Jerban Jews.…”
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Mediterranean refugee traffic: main routes and problems of control by Vasily D. Ostanin-Golovnya, Anna A. Pavliukova

“…But, on the other hand, the European Union is actively developing cooperation with North African countries to prevent illegal migration, but different methods are used for this: strengthening the coast guard, allocating funds from the EU budget and individual countries «to combat illegal migration», developing a circular migration program aimed at attracting migrants for seasonal work. …”
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An Improved Solar Cooling System for Date Safety and Storage under Climate of the Maghreb by Benameur Afif, Boualem Merabet, Mustafa Inc, Younes Menni, Sameer Alsharif, Ahmed Althobaiti, Ayman A. Aly

“…Maghreb countries have launched international tenders for large-scale solar power projects, confirming north African countries’ goals to become green-power leaders, by enforcing renewable energy development policies. …”
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PARADOXES OF ARAB POLITICAL SYSTEMS CHANGES by V. A. Kusnetsov

“…Therefore, the author (enhances the theoretical framework), identifying three models of political transformation in the Arab world: the Levant-Iraqi, North African and Gulf-Libyan models. Each of these models is organized in its own way, not only in socio-political terms, but also has been developing according to its own logic over the past several decades. …”
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Showcasing Emptiness? Voicing Redemption Through ‘Saharomania’ in the French Literary Imaginary by Amina Zarzi

“…The Napoleonic campaigns paved the way for French metropolitan travellers, military officers and literary authors to roam the barren stretches of North African deserts. Initially, imperial expansion was what brought French explorers to these lands. …”
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Mapping maternal and infant health in Morocco: A global scoping review of themes, gaps, and the "unseen" in the published health research literature, 2000-2022. by Ellen Amster, Ghazal Jessani, Gauri Gupta, Oksana Hlyva, Charlene Rae

“…This scoping review offers an analytic synthesis of maternal and infant health (MIH) research in the low-middle income North African Islamic country of Morocco over 22 years, a mapping of the themes, research gaps, geographies, and methodologies, 2000-2022. …”
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Prevalence of Latent Tuberculosis Infection in the Middle East and North Africa: A Systematic Review by Mazin Barry

“…Data on the prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in Middle Eastern and North African countries are scarce. We aimed to review all relevant published data in countries belonging to this region to determine the overall prevalence of LTBI in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. …”
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