THE REGION TODAY Vocab: free port, fellahin, Luxor.

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THE REGION TODAY Vocab: free port, fellahin, Luxor

ECONOMIC & URBAN ENVIRONMENTS  Controlling spending  Keeping inflation down  Reducing restrictions on gov’t trade  Tangier, Morocco is a free port. This means no taxes are placed on goods unloaded from there.

ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES  Oil & natural gas are the backbone of Libyan & Algerian economies.  Egypt & Tunisian also have significant oil products.  Agriculture is important. Egypt has fellahin (peasant farmers) who work the Nile Valley.  Fellahin make up 40 % of the Egyptian work force.  Libya imports 75% of its food.

ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES  Tourism is important in North Africa.  It is important in Egypt, Morocco & Tunisia.  Area does not have enough jobs.  Rapid population makes the situation worse.

URBAN ENVIRONMENTS  Cairo, Egypt, Tripoli, Libya, Tunis, Tunisia & Algiers, Algeria are large capital cities.  They are a mix of modern & traditional buildings.  The cities are large with slums in the middle of the city.

ISSUES  Islam is important in North African politics.  Many Islamic fundamentalists believe that government should be based strictly on the laws of Islam.

CHALLENGES  Desertification  Pollution from oil refining  Polluted water supplies  Nile River  Aswan Dam stops the annual flooding which helps helps the farm land.