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Gretchen Head
The Melancholia of a Generation
Mohammed Achaari, al-Qaws wa-al-farashah. al-Dar al-Bayda’: al-Markaz al-Thaqafi al-ʻArabi, 2010. Mohammed Achaari is not new to Morocco’s literary scene; though The Arch and the Butterfly (al-Qaws wa-al-farashah) is only his second novel, he is the author of nine collections of poetry, a collection of short stories, and has served as both Minister of Culture and president of the Moroccan Writer’s Union. The brief synopses that accompanied the announcement of his selection ...
Keep Reading »Morocco on the Eve of the Demonstrations
![[Image from the Mouvement du 20 Fevrier Facebook site]](/content_images/3/sm_morocco.jpg "[Image from the Mouvement du 20 Fevrier Facebook site]")
“When I go out in the street, no cares about #feb20, I connect and boom, the revolution is brewing” (Qd je sors ds la rue, no one cares about #feb20, je me connecte et boom c'est la révolution qui couve). The above, tweeted yesterday in the style of much that’s being produced on the internet about the demonstrations on Sunday — a combination of text message French and English (and often transliterated Darija) — is a perfect encapsulation of the immediate situation, at ...
Keep Reading »Revolutionary Contagion: Morocco and a Plea for Specificity
Since January 15th, media discourse on the Arab world has almost uniformly coalesced around a single term, “contagion.” This is a telling semantic choice given the word’s broader associations with disease; a synonym for “infection” or “contamination,” it carries rhetorical connotations that are hardly subtle. The Wall Street Journal has analyzed Egypt’s “contagion risk” (Feb. 1st) and in the past two and a half weeks The New York Times has published at least half a dozen ...
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Gretchen Head holds a PhD in Arabic literature from the University of Pennsylvania. In the fall of 2012, she will join the University of California, Berkeley’s Department of Comparative Literature as a postdoctoral fellow.
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