In Algeria, " desert Berbers and Arabs usually have a rigid class system, with social ranks ranging from nobles down to an underclass of menial workers ( mostly ethnic Africans )"

* Musa bin Nusair defeats the Berber army in Algeria, ending resistance against the Arabs there.

In the Qabr-er-Rumia -- " grave of the Roman lady ," " Roman " being used by the Arabs to designate strangers of Christian origin — the Madghacen, and the Jedars, Algeria possesses a remarkable series of sepulchral monuments.

From 1844 to 1847 he served in Algeria, then two years in the West Indies, and again in Algeria, taking part in many expeditions against the Arabs.

This action, however, did not meet with the approval of MacMahon, who feared that the Arabs would resent it as an infraction of the religious peace, and thought that the Muslim faith, being a state institution in Algeria, ought to be protected from proselytism ; so it was intimated to the prelate that his sole duty was to minister to the colonists.

" We don't consider ourselves completely French ... Our parents were Arabs ... We were born in France ( and only visited Algeria a few times )... So what are we?

In the eyes of the French we are Arabs ... but when we visit Algeria some people call us immigrants and say we've rejected our culture.

Historically, the Awras served as a refuge for the Berber tribes, forming a base of resistance against the Romans, Vandals, Byzantine, and Arabs. It was also a district of Algeria that existed during and after the Algerian War of Independence, from 1954 to 1962.

The Arabs in the 8th century conquered Algeria and introduced Islam to the country.

He went again to Algeria in 1864, took part in expeditions against the Arabs, returned to Mexico as lieutenant-colonel, and, after winning further distinction, became in 1867 colonel of the 3rd Chasseurs d ' Afrique.

The third chapter is on Africa, and it touches slavery, racism, the Belgian Congo, Portuguese colonization, French colonization, British colonization, the Arabs in Zanzibar, the Conquest of Algeria, the Algerian War, and the decolonization movements.

In 1889, non-French Europeans in Algeria were granted French citizenship ( Arabs would however only win political rights in 1947 ).

His commentaries were greatly esteemed among the Arabs, who translated many of them, and he is heavily quoted by Maimonides.

The Indian numerals were adopted by the Persian and Arabic mathematicians in India, and passed on to the Arabs further west.

The reason the digits are more commonly known as " Arabic numerals " in Europe and the Americas is that they were introduced to Europe in the 10th century by Arabs of North Africa, who were then using the digits from Libya to Morocco.

However, a percentage of the indigenous Assyrian population ( known as Ashuriyun by the Arabs ) resisted this process, Assyrian Aramaic language and Church of the East Christianity were still dominant in the north, as late as the 11th and 12th centuries AD.

The Assyrians were prized by the British rulers for their fighting qualities, loyalty, bravery and discipline, and were used to help the British put down insurrections among the Arabs and Kurds.

Also, prior to the massive Sephardic emigrations to the Middle East in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Jewish communities of what are today Syria, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Egypt and Yemen were known by other Jewish communities as Musta ' arabi Jews or " like Arabs ".

Circumcision was forbidden, Iudaea province was renamed Syria Palaestina and Jews ( formally all circumcised men, Arabs too ) were banned from entering the city on pain of death.

Critics of the 18th century — Guichard Folard and the Prince de Ligne — were unanimous in thinking Aelian greatly inferior to Arrian, but Aelian exercised a great influence both on his immediate successors, the Byzantines, and later on the Arabs, ( who translated the text for their own use ).

Specifically, the Yemeni Arabs were unhappy that the prince was mounted on a fine Spanish steed.

The Arabs were unable to succeed in converting the population because of constant revolts from the mountain tribes in the Afghan area.

The Arabs were unable to succeed in converting the population of that area because of constant revolts from the mountain tribes.

Hussein learned of the agreement when it was leaked by the new Russian government in December 1917, but was satisfied by two disingenuous telegrams from Sir Reginald Wingate, High Commissioner of Egypt, assuring him that the British government's commitments to the Arabs were still valid and that the Sykes-Picot Agreement was not a formal treaty.

The population of the Banda Islands prior to Dutch conquest is generally estimated to have been around 13, 000-15, 000 people, some of whom were Malay and Javanese traders, as well as Chinese and Arabs.

The constellations around the South Pole were not observable from north of the equator, by either Babylonians, Greeks, Chinese or Arabs.

However Batutta reported that Arabs and Christians were safe, as their flesh was " unripe " and would cause the eater to fall ill.

The earliest inhabitants of the islands were probably Arabs and Africans, the latter probably Bantu-speaking ; the earliest evidence of settlement of the islands dates from the eighth century.

As early as the days of Saladin, and while the Ma ' ans were still in complete control over southern Lebanon, the Shihab tribe, originally Hijaz Arabs but later settled in Ḥawran, advanced from Ḥawran, in 1172, and settled in Wadi al-Taym at the foot of mount Hermon.

The Qaysite party represented the Ḥijaz and Bedouin Arabs who were regarded as inferior by the Yemenites who were earlier and more cultured emigrants into Syria from southern Arabia.

During the Middle Ages, giraffes were only known to Europeans through contact with the Arabs, who revered the giraffe for its peculiar appearance.

The Arabs for instance employed a variety of incendiary substances similar to the Byzantine weapon, but they were never able to copy the Byzantine method of deployment by siphon, and used catapults and grenades instead.

The British demanded that the number of Jewish recruits match the number of Palestinian Arab recruits but very few Arabs were willing to fight for Britain.

Nevertheless, the unwalled cities and towns that remained were subject to slave raids by the Phoenicians and intervention in their internal affairs from Samaritans, Arabs and Ammonites.

Della Valle described Anah as the chief Arab town on the Euphrates, an importance which it owes to its position on one of the routes from the west to Baghdad ; Texeira said that the power of its amir extended to Palmyra ( early 17th century ); but Olivier found the ruling prince with only twenty-five men in his service, the town becoming more depopulated every day from lack of protection from the Arabs of the desert.

While the military effectiveness of these " Afghan Arabs " was marginal, Azzam's group is said to have organized paramilitary training for more than 20, 000 Muslim recruits, from about 20 countries around the world.

" Meir Kahane did not hate the Arabs – he just loved the Jews ", said his widow Libby in her November 20, 2010 TV interview.

At the same time, Goldstein's actions were praised by the some extremist settlers ; Yochay Ron said that he " felt good " when he heard the news, and stated that Jews were " at war with the Arabs " and " all Arabs who live here are a danger to us ... they threaten the very existence of the Jewish community on the West Bank.

The Herald < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s own first account of the meeting, published 2 July 1872, also includes the phrase: " Preserving a calmness of exterior before the Arabs which was hard to simulate as he reached the group, Mr. Stanley said: – Doctor Livingstone, I presume?

" The blow was struck ," Robert-Houdin said, "... henceforth the interpreters and all those who had dealings with the Arabs received orders to make them understand that my pretended miracles were only the result of skill, inspired and guided by an art called prestidigitation, in no way connected with sorcery.

Ben-Gurion is said to have been " nearly obsessed " with Israel obtaining nuclear weapons, feeling that a nuclear arsenal was the only way to counter the Arabs ' superiority in numbers, space, and financial resources, and that it was the only sure guarantee of Israel's survival and the prevention of another Holocaust.

All scholars, except Strabo, who described the inhabitants as " Chaldean exiles from Babylon ", he later retracted his statements when he said " Because of their trade, the Gerrhans became the richest of the Arabs ", agree that the inhabitants were indeed Arab.

On 1 March 1944, while speaking on Radio Berlin, al-Husseini said: ' Arabs, rise as one man and fight for your sacred rights.

Interviewed on the Ist of September, he said that the proposed partition was unjust, since it deprived the Arabs of Palestine of what belonged to them, and would not satisfy in any case the Zionists, who desired all of the country.

One IDF report said " 150 – 200 " Arabs, " including a number of civilians " died in the battle for Jish, while after Safsaf had been captured, brigades committed the Safsaf massacre.

He said, " The Arabs ought to get rid of all three of them: the Mufti, Abdullah, and Qawuqji.

" According to The Economist: " Mr Morris also said, in an interview that stunned his supporters, that Israel was justified in uprooting the Palestinian ' fifth column ' once the Arabs had attacked the infant state, and that the number executed or massacred — some 800, on his reckoning — was ' peanuts ' compared with, say, the massacres in Bosnia in the 1990s.

Aflaq, though himself a Christian, viewed Islam as a testament to the " Arab genius ", and once said " Muhammed was the epitome of all the Arabs.

Further on in the documentary, referring to the Afghan Arabs Bearden said: " The only times that I ran into any real trouble in Afghanistan was when I ran into ' these guys ' - You know there'd be kind of a ' moment ' or two that would look a little bit like the bar scene in Star Wars, ya know.

The report angered both Jews and Arabs: it placed the blame on the Arabs, but said that, " Zionists were not doing enough to mitigate the Arabs ' apprehensions.

Also, he said that " We have become accustomed to Arabs being permitted to live everywhere, in the Negev, Galilee, Shechem ( Nablus ), Jenin, and the other hand there are areas where Jews are not allowed to live.

Thaara is said to have arrived with Arabs who came from the Persian Gulf in the middle of the 17th century.

' Allenby said that the Arabs would see it as " as handing country over at once to a permanent Zionist Administration " and predicted numerous degrees of violence.

" Yosef later said that his sermon was misquoted, that he was referring to annihilation of Islamic terrorism and not of all Arabs.

He called for improving the living conditions of the Arab people in Israel, and said that he has deep respect for peace seeking Arabs.