The Syrian/Lebanese mercantile community of Manchester existed in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but they were not the only Arab group in the UK during this period. Moroccan traders formed a very distinct Arab community in Manchester.
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in title, tags, annotations or urlBetween British integration and Arab identity: The history of the Moroccan merchants of Manchester - 0 views
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Moroccan merchants began visiting Britain as early as the sixteenth century, arriving at the port of St. Ives in Cornwall in 1589
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In the nineteenth century, Moroccan Muslim and Jewish traders began to settle in Manchester on a more permanent basis. In the 1830s Britain and Morocco signed treaties permitting their subjects to travel and trade in each other’s territories.
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The Islamic State Isn't Behind Syria's Amphetamine Trade, But the Regime Could Be - 0 views
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Scientists first produced Captagon, the brand name of the drug fenethylline, in the 1960s to treat depression and children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Two decades later, the World Health Organization banned the substance due its high potential for addiction, abuse, and other adverse health effects. But counterfeit Captagon—which is sometimes just a cocktail of amphetamines with no fenethylline—remains in demand on the black market in the Middle East.
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pills intercepted in Salerno arrived on three ships from Latakia, a Syrian port, and Italian police quickly announced that the Islamic State was responsible for their production and shipment—allegedly to fund its global terrorism operations.
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Global media outlets disseminated the information provided by the Italian police without questioning it, replicating misinformation without considering how a scattered group of Islamic State members could pull off such an operation—but the truth is, they probably didn’t
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In 1930s Tunisia, French Doctors Feared a 'Tea Craze' Would Destroy Society - Gastro Obscura - 0 views
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In 1927, at a meeting of the Academy of Medicine in Paris, a French-trained Tunisian doctor, Béchir Dinguizli, sounded the alarm about a “new social scourge” spreading like an “oil stain” across Tunisia. It had “entered our morals with lightning speed,” he warned, and if not stopped by French authorities, it had the power to paralyze Tunisian society. The alarming threat? Drinking tea.
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Although practically unknown before World War I, tea imports nevertheless shot up from 100,000 kilos in 1917 to 1,100,000 in 1926. The catalyst appears to have been the Italo-Turkish War of 1911-1912, which sent an influx of tea-drinking refugees from Tripolitania (modern-day Libya) into Tunisia.
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Among these French administrators, there was real fear that the colonized population was turning into tea addicts, with medical, social, and economic consequences for France’s mission civilisatrice.
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The Uncounted - The New York Times - 0 views
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one in five of the coalition strikes we identified resulted in civilian death, a rate more than 31 times that acknowledged by the coalition
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a consistent failure by the coalition to investigate claims properly or to keep records that make it possible to investigate the claims at all
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the result simply of flawed or outdated intelligence that conflated civilians with combatants
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In Egypt's Sinai desert, Islamic militants gaining new foothold - The Washington Post - 0 views
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The eclipse of authority has also given rise to Sharia courts run by Islamic scholars who settle disputes according to Islamic law.
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Even normal people, not just jihadis, would fight and die if Israelis came back
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n the recent turmoil, militants have been carrying out attacks on lightly armed police officers in recent months and have repeatedly bombed the pipeline that carries natural gas to Israel. Bedouin tribesmen with grievances against the state, meanwhile, have kidnapped foreign tourists and international peacekeepers. Drug runners and human smugglers have also seized the moment, making both lucrative trades increasingly violent.
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New U.S. Politics Brings Mixed Message for Israel - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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This article strikes me as pretty weak, particularly for the front page - I guess Black Friday is also slow news day. To sum up: support for Israel became a partisan issue to an unusual degree during the 2010 election (probably); Tea Party-supported candidates may pose a threat to US aid to Israel (not well supported by evidence in the article). I hope you hold yourselves to higher standards of evidence in your research papers and, ideally, your blog posts.
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