North Africa

• “We have no uniforms to wear because the DUCE has ordered that they must be worn by all teachers and government employees, we have been abandoned in North Africa for lack of transport, having marched 600 kilometres across the desert in full summer.”

  Captain Corelli's Mandolin

• “The accounts we have heard from witnesses to events in Talkalakh paint a deeply disturbing picture of systematic, targeted abuses to crush dissent, said Philip Luther, Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa deputy director.”

  The Guardian: Syrian violence may be crime against humanity, says Amnesty

• “After the massive ordnance and extreme mechanization of North Africa it was strange never to see a mortar or a fieldpiece; just Owen guns and rifles, with bayonets in place all the time.”

  The Thorn Birds

• “On the eve of war, these men were in North Africa and it became the imperative task of the French Mediterranean fleet to convoy them across the sea to Marseilles.”

  Castles of Steel

• “In North Africa the first metropolitan appears during the fourth century, the Bishop of Carthage being recognized as primate of the dioceses of Northern Africa; metropolitans of the separate provinces gradually appear, although the boundaries of these provinces did not coincide with the divisions of the empire.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss

• “Although the journey to North Africa was Rauschenberg's idea, it profoundly affected Twombly: he brought back a sketchbook filled with motifs and studies of materials, and subsequently produced expressive abstract canvases whose titles were taken from the Moroccan towns Tiznit and Quarzazat.”

  The Guardian: Cy Twombly obituary

• “He returned to North Africa and was appointed Bishop of Hippo.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art

• “However, while the Ninth had been holed up inside Tobruk, the steadily swelling ranks of British troops in North Africa had become the British Eighth Army, its new commander General Bernard Law Montgomery.”

  The Thorn Birds

• “Flies buzzed everywhere, but all four were Australian bushmen, so Tobruk and North Africa held no surprises in the way of heat, dust or flies.”

  The Thorn Birds

• “There's a consensus that they do need to engage to prevent any trouble from spreading outside Yemen," said Gerd Nonneman, an associate fellow of the Middle East and North Africa program at Chatham House in London.”

  The Wall Street Journal: In Crisis, Saudis Gain Leverage On the Ground

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