North Africa Studies
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Alamein covers the events leading up to the battle in North Africa that turned the tides of war against the Axis Powers during World War II: the Battle of Al Alamein. The first part of the book is the history of the battle. Sections... more
A typology of the synagogues in Morocco and their ritual objects
My paper is titled: Chouftouhonna Festival: Feminist and Queer Artivism as Transformative Agency for a New Politics of Recognition in Post-revolutionary Tunisia (pp.203-230).
NB: by "chicanery," I refer to Morocco's record of corruption and lack of oversight and enforcement of its laws, which could use reinforcement. On nearly the eve of hosting the twenty second Conference of the Parties to the United... more
While NATO was created with a primary outlook to the East, its Southern rim was neglected strategically until the end of the Cold War. Since then, the Alliance has undertaken a number of efforts to build strategic relationships with the... more
What are the core issues behind the recent protests? How are Algeria's complex political dynamics playing out with regards to the ongoing protests? What is the significance of Algeria to the wider region? What role do regional and... more
Pb-Zn barite, celestite, florite, celestobarite, fluorite Ore Deposits in Tunisia (North Africa) , Jurassic, Cretcaceous, Triassic Salt diapris Jebel El Kohol, Jebel Stah, Jebel Mecella, Hammam Zriba, Jebel Guebli, Fedj el Adoum, Fej... more
Six ans après la première édition, l'histoire de la communauté grecque de Tunisie est désormais en français.L'étude, qui présente pour la première fois l'histoire de la communauté grecque de Tunisie, est basée exclusivement sur des... more
The Tuareg inhabit the Saharan regions of North Africa - Niger, Mali, Libya, Algeria and Burkina Faso. Tuareg is an Arabic term meaning abandoned by God. Douglas Porch, in his book "The Conquest of Morocco," posits that the French... more
This article will challenge the currently accepted notions of weak British consular presence, influence and activity in the southern Mediterranean during the period 1795–1832 through a case study of the careers of three successive consuls... more
THE RELIGION OF THE OTHER Essays in honour of Mohamed Talbi edited by Mohamed Ben-Madani Mohamed Talbi is a leading contemporary modernist Muslim thinker. Born in Tunis on 16 September 1921, and educated there and later in Paris, he was... more
Brief analysis of the contemporary Moroccan art exhibit of Tetouan School artists in the context of the discourses on #worldart and #contemporaryart, in general. NOTE: updated version is posted at... more
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Dec. 2014 This article investigates how public employee unions mobilised to take advantage of Morocco’s Arab uprising. Leveraging their positions as operators of public institutions, these... more
Material heritage is increasingly mobilized within development projects aimed at reducing poverty and promoting economic growth. Often these mobilizations have less to do with poverty and more to do with the creation of new arenas for... more
Catálogo de la arquitectura rifeña construida en el Marruecos Español por el interventor Emilio Blanco Izaga. En ella se mezclan los rasgos propios del Art Déco y de las arquitecturas propias del Atlas marroquí. Esta arquitectura... more
First President of independent Algeria, FLN leader
The present paper is one part of a larger research project undertaken on a group of nineteenth-century Moroccan ceramics in the collection of the Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. The scholarly interest in such wares has to date been... more
Sayahi Lotfi. Diglossia and Language Contact: Language Variation and Change in North Africa (Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. 2014. 251 pp. Hb (9780521119368) £60.00/$95.00 / eBook... more
Ca obiectiv major mi-am propus întocmirea unor baze de date cu informații cât mai actualizate referitoare la evoluția turismului în țările nord-africane, operațiune urmată de construcția unor grafice pe baza acestor baze de date; al... more
This article discusses the transformation of the Moroccan state under contemporary neoliberal globalization, and considers what this transition means for the ways in which scholars view state-society interplay in Morocco and the Arab... more
New book on the history of Algeria, 1516-2016. (Extract only from the Introduction)
Crises of Empire offers a comprehensive and uniquely comparative analysis of the history of decolonization in the British, French and Dutch empires. By comparing the processes of decolonization across three of the major modern empires,... more
Review of Wearable Treasures: Jewelry and Ornaments of the Maghreb at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris
The aim of this article is not to introduce Donatism as such, or to rehearse what is known about it. Rather, the focus is on a single aspect of Donatist thought — the shaping of the idea of the separation of church and state. On the basis... more
The phenomenon of conflict, within the international relations framework, has a set of intellectual theses that may contribute to the interpretation of the external behavior of states, within the priorities of national and international... more
L’architecture judéo-chrétienne des 19ème et 20ème siècles retrace l’évolution chronologique de toute l’architecture coloniale en Algérie. Elle a également accompagné le long processus de renouveau de l’architecture locale, couronné par... more
This course is an undergraduate colloquium exploring the topic of women and violence in the context of the Middle East and North Africa from the rise of Islam in the Arabian Peninsula to the contemporary conflicts in Iraq and Syria. We... more
Name on the title page of a fundamental work on Algiers in Cervantes' day, whose authorship is disputed. The dispute is not about whether Haedo was the author; everyone agrees he was not. It is about who the real author was. Haedo... more
Basée sur une enquête ethnographique, ma thèse étudie les pratiques prostitutionnelles à Tanger (Maroc) sous trois angles d’observation : la socio-anthropologie des émotions, en étudiant leur conceptualisation par les acteurs ; la... more
This paper aims to identify the effect that the terrorist organization has had on the Nigerian government, focusing mainly on Nigeria's declaration of a state of emergency in 2011 and its establishment of the Joint Task Force shortly... more
This course presents a broad survey of historical forces at work over the past 6,000 years, examining the manners in which human societies have organized themselves along categories of race, ethnicity, class, and gender to meet the... more