Instead, the concept of Moors has been used to describe alternatively ... In A.D. 711, a group of North African Muslims led by the Berber general, Tariq ibn-Ziyad, captured the Iberian Peninsula ...

Moreover, two new racial categories are being added: Middle Eastern or North African (MENA) and Hispanic or Latino. Each of these changes can increase identity and better capture diverse ...

The four-day pageant in Elda involves groups divided into Moors and Christians [Juan Garcia ... a term applied to Arabs, North African Berbers and European Muslims, from the eighth century to ...

Gelasius I is the only one of the three African popes who historians believe was not born in Africa. "There's a reference to him being... Roman-born. So we don't know if he [ever] lived in North ...

African Americans in the North lived in a strange state of semi-freedom. The North may had emancipated its slaves, but it was not ready to treat the blacks as citizens. . . or sometimes even as ...

The U.S. Census Bureau is making plans to add a category for people of Middle Eastern or North African heritage, a change advocacy groups have long sought. It's about representation, the two ...

Israeli society became aware of the events of World War II in North Africa far too late. North African Jews themselves only gradually came to realize that their wartime experiences bore ...

Johannesburg — Much of Africa's cultural treasure was looted during colonial times and has remained in museums and private collections in Europe and North America ever since. For the last few ...

One specific region — Middle Eastern, North African — is stepping into Seattle’s crowded food scene. When Omid Rousteai isn’t counseling clients as a psychotherapist, you can find him at ...

Libya deported more than 600 men from Niger last month as North African countries — financed by the European Union to tackle migration — have ramped up expulsions of sub-Saharan Africans.

Pope Victor I (L), Pope Gelasius I and Pope Miltiades (R) are all believed to be of North African descent Now predominantly Muslim, North Africa was once a Christian heartland, producing Catholic ...