MENA Dialogues with Abdelhay Moudden & Driss Ksikes: Is Morocco “Exceptional”?

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Jan 25, 2018 Morocco

MENA Dialogues with Abdelhay Moudden & Driss Ksikes: Is Morocco “Exceptional”?

By : Status/الوضع Audio-Visual Podcast Hosts

In this interview for STATUS/الوضع, host Brian Edwards speaks with Abdelhay Moudden and Driss Ksikes about the unique political, economic and social dynamics of Morocco. This dicussion occurs as part of the MENA Dialogues series produced by the Middle East and North African Studies Program at Northwestern University.

Brian Edwards is Director of the Middle East and North African Studies Program, Crown Professor in Middle East Studies, and Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of After the American Century: The Ends of U.S. Culture in the Middle East (2016) and Morocco Bound: Disorienting America's Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express (2005), and co-editor, with Dilip Gaonkar, of Globalizing American Studies (2010).

Abdelhay Moudden (B.A. in Law from the Rabat Faculty of Law, Master's and PhD in Political Sciences from the University of West Florida and the University of Michigan) has taught in Morocco and the U.S. Moudden is a member of Morocco’s National Human Rights Council and the country's Equity and Reconciliation Commission and has published a several articles and studies on political culture, thought and economy. He is also the writer of two novels including, “Adieux à Tanger”.

Driss Ksikes is a prolific novelist, playwright, and journalist. He is Director of CESEM (Centre d’Etudes Sociales, Economiques et Managériales) in Rabat, the editor in chief of the important periodical Economia, and has published a number of academic essays on Moroccan cultural life. His first play, Pas de mémoire, mémoire de pas, was published in Casablanca in 1998. His other plays include Le saint des incertains (2001), Pomme noire (2007), IL/Houwa (2008), Le Match (2013), and N’enterrez pas trop vite Big Brother (2014). He published his first novel, Ma boite noire, in 2006. Ksikes has also maintained an active journalism career, most notably as editor-in-chief of the groundbreaking Moroccan magazine TelQuel and its Arabic sister publication Nichane from 2002 to 2006. His 2014 coauthored Le métier d’intellectuel: dialogues avec quinze penseurs du Maroc (The intellectual profession: interviews with fifteen Moroccan thinkers) won the 2015 Prix Grand Atlas, which is Morocco’s biggest book prize.
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Labor Struggles in the Arab World and the Bleak Situation in Egypt Today A STATUS/الوضع Interview with Joel Beinin

In this interview for STATUS/الوضع, host Danny Postel speaks with Joel Beinin about is recent book Workers and Thieves: Labor Movements and Popular Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. This interview is part of the MENA Dialogues series produced by the Middle East and North African Studies Program at Northwestern University.

Joel Beinin is Professor of Middle East History at Stanford University. He has been involved with the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) since the 1970s and remains a contributing editor to its magazine, Middle East Report. In 2002 he served as president of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA). From 2006 to 2008 he served as Director of Middle East Studies and Professor of History at the American University in Cairo (AUC). He is series editor of Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures with Stanford University Press. His many books include Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954 (co-authored with Zachary Lockman, 1987), The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora (1998), Was the Red Flag Flying There? Marxist Politics and the Arab-Israeli Conflict in Eqypt and Israel, 1948-1965 (1990), Workers and Peasants in the Modern Middle East (2001), The Struggle for Worker Rights in Egypt (2010), Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa(co-edited with Frédéric Vairel, 2011; 2nd edition, 2013), and Workers and Thieves: Labor Movements and Popular Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt (2016).

Danny Postel is the Assistant Director of the Middle East and North African Studies Program at Northwestern University. He is co-editor of The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future (2011), The Syria Dilemma (2013), and Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East (2017). He worked for several years in the labor movement, as Communications Coordinator for Interfaith Worker Justice and as Communications Specialist for Stand Up! Chicago, a coalition of labor unions and grassroots community organizations. He is the producer of the MENA Dialogues series and the former producer of Middle East Dialogues series.