• Arabophone

    Full definition of arabophone

    Adjective

    arabophone

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      • 1962, David C. Gordon, North Africa’s French Legacy, 1954–1962 Chapter Notes, The French, however, were unsuccessful in their attempt to exploit the Berber-Arab dichotomy. For this failure a French Berberologist blames General Lyautey: “. . . under the impulse of Lyautey, the French succeeded in accomplishing what the Sultan had attempted without success. This was the unification of arabophone and berberophone Morocco.”
      • 1977, Roel Otten, The Mz?b area is well-known as the home of a berberophone kh?ridjite community. It is, however, also the domain of arabophone nomads, members of the Shanba, a tribe of Hil?l? origin.
      • 1982, w:Richard C. Steiner, Affricated ?ade in the Semitic Languages Chapter Hebrew Christian Spain and Portugal, The second consideration is that since the Jews of Muslim Spain, like all other arabophone Jews, distinguished ? from ? (Garbell 1954a:669), one would not expect to find them confused in Toldedo until a generation or two after it was reconquered by the Christians (1085 c.e.).
      • 1992, Mark Nathanael Swanson, Folly to the ?unaf?’: the Cross of Christ in Arabic Christian-Muslim Controversy in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries A.D. Chapter Crucifixion of "My Lord and My God" Scandal Transformed into Proof, Whatever its origins, the procedure quickly became part of the standard apologetic arsenal of arabophone Christians of every confessional community, as we see from its use in the writings of Ab? Qurrah’s contemporaries ?ab?b b. ?idmah Ab? R?’i?ah, a Jacobite, and ‘Amm?r al-Ba?r?, a Nestorian.
      • 2007, Martin Evans; John Phillips, Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed Chapter Black October, There was equal frustration in the ranks of arabophone writers such as Abdelhamid Ben Hadouga and Tahar Ouettar. At the core of their work was the issue of Arab identity and they felt that the regime was not doing enough to hasten the whole Arabization process, preferring instead to indulge a narrow francophone intelligentsia.
      • 2008, Andrea Liverani, Civil Society in Algeria: The Political Functions of Associational Life Chapter associations from voice to loyalty Patrons and clients in associations, The association serves to portray her as less of a francophone, in the eyes of her colleagues, and she goes rounding up people like me, simply because we are arabophone.
      • 2012, Alice Wilson, Households and the production of public and private domains: revolutionary changes in Western Sahara’s liberation movement, My use of qab?la in this paper refers specifically to the social relations in this ethnographic setting (and not to a notion of arabophone ‘tribes’ in general).
      • 2014, w, Official Stories: Politics and National Narratives in Egypt and Algeria Chapter Algeria from the Liberation Struggle through Boumedienne: Historic to Revolutionary Legitimacy, There were insufficient numbers of arabophone instructors, and although a number of Arab states, most notably Egypt, supplied teachers, the Algerians’ memories of them suggest that they were hardly the best and the brightest available.

    Noun

    arabophone

    (plural arabophones)
    1. .
      • 1993, w:Jean-François Bayart, The State in Africa: The Politics of the Belly Chapter The Reciprocal Assimilation of Elites: The Hypothesis of an Intermediate Scenario, On the other hand, it does not take much to realise that if the dynamics of divergence and exclusion prevail, the result is civil war and repression: for example, in Chad, the political marginalisation of arabophones educated in Egypt and Sudan caused them to join the secessionist Frolinat in the 1960s.
      • 2008, Andrea Liverani, Civil Society in Algeria: The Political Functions of Associational Life Chapter associations from voice to loyalty Patrons and clients in associations, My thesis supervisor asked me to join her association on the study of traditional Arabic poetry. The reason is that she’s not very good, and she knows it, and she knows that others know. She’s the director of the history department, can you imagine? A francophone leading a department of arabophones.
      • 2011, David Porter, Eyes to the South: French Anarchists and Algeria Chapter Anarchist Positions Organisation Communiste Libertaire (OCL), Leaving the arabophones to pursue their own ideas, he said, was not possible for Berbers, especially Kabyles. In actuality, they are the victims of Arabization since their language is used only marginally in official media.
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