Region is a term concept equipped with a range of meanings which culminates in broad and fragmented debates as well as in homogenizing representations about spaces, contexts and individuals. This way, the principal aim of this study is to recover elements of the imaginary which surrounds the region in the international domain and, then, make parallels between the representations about the Maghreb in this literature in which the metaphor of the international appears as a central topos and the critical approaches of intellectuals who speaks from the locus Maghreb. Thus, the choice of analyzing the works of Abdallah Laroui e Mohamed Al Jabri specifically is due to the engagement of these intellectuals within debates about decolonization, tradition and modernity, and the manifestations of postcoloniality in this locus-region. The main argument is that the region in general does not configure itself ,only, as an analytical construction and/or homogeneous and well demarcated spatial category, but as a topology engendered and performed through discourses of identification, differentiation and resistance without disregarding the elements of ambivalence present in these discourses. The concepts of imagined worlds and region as artifact created by Arjun Appadurai and Rogério Haesbaert, respectively, as well as specific elements of the debate on post coloniality are substantial here.