Flashcards in MIDTERM Deck (34)
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1
What countries are in the Maghreb?
- Morocco
- Algeria
- Tunisia
- Libya
- Mauritania
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What is the nickname of the Maghreb
The "Berber" countries
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Morocco in Arabic
المغرب
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MOROCCO: الإسم الكامل:
المملكة المغربية
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Moroccan العاصمة
الرباط
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What is the Maghreb/what does it mean?
Northwestern Africa/westernmost place
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Is Morocco liberal?
Yes
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51% universities female, 20% judges
Morocco
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Berber required in high school
Morocco
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Northern most tip of which country speak Spanish
Morocco
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15% habitable, 85% desert
Algeria
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30% berber
algeria
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Conservative + not open to foreigners
Algeria
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Militant state
Tunisia
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cosmopolitan
tunisia
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no stable government
Libya
17
Pariah
Libya
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10th largest oil reserve in world
Libya
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Most recent
Maur.
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under sanctions for human rights violations
Maur
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40% below poverty
Jordan
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water shortage + #1 income from tourism
Jordan
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70% muslim (51 shia, 49 sunni), fashionable, Paris of middle east
Lebanon
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90% muslim, 3% druze, 7% christian, 1st to publicly denounce Iraq
Syria
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25% Kurdish population
Iraq
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1990: Hussein invaded
Kuwait
27
religion constitution, Riyadh, mecca, jad--da, medina
saudi
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700k ppl, most westernized, fishing, mostly shia
Bahrain
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RICHEST ARAB COUNTY, Education city
QAtar
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pirate coast- trucial states, burj khalifa, women veiled + cant vote, 0% under poverty level
UAE
31
shipbuilders, progressive
Oman
32
birthplace of alqaeda, 2nd poorest, mud buildings,
yemen
33
7% arable land, 91% below poverty level
sudan
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