Mughrabi, Mugrabi, Mograby, Mograbi, or Moghrabi is a surname and place name derived from "
Maghreb
The Maghreb (; ar, الْمَغْرِب, al-Maghrib, lit=the west), also known as the Arab Maghreb ( ar, المغرب العربي) and Northwest Africa, is the western part of North Africa and the Arab world. The region includes Algeria, ...
" – meaning "West" in Arabic, and usually referring to
North Africa
North Africa, or Northern Africa is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of Mauritania in ...
or specifically to
Morocco
Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...
, i.e., the westernmost part of the Arab and Muslim world. It exists among both Muslims and Jews originating from this region.
Arabs originating from the Levant (Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Jordan) who hold the surname " Al Moghrabi" can trace their lineage back to the Son of Saladin, Malik Al Afdal,who established the Moroccan Quarter in East Jerusalem, dedicated to Maghrebi migrants coming from Northern Africa.
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Ibrahim Mughrabi
Ibrahim Mughrabi ( ar, إبراهيم المغربي, born 1939 in Aleppo) was a Syrian Association football, footballer of Palestinian descent who played as a Forward (association football)#Striker, striker. He was the first foreigner to ever p ...
, Syrian football player
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Avi Mograbi
Avi Mograbi ( he, אבי מוגרבי; born May 9, 1956) is an Israeli documentary filmmaker.
Life and career
Mograbi's grandfather founded The Mograbi Cinema ''(Kolnoa Mograbi)'', an Art Deco movie theatre in downtown Tel Aviv. Opened in 1930, ...
, Israeli documentary filmmaker
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Dalal Mughrabi
Dalal Mughrabi ( ar, دلال المغربي, ; ''c.'' 1959 – 11 March 1978) was a Palestinian militant who was a member of the Fatah faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and participated in the 1978 Coastal Road massacre ...
, Palestinian militant involved in killing Israeli civilians (March 11, 1978)
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Firas Mugrabi, Israeli football player
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Jose Mugrabi
Jose Mugrabi (born 1939) is a Syrian Israeli businessman and art collector. with a family net worth estimated at several billion. He is the leading collector of Andy Warhol, with 800 artworks.
Biography
Yosef "Jose" Mugrabi was born to a Syrian ...
, art collector
El Mughrabi
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Mohammad Al Mughrabi, Jordanian interior designer
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Ismael Al-Maghrebi, Saudi Arabian football player
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Ahmed El Maghrabi
Ahmed Alaeldin Amin Abdelmaksoud ElMaghraby (or Ahmed El-Maghraby, Arabic: أحمد علاء الدين أمين عبد المقصود المغربي, May 16,1945 Cairo — ), is an Egyptian- Saudi businessman and former housing minister with the ...
, Egyptian businessman and politician
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Khalil Amira El-Maghrabi, Egyptian boxer
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Jomana Elmaghrabi, Egyptian synchronised swimmer
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Razan Naiem Almoghrabi, Libyan writer and feminist
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Samy Elmaghribi, Jewish-Moroccan musician
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Khaled Al-Maghrabi, Saudi Arabian football player
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Muhammad Al Maghrabi, Libyan football player
Locations
* Mughrabi Quarter or
Moroccan Quarter
The Mughrabi Quarter ( ar, حارَة المَغارِبة ''Hārat al-Maghāriba'', he, שכונת המוגרבים, ''Sh'khunat HaMughrabim'') or Maghrebi Quarter was a neighbourhood in the southeast corner of the Old City of Jerusalem, est ...
, historic quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, razed in 1967 to make way for the Wailing Wall Plaza
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Mughrabi, Yemen
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Arabic-language surnames