The Paris metropolitan area has a large Maghrebi population as a result of French colonial ties to that region. the majority of those of African origin living in Paris come from the Maghreb. In 2019, the Paris Region had 330,935 Algerians, 253,518 Moroccans and 127,827 Tunisians. in addition, there are thousands of Maghrebi Jews who immigrated during the 1960s. Naomi Davidson, author of Only Muslim: Embodying Islam in Twentieth-Century France, wrote that as of the mid-20th Century "The "community" of Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians, however, was certainly not monolithic, as even the police acknowledged in their discussion of the North African "populations" of the Paris region".