Re: Sailing Down Africa's East Coast

[Lorenzo <detoma@erols.com>]

Poster: Lorenzo <detoma@erols.com>

As a corollary to this, you still have perceived and actual discrimination
today in countries like Algeria against berbers from the arab population.
Berbers also tend to be fairer in both skin and hair color than the Arabs,
often with blond air and blue eyes.

- Lorenzo

At 11:48 AM 12/10/98 -0500, David KUIJT wrote:
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>Poster: David KUIJT <kuijt@umiacs.umd.edu>
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>On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Michael Jeffrey Looney wrote:
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>> And I had 2 questions arise:
>> 
>> 1.  Is that who we get the style of "berber carpets" from?
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>Never heard of them.
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>> 2.  What's a "Berber"??
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>The Berbers are a race of North-African desert nomads.
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>The Arabs are Middle-Eastern desert nomads in origin; the expansion of
>Islam from Arabia in the 600s spread the Arabs out across the
>Mediterranean coast of Africa and into Spain.  In most cases outside
>Arabia they were only thinly spread as a ruling class over the native
>population.
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>Even though the Berbers converted to Islam in the initial explosive wave
>of the 7th century, conflicts between them and the Arabs were common; the
>civil wars that split Andalusian Spain into warring Berber and Arab
>principalities were a major cause of the fall of Andalusia in the 12th
>century.
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>Dafydd
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