Chinguetti la bibliothèque du désert Chinguetti (Arabic: شنقيط) is a ksour or ancient trading centre in northern Mauritania, lying on the Adrar Plateau east of Atar. Founded in the 13th century, as the center of several trans-Saharan trade routes, this small threatened city continues to attract visitors who admire its spare architecture, exotic scenery and its ancient libraries. The indigenous Saharan architecture of older sectors of the city feature reddish dry stone and mud-brick houses,featuring flat roofs timbered from palms. Many of the older houses feature hand-hewn doors cut from massive ancient acacia tress that have long disappeared from the surroundings. Many homes include courtyards or patios that crowd along narrow streets leading to the central mosque. Notable buildings in the town include The Friday Mosque of Chinguetti,an ancient structure of dry stone featuring a square minaret capped with five ostrich egg finials; the former French Foreign Legion fortress; and a tall watertower. The old quarter of the Chinguetti is home to five important manuscript libraries of scientific and Qur'anic texts, with many dating from the later Middle Ages. The Chinguetti region has been occupied for thousands of years and once was a broad savannah. Cave paintings in the nearby Amoghar Pass feature pictures of giraffes, cows and people in a green landscape quite different from the starkly beautiful sand dunes of the desert landscape found in the region today. The city was ...
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Morocco Population - 31993000 Area - 172414 sq mi (446550 sq km) Ethnicity -60% Berber, 30% Arab, ~10% Spanish, Algerian etc. Official Language - Moroccan Arabic and Berber Continent - Africa -West of Algeria -South of Spain -North of Mauritania Political Status - 3rd World en.wikipedia.org Interesting thing about Morocco is that aside from the merchants that sell goods there and have an agriculture along the Atlantic Ocean, it also has a strip of land known as the 'West Sahara'. This area that lies to the south has no government there whatsoever. It's a free for all land there. It doesn't mean that it's any fun there though. Some of the worst desert climate resides there and so much sand that it actually generates dust plumbs that sweep off coast. The second song hosts West Sahara. The clips in the first song are from Morocco, not the Sahara.
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The Alhambra September, 2011 In the year 711, The Moors, mostly from the modern countries of Mauritania, Mali, Morocco and Algeria; crossed the Straits of Gibraltar into Visigothic Spain. (The term Moor is a Greek rooted word meaning "dark" a term used to describe African peoples from Greek and Roman times to Shakespeare's Othello. Along with their new religion of Islam, the Moors brought Northern African culture to Spain, including musical instruments, dance, cuisine and architecture. In the year 1492, after over 700 years of making Andalucía /Spain home, the Christian re-conquest expelled the Moors from their final Spanish province, Granada. Upon entering the fortress like palace of Alhambra, the Spanish monarchs found the palace architecture too handsome and its gardens too beautiful to destroy. The fortress walls of the Alhambra are in sharp contrast with the blissful interior of water fountains, reflecting pools, floral gardens and shaded walkways consisting of citrus and pomegranate trees. The palace walls are gracefully etched with geometric patterns and Islamic calligraphy of Koranic verses. The Alhambra has influenced architecture worldwide. An excellent example of the "Alhambra" style, strong outer edifice masking the enter serenity of porticos, fountains and gardens, is the city hall of Pasadena, California. Just as native Americans are egregiously referred to as "Indians", Moorish architecture is wrongly referred to as Spanish. Moorish architecture had long ...
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أي تك - تشاهد في هذه الحلقة، انتل مؤسسة محمد بن راشد آل مكتوم وأنتل في الأراضي الفلسطينية ترفع شعار العالم الى الأمام من أجل الرفع من المنهج التعليمي والطلبة والأساتذة، هيكلة المؤسسات الكبيرة انتربرايس اركيتكتور، ولقاء مع ديفيد أبيرلي رئيس شركة Archangel IT تقديم: توفيق جبران - قناة الحرة
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The 44 metre high Tour Hassan is situated in Rabat, capital of Morocco. The building of the Tour Hassan and the Grand Mosque -- which was planned to be North Africa's largest - were commissioned at the end of the 12th century by the King of the Almohades "the berbers dynastie", Yacoub El Mansour. However, building of the Mosque was never completed and it gradually fell into decay. Nearby, the magnificent mausoleum of King Mohammed V and his son, King Hassan II. A successful synthesis of traditional artistic craftsmanship and modern architecture, the magnificent mausoleum was designed by a Vietnamese architect. A masculine symbol of Rabat, the Tour Hassan stands proud above the ruins of the unfinished mosque. Together with the Royal Mausoleum, the area around the Minaret unites both past and present.
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ENTRACTE is a post-performace film recorded during the AFROPIXEL FESTIVAL MAY 2010, DAKAR (SENEGAL) by Hobbs/Neustettter Located in Zone A, Sicap, Maison 46 - standing for 10 years, is destined for demolition to make way for a new development. In collaboration with students from the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Dakar a series of projection and performance scenes were developed as a reflection on the pathetic state of this building and the expectations of a new architecture to come. Hobbs/Neustetter's extended practice in South Africa as consultants to Public Art and urban design regeneration initiatives has heightened their awareness on other related projects in Africa to the unique and particular conditions surrounding contingent innovation in local architecture and spatial practices. As a performance Entracte responds to the unusual circumstances where the predictable restrictions placed by western building standards: public health and safety and user regulations for example is bi-passed by virtue of the experimental and opportunistic characteristics of perhaps less regulated urban situations. In this sense, Entracte or intermission, takes advantage of the gap in the narrative of urban planning and reflects on the potential of the creative city in Africa. Hobbs/Neustetter's performance of live action, photographic stills, video and lazer projections included Aurora Sound Recordings by James Webb (SA) and selected tracks from Joao Orecchia's (SA) 2009 release Hands and Feet ...
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tinyurl.com Algeria is a country in North Africa. It has a Mediterranean Sea coastline in the north. It is surrounded by Morocco to the northwest, Tunisia to the northeast, Libya to the east, Niger to the southeast, Mali to the southwest, Mauritania and Western Sahara to the west. After Sudan, Algeria is the second-largest country in Africa.
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España: viaje por carretera Holandesa a Mauritania futch tv Archaeological research at Atapuerca indicates the Iberian Peninsula was populated by hominids 1.2 million years ago. Modern humans first arrived in Iberia, from the north on foot, about 32000 years ago. The best known artifacts of these prehistoric human settlements are the famous paintings in the Altamira cave of Cantabria in northern Iberia, which were created about 15000 BCE by cro-magnons. Archaeological and genetic evidence strongly suggests that the Iberian Peninsula acted as one of several major refugia from which northern Europe was repopulated following the end of the last ice age. The two main historical peoples of the peninsula were the Iberians and the Celts, the former inhabiting the Mediterranean side from the northeast to the southwest, the latter inhabiting the Atlantic side, in the north and northwest part of the peninsula. In the inner part of the peninsula, where both groups were in contact, a mixed, distinctive culture known as Celtiberian was present. Basques occupied the western area of the Pyrenees mountain range and adjacent areas. Other ethnic groups existed along the peninsula's southern coastal areas. In the south of the peninsula appeared the semi-mythical city of Tartessos (c.1100 BC), whose flourishing trade in items made of gold and silver with the Phoenicians and Greeks is documented by Strabo and the Book of Solomon. Between about 500 BC and 300 BC, the seafaring Phoenicians and ...
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As long as we rely more on imagination than evidence and rely more on stereotypes than logic we will never make any progress in studying history. The stereotype is that of influences only going in one direction as if there is some kind of mental block in people conceiving of influences going from south to north. All of these little things added up together become something big. While Arab influence is important that is not the only aspect of it and history is portrayed in a way that the influence of African societies will not be taken into consideration. People constantly but subconsciously twist things in such a way that immediately portrays the possibility of African influence as being an impossibility Unnatural and ever prejudicial Constructions of Race and Colonial Hierarchies by British observers in 19th century Zanzibar Electronic pages 13 and 14 cua.wrlc.org In a discussion of race and colonial discourse, Homi Bhabha has described the stereotype as a form of knowledge and identification that facilitates between what is always in place, already known, and something that must be anxiously repeated As if the essential duplicity of the Asiatic or the bestial sexual license of the African that needs no proof, can never, in discourse, be proved. In dual character as that which is already known and yet dependent on being anxiously repeated suggests an important aspect of the racial stereotype that is revealed in its use and function in many colonial sources. We always ...
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www.artehistoria.com The history of Rome fills|one of the most important, decisive and intense chapters|in world history. Over nearly 1300 years of evolution, the Roman world stands as one of|the highlights of Western civilization. A period in which crystallized the most|powerful empire the world has known and whose legacy in the fields of|languages, literature, architecture, politics, or religious life is immense and impossible to value|in a fair perspective. Roman heritage comes to us in triumphal|arches which presides in our cities, in the calendar, at parties,|in the law, in our art, and so as we review the long list|of debts owed to the Roman world, it is very difficult to number them. Rome, the city, became the head|of a formidable empire that would last more than six centuries and whose culture is one|of the most prolific in antiquity. But how did such a vast|domain come into being? From where, Rome and its world arise? If we believe in tradition, Rome was founded|by Romulus and Remus in 753 BC. Sources tell us that|after the death of Romulus, the first king of the city, six kings|succeeded to the throne of Rome until 509 BC., the date of the establishment|of the Republic. The establishment of the Republic|in the late sixth century BC, marked the beginning of the expansion|of the young Roma. The political consolidation of Rome has been|closely tied to their expansionist vocation. In the fifth century BC, it was already the head of a federation|of cities in their ...
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