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Four Poems by Mohammed Khair-Eddin
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Mohammed Khair-Eddine (1941-1995) is considered one of the most compelling Moroccan writers of the twentieth century. Born and raised in the southern Berber Moroccan town of Tafraout, Khair-Eddine moved to France in 1965. In 1979 he returned to Morocco where he lived until his death in Rabat in 1995. Mohammed Khair-Eddine, along with Abdellatif Laabi and other Moroccan poets, founded the review Souffles in which they articulated “a new Maghrebian aesthetics that would include both a philosophy of action and a poetics of dream,” transcending the colonizer/colonized dialectics on which the previous generation of writers was fixated.[1] Hédi Abdel-Jaouad writes, “Along with ...
Keep Reading »...أيام السينما المغربية: المسكوت عنه، ولكن
تسعة أفلام شاركت في تظاهرة احتفائية بالسينما المغربية في بداية شهر أيلول/ سبتمبر في برلين. فرصة ثمينة لاكتشاف تجارب شابة لا تخلو من راديكاليّة، في طرحها لقضايا شائكة مثل حقوق المرأة والقمع السياسي والمجتمع البطريركي... رغم افتقارها أحياناً إلى العمق الفكري والنضج الفنّي. تحت شعار «التحول والتنوع»، أقيمت «أيام السينما المغربية في برلين» بين أوّل أيلول (سبتمبر) والرابع منه، في سينما «أرسنال»، بالتعاون مع «مركز الشرق المعاصر». في معرض تقديمهم للتظاهرة التي أُعدّ لها قبل اندلاع الربيع العربي، وصف المنظمون الأفلام التسعة التي اختيرت للمشاركة بأنّها أعمال مخرجين ومخرجات مغاربة أُنجزت بين عامي 2001 و2010 تخترق التابُوات الاجتماعية، وتتناول مواضيع تعكس التحولات ...
Keep Reading »Reimagining Foreclosure as a World-Making Project
Foreclosed: Between Crisis and Possibility. Curated by Jennifer Burris, Sofía Olascoaga, Sadia Shirazi, and Gaia Tedone, Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellows of the Whitney Independent Study Program, 2010-2011. May 20 - June 11, 2011 The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, New York, NY One sticky summer afternoon, I walked into The Kitchen and encountered a distinctly alienating experience. A red rotary phone—sans rotary dial—rested on a reception desk and was set against a static backdrop of repetitious black numbers that evoked stock exchange tickers. I placed the phone’s receiver against my ear and the dial tone rang several times before an audible click and a Hello? ...
Keep Reading »Hope, Translated
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Laila Lalami, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 2005. Tahar Ben Jelloun, A Palace in the Old Village. Translated by Linda Coverdale. New York: Penguin, 2011. Already, the narratives of the Arab Spring dominating the American media have a nebulous relationship with the human stories behind the events. The deaths of Mohammed Bouazizi and Khaled Said usually mark the beginning of the story, to be sure. But beyond a handful of famous and visceral anecdotes, most coverage has favored broader themes more familiar (and arguably more palatable) to American audiences: the triumph of social media, for example, or the abuses of dictators. This is ...
Keep Reading »Call for Submissions: Youth, Media and the Politics of Change in North Africa
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Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication Special Issue Call for Papers Youth, Media and the Politics of Change in North Africa: Negotiating Identities, Spaces and Power Guest Editor: Loubna H. Skalli (American University, Washington D.C.) This special issue of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication solicits theoretical and empirical papers on “Youth, Media and the Politics of Change in North Africa: Negotiating Identities, Spaces and Power.” The purpose of this special issue is to document ways in which the Maghreb countries of North Africa (Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Libya) provide vibrant and complex settings for studying the ...
Keep Reading »نحو نهاية إزدواجية الدولة في المغرب؟
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يعيش المغرب حاليا دينامية تغيير تتعدد تجلياتها. هناك حركة احتجاج، وحركة تفاوض، ونقاش عمومي ينتشر عبر فضاءات متعددة. والواقع أننا أمام مستويات لا ينفصل بعضها عن بعض، إذ أن الاحتجاج هو في حد ذاته عملية تفاوضية، والتفاوض يمر عبر تطوير وتعميق أشكال النقاش العمومي. وتوجد مسألة بنية الدولة وطبيعتها في صلب كل هذا الحراك الذي لم يسبق له مثيل منذ حصول المغرب على استقلاله. رفعت حركة 20 فبراير شعارات تحمل أكثر من دلالة، مثل "كرامة، حرية، لا مخزن لا رعية"، و"لا لدولة السلطان، نعم لسلطان الدولة". هناك إذن، في مقابل الدولة الديمقراطية المنشودة، موروث سياسي يتلخص في مصطلحي السلطان والمخزن، ومطلب التحديث والدمقرطة الذي يتلخص في الانتقال من دولة ...
Keep Reading »عن الإستثناء المغربي [On the Moroccan Exception]
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لقد كان لافتا للنظر وجود حملة شرسة استعملت فيها كل الوسائل المتاحة من إعلام تقليدي وإلكتروني وكذلك الإعلام الفتاك الجديد ألا وهو سلاح الاعلام الإجتماعي للدفاع عن فكرة واحدة ووحيدة وهي الإستثناء المغربي. إذ يجب الاعتراف باختلاف المغرب كبلد وجغرافيا وتنوع ثقافي وتاريخي عن بقية البلاد العربية فإنه في نفس الوقت من الضروري مساءلة هذا الإستثناء في بعديه السياسي والإجتماعي. من الضروري مساءلة هذا الإستثناء على ضوء العوامل التي أدت إلى انفجار الثورات في البلدان العربية الأخرى. فإذا بين لنا التحليل العلمي الدقيق انتفاء هذه الأسباب من البيئة السياسية والإجتماعية المغربية، فإننا سنكون سعداء بالإتفاق مع مروجي فكرة الإستثناء المغربي وسيكون جحوداً بل وكفراً بالوطن وقيمه ...
Keep Reading »Libya Erupts and Morocco Protests Planned for February 20th
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The revolutionary wind is heading west as well. In addition to clashes in Benghazi, earlier today, one of al-Qadhdhafi’s murals went up in flames in al-Bayda. They chanted “It’s your turn Qadhdhafi, O dictator.”
Keep Reading »الحركة الإسلامية في شمال أفريقيا: تناقضات الخطاب والممارسة
إن الحق في المشاركة السياسية مقدس ولا يسعنا إلا الوقوف مع كل من حرم من هذا الحق في أي مكان. فكل المواطنبن العرب يجب أن يتمتعوا بحقهم الطبيعي في التعبير عن رأيهم في الاختيار السياسي، بغض النظر عن الانتماء الأيديولوجي، ماداموا يؤمنون بالخيار الديمقراطي كحل لتداول السلطة وتحقيق التغيير السياسي المنشود، وما يستتبعه من تغييرات على المستويات الاقتصادية والاجتماعية والثقافية في المنطقة العربية التي ظلت متأخرة عن ركب الحداثة بسبب القرارات غير الحصيفة لمن تتابعوا على حكمها من الديكتاتوريين. لقد جاءت الثورات ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Mohamed Daadaoui, "Moroccan Monarchy and the Islamist Challenge"
Mohamed Daadaoui, Moroccan Monarchy and the Islamist Challenge: Maintaining Makhzen Power. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Mohamed Daadaoui: I wrote the book because of a long-standing interest in my own country’s political system and the remarkable longevity of monarchical rule in Morocco. Looking at the literature in general, the book attempts to fill the literature gap in Maghreb studies in the English language, and sheds light on the idiosyncrasies of ...
Keep Reading »The Never Ending Story: Protests and Constitutions in Morocco
On 1 July 2011, Moroccans went to the polls in a referendum promoted by King Mohammed VI to approve a new constitution to replace that of 1996. A vote of over ninety-eight percent, in an official turnout of over seventy-two percent, unsurprisingly approved the new text. The new constitution supposedly represents a further step in the direction of establishing a liberal-democratic system and does indeed contain provisions to that effect. For instance there is now the explicit recognition that Morocco is ...
Keep Reading »100 Days of the 2011 Moroccan Constitution
The February 20th Movement is the public and youthful face of the Arab spring in Morocco, emerging on that date into the streets as part of a series of coordinated Sunday demonstrations throughout the country. One of its rallying slogans is dastarat tawsi’at hay’at al-insaf wa-al-musalaha, or “’constitutionalize” the recommendations of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission (ERC).” The ERC, more commonly known by its French initials IER, “Instance Equité et Reconciliation,” is a state-mandated ...
Keep Reading »Youth, Media and the Art of Protest in North Africa
“Everyone has his own way of fighting, and my weapon is art!” says Milad Faraway, a 20 year-old Libyan who created the rap group Music Masters with another young friend in 2010. Their song “Youth of the Revolution” urges “Moammar [to] get out” and end the violation of Libyans’ rights. “Qadhafi, open your eyes wide” sings another rap group Revolution Beat: “you will see that the Libyan people just broke through the fear barrier.” In neighboring Tunisia, twenty-one year old Hamada Ben Amor, known as El ...
Keep Reading »A Turning Point in Morocco?
This Sunday, June 5, major demonstrations were held across Morocco as part of ongoing calls for real reform. However, both the spread and turnout of these demonstrations seem to indicate a turning point that comes in the aftermath of the police killing of Kamal Ammari, one of the leaders of the the February 20th movement. Ammari was attacked by police during the May 29th demonstration in Asfi and subsequently died of his injuries on June 2. His funeral, held on Friday June 3, was also the focal ...
Keep Reading »Morocco on the Eve of the Demonstrations
“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 least in Rabat (as I write this, ...
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 articles on the topic, with the ...
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