(2021). Back to the future … . The Journal of North African Studies: Vol. 26, The Practice of Historic Preservation, pp. 357-364.

ABSTRACT Translator training has recently received a plethora of research owing to the increasing significance of translation in a globalised world. While professional training in independent institutions is commonly viewed as the key to effecting favourable responses to the demands of the national and international financial business, university courses of translation remain a valuable arsenal in

ABSTRACT This article examines the social history of the Moroccan city of Azemmour and its hinterland during the two decades straddling the establishment of the French Protectorate in 1912. The town’s unique geographic location–near the hubs of European expansion in Casablanca and Mazagan, along a major river, proximate to the coast but without a port – shaped its economic development during the period

ABSTRACT Most literature on Amazigh (Berber) in Morocco and in the Journal of North African Studies revolve around historical, social and political issues. Literature also covers issues of Berber cultural recognition, linguistic identity, and colonization. However, little is known of the ethnobotanical knowledge associated with the traditional way of life that maintains the livelihood and health of

(2021). Le sel de tous les oublis. The Journal of North African Studies. Ahead of Print.

(2021). L'Eglise et les chrétiens dans l'Algérie indépendante. The Journal of North African Studies. Ahead of Print.

(2021). War in the mountains: peasant society and counterinsurgency in Algeria, 1918–1958. The Journal of North African Studies. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT In the Middle East and North Africa, Freemasonry became a considerable phenomenon between the second half of the nineteenth century and the mid-twentieth century, contributing in a more or less significant extent according to the cases, to the political and cultural developments of the region. The role of Masonry in the Arab and Islamic countries has been the subject of a number of studies

ABSTRACT This article presents the conclusions drawn from field work done in Morocco between 2007–2019 of the Judeo-Spanish repertoires of Northern Morocco and their internal societal functions. My findings conclude that their communal use is strictly inner facing and specific to their life in Morocco and not a representation of a long nostalgia for life in pre-Expulsion Spain, contrary to the prevailing

(2021). The novel and the history of the present in Morocco: a book review essay. The Journal of North African Studies. Ahead of Print.

(2021). The Literary Qurʾan: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb. The Journal of North African Studies. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Reconsidering the history of Algerian independence: a book review essay. The Journal of North African Studies. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Tisser le temps politique au Maroc: Imaginaire de l'État à l'âge néolibéral. The Journal of North African Studies. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT This article aims to define the main facets and challenges of undocumented migrants on the move in Fez city (Morocco) and their impact on neighbourhoods and on society at large. It seeks to measure the integration of sub-Saharan migrants in the host community through the metrics of their participation in economic and social activities in urban space and discusses the main hurdles impeding

(2021). Leaving the shadow of pain: a cross-cultural exploration of truth, forgiveness, reconciliation and healing. The Journal of North African Studies. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT Since 2011, tens of new small-scale associative media organisations have sprung up in different towns and regions of Tunisia. Their proliferation has allowed for new voices to emerge both on a local and a national (collective) level. They have also come to represent a coherent third sector in the Tunisian media sphere alongside public and private media. This paper aims to investigate how these

(2021). La discrétion. The Journal of North African Studies. Ahead of Print.

(2021). L’Anthropologie en partage: Autour de l’œuvre de Pierre Bonte. The Journal of North African Studies. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Abraham ou La cinquième Alliance. The Journal of North African Studies. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Moroccan cinema uncut: decentred voices, transnational perspectives. The Journal of North African Studies. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT This essay offers an interpretation of the term al-ʿaṣabiyya in Al-Muqaddima by Ibn Khaldūn, by situating it among the ‘essential conditions’ of human association, which are necessary for the preservation of civilisation. Political authority is necessary for human association, but it can be acquired, Ibn Khaldūn says, only by al-ʿaṣabiyya. Al-ʿaṣabiyya is the required condition (sharṭ); by

ABSTRACT In the early nineteenth century there was an upsurge of interest in Morocco on the part of the European powers. Britain and France particularly invested heavily in their attempts to dominate and control the destiny of the decaying Sherifian empire. This article begins with a brief overview of the situation in Europe during this period with particular reference to Britain and France and their

(2021). Morocco: as you make your bed … . The Journal of North African Studies: Vol. 26, Participation, Association-building and Dissent in North Africa: The Various Dimensions of Youth Activism, from the Fall of Ben Ali to the Revolt against Bouteflika (2011-2019), pp. 179-187.

ABSTRACT The Kingdom of Morocco decisively increased trade and diplomatic interaction with countries of Western and Sub-Saharan Africa since the mid-2000s, supplementing Morocco’s long-standing foreign policy orientation toward the ‘West’. Under the guidance of King Mohammed VI, the country gradually sought regional political rapprochement after several decades of relative isolation. The push for regional

ABSTRACT Franco-Moroccan writer Driss Chraïbi (1926–2007) evolved from antipathy to Islam in his early works to a novel about the Prophet Muhammad (1995). In this work, he fused the dawning of Islam with emergence from the earth mother's womb, conflating the Arabic root for mercy in the Quran with the word for maternal womb. The origin of theories of the Earth Mother was in the nineteenth century,

(2020). Jewish Morocco: a history from pre-Islamic to postcolonial times. The Journal of North African Studies. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT The article investigates the impact of inherited cultural memes on employability policies in Tunisia, where the 2006 Bologna-inspired reforms were touted as a remedy for the critical problem of graduate unemployment. Mainstreaming vocational tracks, introducing transversal courses and involving employers in the design of curricula and training of students were promised to enhance graduates’

(2020). The simple past. The Journal of North African Studies. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT At first sight, becoming the Prime Minister of Hassan II after having been considered, a few decades earlier, to be ‘the foreign minister of the resistance and the plotters’ against the monarchy might constitute a spectacular turnaround in a political career. In fact, this reversal was part of a process that was both slow and discontinuous, with bifurcations, and moments of fluidity and uncertainty

ABSTRACT Against the background of degrading livelihoods, mounting inequalities and related protests in rural areas of Morocco and Algeria, this article mobilises the concept of the rural social contract to analyze changes in the strategic alliances between central regimes and rural elites. It reveals how economic liberalisation reforms have affected the agricultural sector and changed the way both

(2020). Incidental archaeologists: French officers and the rediscovery of Roman North Africa. The Journal of North African Studies. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT In February 2015, Islamic State militants in Libya murdered 21 Coptic Christian migrant workers in an execution-style ceremony. The response, which included the violent retaliation of the Egyptian military and the perpetual commemoration of the victims by the Coptic Orthodox Church, contrasted significantly from earlier incidents of Egyptian state violence against Copts, which both the Church

(2020). Les déracinés de Cherchell: Camps de regroupement dans la guerre d’Algérie (1954–1962). The Journal of North African Studies. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT Reading The Wedding of Zein (1962) by Tayeb Salih from a Bakhtinian perspective can be helpful to trace the revolutionary touch that marks the novel. As the world of Rabelais celebrates the unofficial discourse of the festive life standing against the strictures of the feudal culture, the same celebration of the festive time in terms of merry moments of unbridled indulgence of feasting, joking

ABSTRACT This essay is an attempt to reconstruct a little of the history of the Moroccan merchant community in Manchester, and to establish both who Wright actually was, and how his collaboration with those expatriate Fassi cotton-traders gave birth to – or perhaps simply perpetuated – the Moroccan théière. It will then trace, insofar as is possible, the evolution of the reputation and manufacture

ABSTRACT This article examines the traditional equestrian sport of tbourida (also known as fantasia) to provide insight into the power and politics that drive tbourida as a sport and demonstrate how exceptional women navigate and assert themselves in this male-dominated equestrian practice. Since 2004, women began riding more frequently in tbourida with their numbers growing in the past sixteen years

ABSTRACT Anouar Majid, a Moroccan diasporic writer in the US, is the author of one novel and five critically acclaimed books on Islam and the West. His latest unfavourable polemics against Islam as well as his seeming detour from the pursuits for diverse stronger religions and cultures to the Universalist ideals of the Founding Fathers are likely to provoke controversies. However, this paper argues

(2020). Quand la Tunisie ouvrait la voie … Combats et débats d'une année révolutionnaire. The Journal of North African Studies. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT The Arab Uprisings and subsequent events continue to transform policies of regional and major powers toward the Middle East and North Africa. These powers have shown different approaches toward the Uprisings, ranging from support for the status quo to endorsing regime changes. Their policies have also exerted a significant impact on the course of events. Despite this growing importance and

ABSTRACT In this paper we seek to set out in broad terms the main contours of the vernacular past of the Idaw Tanan of the western High Atlas Mountains of Morocco. By vernacular past we mean the oral, broadly shared, understanding of the past as it is viewed within particular societies, in contrast to written, researched, accounts of past events produced by historians or contained in official histories

(2020). Un village à l'heure coloniale: Draria, 1830–1962. The Journal of North African Studies. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT Social networks are becoming a site of unprecedented diffusion of fake news and misinformation in Morocco. This fact does not only affect people as individuals but also undermines social order and cohesion in general. To fight back, a number of journalists and researchers have engaged in fact-checking processes to verify claims and information. In this regard, this study considers fact-checking

(2020). Mobilising Memory: the Great War and the Language of Politics in Colonial Algeria, 1918–1939. The Journal of North African Studies. Ahead of Print.

(2020). Le nouveau rêve américain: du Maghreb à la Californie. The Journal of North African Studies. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT Accounting for the complexity of intercultural interactions in highly multicultural-fluid times requires re-imagining of (a) the fundamental constructs that have shaped our perceptions of interculturality and (b) the factors that contribute to smooth functioning in intercultural situations. Researchers’ epistemological and methodological positioning can strongly influence the range of findings

ABSTRACT This paper discusses the influence of European migration externalisation policies on civil society initiatives promoting migrants’ rights in Morocco. By looking at the nature of NGOs’ interventions that aim to benefit migrants’ social and economic rights, the paper attempts to uncover the contradictions inherent in the implementation of so-called rights-based approaches to migration management

ABSTRACT The digital revolution has drastically transformed the conventional system of political representation, participation and communication, bringing accordingly many cultural changes in the public sphere where collective action is built and new identity aspects are constructed. This article attempts to make sense of the February 20th movement youth activists’ actions, understand their dynamics

ABSTRACT Some Gramscian concepts proved to be relevant for a better and a worthwhile understanding of the current changes and of the political and social upheavals in Tunisia since winter 2010/2011. In particular, I will approach the ongoing political crisis as a crisis of hegemony. By emphasising the social and economic content in the hegemony of the Tunisian state, the article will focus on its construction

ABSTRACT This article focuses on representations of the city in 20th- and twenty-first-century Moroccan literature. In particular, this work concerns itself with the different social, historical, and political forces that together contribute to the construction of urban spaces, and it draws on a number of critical and theoretical fields, including cultural memory studies and literary studies, while

(2020). Bouteflika, l’histoire secrète. The Journal of North African Studies. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT After a renewed scholarly interest in the politics of revolution and societal transformation following the uprisings of 2011, the defeat of the revolutionary tide in the MENA region has drawn attention to the dynamic of counter-revolution and authoritarian resilience. I criticise binary approaches to the process of regime restoration in the region. I argue that ‘authoritarian resilience’ should

ABSTRACT From a long-term perspective, a Gramscian analytical approach can help us have a better reading of revolutionary processes in MENA countries, expecially if we consider them as the apical moment of a political crisis, originating in the mid-1970s. The most useful Gramscian concepts for this kind of analysis are ‘hegemony’ and ‘civil society’, obviously connected with other categories such as

ABSTRACT This article examines the mass demonstrations that rocked Algiers in December 1960, a major turning point in the Algerian Revolution that precipitated negotiations for independence. The (rather limited) scholarly discussions of these demonstrations centre on the question of whether they were spontaneous or organised. Instead of weighing in on either side of this debate, I use the events of

(2020). Politique et confréries au Maghreb et en Afrique de l’Ouest. The Journal of North African Studies. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT In 2013, Morocco announced the adoption of a new, ‘humane’ migration policy. The implementation of the reform, however, has been characterised by an apparent contradiction: while Morocco has leveraged the humanitarian and international orientation of the policy as a foreign policy tool, this new political framework has not so far been translated into law and has been accompanied by persisting

ABSTRACT This special section is based on part of the papers presented at the ‘Gramsci in the Arab World’ conference, held at the Università degli studi di Bari (Italy), in late 2017. Academic writings of Arab societies have been scarce and fragmented until the 1990s, when with the crisis of the Arab State and the end of the Cold War, Gramsci became one of the most cited European thinkers in the Arab

ABSTRACT Dispersal has acquired an increasingly central role within state-led border control strategies in Europe and North Africa. Scholars have, however, tended to apprehend dispersal in its geographical dimension, failing to interrogate bordering beyond spatial distancing from the territorial edges of the state. Furthermore, dispersal strategies in non-European countries are underexplored. We start

ABSTRACT In Morocco, the implementation of the ‘Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration’ programmes (AVRR) run by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) counts on the widespread collaboration of governmental and humanitarian migration practitioners and of migrants themselves. How come that actors occupying such heterogeneous positions in the migration field ultimately agree on their

ABSTRACT In September 2013, King Mohammed VI announced sweeping reforms to Morocco’s migration policy that promised to break with decades of repressive border control, respect human rights, and open the path to integration for migrants across the country. In this introductory article, we outline the insights that postcolonial studies offers to understanding the ‘radically new’ migration policy in Morocco

ABSTRACT Around Ceuta and Melilla, progressive Moroccan migration policies implemented since 2013 have not produced much positive change, as political, diplomatic and economic issues take over, producing a violent game of borders, both material and symbolic, racialised and gendered. Through an ethnographic approach, this article addresses the issue of violence experienced by migrants from Central and