(n.) One of a swarthy race occupying Arabia, and numerous in Syria, Northern Africa, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite Facebook's size and reach, and its much-vaunted role in the short-lived Arab spring , there are reasons for thinking that Twitter may be the more important service for the future of the public sphere – that is, the space in which democracies conduct public discussion.
(2) There is no difference between (Arab) blood and (Jewish) blood.
(3) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
(4) Now, a small Scottish charity, Edinburgh Direct Aid – moved by their plight and aware that the language of Lebanese education is French and English and that Syria is Arabic – is delivering textbooks in Arabic to the school and have offered to fund timeshare projects across the country.
(5) Likud warned: “Peres will divide Jerusalem.” Arab states feared that his dream of a borderless Middle East spelled Israeli economic colonialism by stealth.
(6) • Mubarak becomes a major mediator in the Arab-Israeli peace process, remaining a consistent US ally bolstered by billions of dollars in American aid.
(7) Unfortunately it was the Arab spring that failed , and the rise of Islamic State was one of the results.
(8) Asked if his calls for more airstrikes , a ground coalition comprising mainly Sunni Arabs and the deployment of US and international special forces were effectively just a more aggressive re-voicing of current White House strategy, he said: “I don’t agree that’s part of their strategy.
(9) Statements by Kerry, Israeli president Shimon Peres and Arab League representatives on Wednesday and Thursday indicated that significant progress had been made.
(10) The Sunni side includes ISIS, Jaish al-Islam, JRTN, the 1920s Revolutionary Brigades, and moderate Sunni Arab tribal members.
(11) If neighbouring Arab states put pressure on the rebel groups, the result could be a ceasefire and an end to the terrible violence.
(12) Photograph: Peter Beaumont for the Guardian For his part the leader of Hadash, the veteran socialist party in Israel that emphasises Arab-Jewish cooperation, Odeh has now attracted a political star status most obvious on the stump in Lod on Wednesday in the repeated cries of “Ayman!” by shopkeepers and passersby keen to shake his hand or be photographed with him.
(13) By the 1970s, groups of schools were collaborating to offer their children a varied history course which might take in the modern world, the Arab-Israeli conflict and medicine through time.
(14) Esfandyar Batmanghelidj is organising the second Europe-Iran forum in Geneva in September, which brings Iranian business leaders and foreign investors – including France’s Alstom, the United Arab Emirate’s Aujan, and Italy’s SACE – together.
(15) The relationship of body fat distribution to glucose intolerance and non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in Arab women was studied in 102 obese non-diabetic and 40 obese women with diabetes.
(16) They were tested both in silence and against a background of continuous spoken Arabic presented at 75 dB(A).
(17) Speaking in Washington on Thursday, the Iraqi prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, said the offensive underscored the growing threat posed by Isis militants – whom he referred to using the group’s Arabic acronym “Daesh”.
(18) The non-significance of one item was probably related to the way it was translated into Arabic.
(19) She says that, while she stayed away from the more difficult ramifications of that upbringing, she nevertheless plunged right into the "hot quicksand" of the Arab-Israeli conflict, right down into the Biblical roots of Jewish-Muslim conflict in the story of Abraham, Hagar, Isaac and Ishmael (which she meditates upon in the opera's Hagar chorus), and into the vortex of questions about Israel's right to exist and what motivates terrorists.
(20) Of course, students need to be aware there is a “Jewish story” and an “Arab story”, as Michael Davies’ article points out ( Education , 6 October), just as they need to be aware there are always different narratives in conflict situations, like colonialism.
Berber
Definition:
(n.) A member of a race somewhat resembling the Arabs, but often classed as Hamitic, who were formerly the inhabitants of the whole of North Africa from the Mediterranean southward into the Sahara, and who still occupy a large part of that region; -- called also Kabyles. Also, the language spoken by this people.
Example Sentences:
(1) The gene frequencies obtained among the Berbers are different from the the values observed among the other Tunisians.
(2) The combined data, considered in the light of sociological, historical and paleontological data, support the hypothesis that the Berbers are native to North Africa and their ancestors, the first modern man (Homo sapiens) of North Africa, were the founders of the European populations.
(3) The Kelts may have a similar origin but they might include the Berbers of ancient Iberia as a third component.
(4) Likewise, other comparisons are made with populations from Africa, Europe and Asia, since Tunisians are a mixture of Berbers, invaders and immigrants from different origins.
(5) A t the end of the long day's walk under the searing Moroccan sun, across endless expanses of sand, the Berbers slowed their camel and stopped.
(6) Essebsi has dismissed the word “taghaoul” (power grab) that the Marzouki camp has deployed, evoking the ogre (“ghoul”) of north African Berber and Arab legend.
(7) But they failed to take account of the most essential consideration: the nature of the Arab-Berber world.
(8) The deficient subjects originated from multiple geographic regions of Northern Algeria, with prevalence of individuals of Berber-Kabyle origin.
(9) The front lines – in the east, around Misrata and in the Berber-populated mountains south of Tripoli – ripple like the edges of a carpet under which dogs are fighting.
(10) DNA polymorphisms in the human immunoglobulin gamma (gamma) region have been studied in random Arabo-Berber Tunisians and in a large Tunisian Berber kindred.
(11) It was then the intention to get off the tourist tracks and to experience life among the Berber tribes, and to trek part of the high Atlas range.
(12) After the final dinner, we gathered around a campfire to listen to drumming and singing by professional Berber musicians.
(13) The 33-year-old law graduate, who asked to be known simply as “Hajj” – an honorific generally used by people who have completed the pilgrimage to Mecca – said the EU would be better off investing in local infrastructure for the long-marginalised Amazigh minority , the Berber tribe whose members run the smuggling networks in Zuwara.
(14) This was the joy of the week I spent on a new "nomadic beach retreat", walking a stretch of coastline between Essaouira and Agadir with a tribe of Tuareg Berbers.
(15) Despite the presence of some African admixture, the gene pool of the Berbers from Tunisia shows large homologies with Middle Eastern groups rather than similarities with North African populations.
(16) Blood samples from 120 Tunisian Berbers of Gallala village were typed for Gm and Km immunoglobulin allotypes, alpha-1-antitrypsin variants and AB0 blood groups.
(17) But then came a wave of local Berber rebellions, and the rise of a regional al-Qaida franchise .
(18) The data collected show that the actual Berber community is genetically heterogeneous.
(19) Others listed on the official line up include Seun Kuti (youngest son of afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti) with Egypt 80, and Toumani and Sidiki Diabat, who will play on the Pyramid on Sunday and Tinariwen , a group of Tuareg-Berber musicians from the Sahara Desert region of northern Mali.
(20) The polymorphism of serum proteins (Hp, Tf, Gc, C3 and BF) was determined on 210 samples belonging to Berber groups living in three regions of Tunisian.