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Author: Gilad James, PhD Publisher: Gilad James Mystery School ISBN: 8429985859 Category : Languages : en Pages : 95
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Mauritania is a country located in the northwest region of Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast, Mali to the east and southeast, and Senegal to the southwest. The country has a population of approximately 4.5 million people and covers an area of 1,030,700 square kilometers. The official language of Mauritania is Arabic, but French is also widely spoken. Islam is the predominant religion, and the country's economy is based on agriculture, fishing, and mining (particularly iron ore). The country has faced political, social, and economic challenges in recent years, including mental and physical slavery, gender inequality, terrorism, and poverty. Despite these challenges, Mauritania has a rich cultural history, with influences from the Berber, Arab, and African cultures. The country is also known for its vibrant music scene, including traditional instruments such as the ardin and tidinit.
Author: Gilad James, PhD Publisher: Gilad James Mystery School ISBN: 8429985859 Category : Languages : en Pages : 95
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Mauritania is a country located in the northwest region of Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast, Mali to the east and southeast, and Senegal to the southwest. The country has a population of approximately 4.5 million people and covers an area of 1,030,700 square kilometers. The official language of Mauritania is Arabic, but French is also widely spoken. Islam is the predominant religion, and the country's economy is based on agriculture, fishing, and mining (particularly iron ore). The country has faced political, social, and economic challenges in recent years, including mental and physical slavery, gender inequality, terrorism, and poverty. Despite these challenges, Mauritania has a rich cultural history, with influences from the Berber, Arab, and African cultures. The country is also known for its vibrant music scene, including traditional instruments such as the ardin and tidinit.
Author: Ana Ramos Publisher: Springer ISBN: 9402410236 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 692
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This book compiles the main findings of the multidisciplinary long-term research program developed in the continental margin of one of the more productive and unknown areas of the world oceans, Northwest Africa. The more than 25,000 preserved fishes and benthic invertebrates and quantitative data collected in 342 trawling stations, the 267 oceanographic profiles, the 211 sediment samples and the 28,122 km2 prospected by multi˗beam echo sounding allowed to obtain an overview of the amazing biodiversity of the demersal and benthic fauna inhabiting soft- and hard-bottom habitats, as well as the fascinating geomorphology and oceanography, hidden in the Mauritanian slope.
Author: Boubacar N'Diaye Publisher: ISBN: 9781138059481 Category : Africa Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Mauritania's Colonels examines the personalities and policy of five military officers turned heads of state who ruled Mauritania for nearly 40 years." -- from preface.
Author: Katherine A. Wiley Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 0253036259 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 232
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Although slavery was legally abolished in 1981 in Mauritania, its legacy lives on in the political, economic, and social discrimination against ex-slaves and their descendants. Katherine Ann Wiley examines the shifting roles of Muslim arāīn (ex-slaves and their descendants) women, who provide financial support for their families. Wiley uses economic activity as a lens to examine what makes suitable work for women, their trade practices, and how they understand and assert their social positions, social worth, and personal value in their everyday lives. She finds that while genealogy and social hierarchy contributed to status in the past, women today believe that attributes such as wealth, respect, and distance from slavery help to establish social capital. Wiley shows how the legacy of slavery continues to constrain some women even while many of them draw on neoliberal values to connect through kinship, friendship, and professional associations. This powerful ethnography challenges stereotypical views of Muslim women and demonstrates how they work together to navigate social inequality and bring about social change.
Author: El Hacen Moulaye Ahmed Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1793612668 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 287
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In modern-day Mauritania, as in several multilingual states, tensions over language policy and identity between the two ethnic groups—Arab and afro-Mauritanian—have been flaring ever since the nation’s independence. In Language Policy and Identity in Mauritania: Multilingual and Multicultural Tensions, El Hacen Moulaye Ahmed investigates language policy and identity in this North African country. Moulaye Ahmed traces the past and the present Mauritania’s identities and language policies and reveals Mauritanians’ language policy preferences and the relationship between their identities and their preferences.
Author: Paige Wilhite Jennings Publisher: Minority Rights Group ISBN: 1907919600 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 32
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Mauritania is consistently ranked as the worst place in the world for slavery, with tens of thousands still trapped in total servitude across the country. This practice, despite officially being criminalized, continues to be sustained by the systematic marginalization of Mauritania’s large Haratine population. The situation is especially precarious for Haratine women, who are discriminated against on account of both their gender and ethnicity. This report, Still Far From Freedom: The Struggle of Mauritania’s Haratine Women, draws on extensive research and first-hand testimony from Haratine women. Besides highlighting the everyday reality of abuse and oppression experienced by those in servitude – ranging from exploitative labour, intimidation and confinement to rape, violence and the enforced separation of families – it also explores how formerly enslaved Haratines and their descendants still face widespread stigmatization. The deep discrimination experienced by Haratine women, even among their own community, is driven by the reluctance of authorities to take meaningful action to curb abuses. Nevertheless, although these obstacles can be overwhelming, many Haratine women have demonstrated great courage and determination in their fight for equality and greater autonomy in their own lives. Despite the dangers and the deep resistance their activities attract, including from male members of their own community, Haratine women have played a leading role in advocating for their rights and legal redress for the abuses committed against them. Nevertheless, though the immediate abolition of slavery in Mauritania is a critical first step in reducing many of the worst rights abuses against Haratine women, a wider process of social and institutional reform will also be required before their rights and security can be ensured. These issues can only be addressed by a comprehensive and sustained process of social and institutional reform, with the involvement of the national government, Mauritanian civil society, law enforcement agencies and the international community.
Author: Collectif Publisher: Centro de Estudos Internacionais ISBN: 9898862483 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 146
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This publication is one of the results of a conference organised in Lisbon in 2011 on the theme of African borders and their relationships with migration and mobility. The selected papers are a sample of the diverse perspectives on the general theme presented at the meeting. The African Borderlands Research Network (ABORNE) promoted this event, allowing a substantial number of its members to exchange results of ongoing and long-term research. The Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal) funded the research project Borders and Identity in Africa (PTDC/AFR/098339/2008) which prepared this publication.
Author: Gilad James, PhD
Author: Gilad James, PhD
Author: Ana Ramos
Author: Janet Fleischman
Author: Boubacar N'Diaye
Author: Katherine A. Wiley
Author: Jonathan Fisher
Author: El Hacen Moulaye Ahmed
Author: Paige Wilhite Jennings
Author: Collectif
Author: Olivier Hamerlynck