Maghreb المغرب العربي

There were two interrelated things which drove me to write this book: first, the clear understanding I had in 2012, in the wake of my father’s death, that two colonial projects deracinated me from the world of my ancestors, the Jewish Muslim world, and the Magh..

After several years working and teaching in France, I felt, in the United States, more encouraged to develop an active research agenda focused on North African literature and cinema through a decolonial perspective. While acknowledging the legacies and traumas ..

We the undersigned express our solidarity with our colleague François Burgat, emeritus senior researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), who was detained by the French police on July 9, 2024. He was accused of “apology for terrorism” and taken into custody.

Roquiya would not stop talking about her goats. “If you don’t have goats, you have nothing,” she declared, “they have al-khair (goodness) and baraka (blessing). I swear, they are better than watermelons.” We were strolling through Feija, a pastoral plain in the provin..

Saadia Mosbah, prominent black Tunisian activist and president of Association M’nemty, was arrested on 6 May 2024. According to Bassem Trifi, lawyer and president of the Tunisian Human Rights League (LTDH), her house was searched and she was placed under police custody while the police investiga..

Over the past twenty-five years, I have watched a vibrant literature on authoritarianism take shape in political science. Co-optation is everywhere in that literature; almost all scholars agree that it supports durable authoritarian rule. Interestingly, MENA ca..

The chaos unleashed by storm Daniel on Derna, a city in eastern Libya, is nothing short of apocalyptic. The two dams that broke after the torrential rains flooded the city and tore the land out from under its inhabitants, washing away entire neighborhoods. This catastrophe not only took a tragic..

Most Moroccans who do not perceive of themselves within the binaries of white vs. black will marvel at the above statement. The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Reporter, a colonial tool that promoted a hierarchized idea of race, is a useful example of the precariousness of racial categ..