The Maghreb, also known as the Greater Maghreb and the Arab Maghreb and Northwest Africa, is the western part of the Arab world. The Maghreb region comprises western and central North Africa, including Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia,...
Al-Qaeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb (Arabic: تنظيم القاعدة في بلاد المغرب الإسلامي, romanized: Tanẓīm al-Qā'idah fī Bilād al-Maghrib al-Islāmī, French: l'Organisation d'Al-Qaïda aux Pays du Maghreb Islamique), or AQIM, is a Salafi-jihadist...
Maroc Telecom (IAM, Arabic: اتصالات المغرب) is a telecommunications company in Morocco. Currently employing around 11,178 employees, it is the largest telecommunications network in the country with 8 regional delegations and 220 offices present...
The Arab migrations to the Maghreb involved successive waves of migration and settlement by Arab peoples in the Maghreb region of North Africa, encompassing modern-day Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia. The process took place over several...
The Arab Maghreb Union (Arabic: إتحاد المغرب العربي Ittiḥād al-Maghrib al-‘Arabī; AMU/UMA) is a political union and economic union trade agreement aiming for economic and future political unity among Arab countries that are located primarily in the...
Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM; Arabic: جماعة نصرة الإسلام والمسلمين; French: Groupe de soutien à l'islam et aux musulmans, GSIM; lit. 'Support Group for Islam and Muslims') is a transnational united front of various Salafi jihadist...
Maghreb Fez (Arabic: المغرب الرياضي الفاسي), commonly known as MAS, is a Moroccan professional football club based in Fez, which competes in the Botola Pro, the top division of the Moroccan football league system. Founded on 16 October 1946 in Fez,...
The Economic History of Morocco reflects the country’s strategic role in Mediterranean trade and its interactions with European powers, particularly from the eighteenth century onward. Moroccan corsair activity led to numerous treaties with European...
Maghrebi Arabs (Arabic: العرب المغاربة, romanized: al-‘Arab al-Maghāriba) or North African Arabs (Arabic: عرب شمال أفريقيا, romanized: ‘Arab Shamāl Ifrīqiyā) are the inhabitants of the Maghreb region of North Africa whose ethnic identity is Arab and...
The Rashidun and Umayyad Caliphates conquered the Byzantine Exarchate of North Africa commencing in 647 and concluding in 709, when the Byzantine Empire lost its last remaining strongholds in the Maghreb to Caliph al-Walid I. The North African...
