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Beur

(bœr)
n
(Peoples) a person born in France of North African descent
[C20: derived from backslang of the syllables of French arabe Arab]
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As part of the initiative, the prisoners lodged in Patna's high security Beur jail are being imparted training to play musical instruments and sing songs.
Singerman and Bissiere locate the beginning of contemporary French cinema in the early 1980s, citing the spectacular arrival of both the cinema du look and the heritage film, the establishment of women behind the camera, and the beginning of Beur cinema shot in the suburbs--all phenomena that developed rapidly during subsequent decades.
Car l'on ne peut toujours avoir le beur et l'argent du beur.
After France crashed out the group stage of the 2010 World Cup, Laurent Blanc was involved in a conversation with top French officials that brought up the possibility of an ethnic quota which would limit the Black and Beur of French youth to give more chances to the "true" youth of France.
Il enchainera des collaborations avec divers organismes (Berbere TV, Beur FM, Beur TV, France 24).
A rebel RJD candidate Ritlal Yadav, who is currently lodged in Beur jail in connection with a murder case, also won from the prestigious Patna seat as an independent.
Lohokare reports to Greg Reiter, head of Residential Mortgage Research, with oversight by Marielle Jan de Beur, head of Structured Products Research, at Wells Fargo Securities.
GI : Le critique et professeur Najib Redouane se demandait dans sa vaste etude Qu'en est-il de la litterature << beur >> au feminin ?
Across the vintages, 2007 continues to have the highest delinquency rate at 13.54 percent, said Marielle Jan de Beur, managing director and head of structured products research with Wells Fargo Securities, Charlotte, North Carolina.
Swamy's approach breaks free of the theoretical discursive categories into which minorities are often pushed by French political and media debates as well as in Anglo-American academic discourse, whether delimited by ethnicity (Beur, Franco-Maghrebi, or simply Maghrebi), gender, sexuality, or the spatial organization of French society (the banlieue).
In 2010, Atlas Copco had about 33,000 employees and revenues of BSEK 70 (BEUR 7.3).