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Language and Literacy in the Maghreb

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2008

Abdelkader Ezzaki  and
Daniel A. Wagner
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The history of literacy in the Maghreb (Arabic, “west”) spans several millennia. Strategically located in the Northwest of Africa and on the Southern shores of the Mediterranean, the Maghreb has been a crossroads where several civilizations mingled and interacted: The Greeks, the Phonecians, the Romans, the Arabs, and more recently the Turks and the Western Europeans have all affected, to varying degrees, the history, culture, language, and literacy of the region (Al-khatib-Boujibar 1984).

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Regional and Country Overviews
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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 12 , March 1991 , pp. 216 - 229
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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