Authors

Susan Gilson Miller

Susan Gilson Miller, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Davis, is a historian of the contemporary Maghrib. Her interests are in urban studies, minority studies, refugees, and human rights. Her most recent book is Flight, Interrupted; Nelly Benatar and the Refugee Crisis in North Africa During World War II (Stanford University Press, forthcoming). 

ARTICLES BY Susan Gilson Miller

  • Albert Memmi, In Memoriam (1920-2020)

    Albert Memmi, In Memoriam (1920-2020)

    Albert Memmi, author, essayist, philosopher, and public intellectual, born in Tunis on 15 December 1920 and self-exiled to France upon Tunisia’s independence, died in Paris on 22 May 2020, just a few months short of his one-hundredth birthday.

  • Why History Matters in Post-2011 Morocco

    Why History Matters in Post-2011 Morocco

    The Story of the Fishmonger

    A few weeks ago, the media carried the tragic story of a Moroccan fishmonger named Mouhcine Fikri, aged thirty-one, from the northern coastal town of al-Hoceima. Fikri was crushed to death by a rubbish compactor as he tried to retrieve a..