ABSTRACT The European Union Cohesion Policy lies on a variety of policy instruments including Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3) on a regional level. Despite its proximity to Europe, there is currently no strategy of its own for North Africa, only a strategy-building process. Since Smart Specialisation claims to address regional disparities by initiating catch-up processes

ABSTRACT Activism against sexual violence was one of the Egyptian Revolution’s most significant mobilising forces, but the country’s return to authoritarian rule has circumvented possibilities for organising and carrying out political resistance, including activism against sexual harassment. This article shows that despite this political oppression, young feminists continue to raise their voices and

(2021). Algeria: be careful what you wish for. The Journal of North African Studies: Vol. 26, Telling Histories of the Present: Postcolonial Perspectives on Morocco’s ‘Radically New’ Migration Policy, pp. 819-826.

(2021). Les juifs d’Afrique du nord face à l’Allemagne nazie. The Journal of North African Studies. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT Since the 1980s, Morocco’s irrigation policies have displayed a puzzling combination of multiple reforms and of deep policy continuity. To make sense of these contradictory patterns, we start by reconceptualising four decades of change as the successive layering of three distinct policy regimes (laissez-faire, delegation, and integration) on top of the older modernisation regime dating back

(2021). Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel: local politics and rebel groups. The Journal of North African Studies. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Une Valse. The Journal of North African Studies. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT Despite legislation in Morocco and Tunisia protecting freedom of expression and the press, journalists working for traditional media outlets and activists posting on social media are both confronting increasingly repressive tactics, including arrests, imprisonment, and heavy fines. Freedom House, an American organisation monitoring democratic practices worldwide, awarded ‘free and independent

ABSTRACT This paper surveys and analyses the distance e-learning (DeL, henceforth) experience in Moroccan universities during the Covid-19 quarantine from the perspective of students in order to investigate the reality of things as achievements, failures, and possible opportunities. The nationwide lockdown, motivated by an awareness of the human cost the spread of Coronavirus may cause, has forced

ABSTRACT Neoliberalism has had substantial resonance in Moroccan governance in the past few decades. Neoliberalism has occasioned a wide-ranging reconstitution of profit accumulation, politics, society, and the individual ‘citizen’ not least as part of the construction of a new collective common sense. The contention of this paper is that Moroccan language policy/politics is articulated amidst this

ABSTRACT National Reconciliation in Algeria is a controversial subject that provokes considerable debates among human rights organisations as well as opposition parties. Since the third term of Abdelaziz Bouteflika, many manifestations of civil war victims have been organised across the country. While it is deemed for a long time that the enforced disappearance file is the only stake for the reconciliation

ABSTRACT This paper situates Morocco’s invasion of the West African Songhai Empire in 1591 within the global histories of race, slavery, and capitalism. Morocco’s invasion, which took place during the height of the Sàdi dynasty (1554–1659), provided Morocco with an influx of capital through Black West African slave labour on Morocco’s sugar plantations and its newfound control over the lucrative gold

(2021). Sex, law, and sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830–1930. The Journal of North African Studies. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT This article examines the influence of non-state actors – particularly non-governmental organisations – on major import companies, investors, and transporters of Sahrawi natural resources, as well as the bodies of the European Union, its member states, the Polisario Front and, additionally, other non-state actors. The aim is to determine whether these actors have had an impact on changing

ABSTRACT What can North African music, as a system of embodied knowledge, tell us about the trans-Saharan movements of people and practices? What could it mean to listen to such a history of continuity and rupture? This essay details the existence of two bodies of Hausa songs still performed today in Algeria within the Dīwān of Sīdī Bilāl, a music and trance ritual tradition that originated, coalesced

ABSTRACT We draw innovatively on new and existing public opinion survey data carried out across North African countries since 2011 to provide a ‘view from below’ of the type of democracy that citizens of North African countries want and compare this conception with the type of democracy the European Union (EU) ‘offers’ its counterparts in the ‘Southern Neighbourhood’. This comparison shows there is

ABSTRACT New Caledonia-Kanaky and Western Sahara have several features in common, beyond the fact that both geographical entities appear on the United Nations list of non-self-governing territories. However, each territory has followed a very different process in its search for a definitive status. Since the late 1980s, New Caledonia has been the site of a bilateral political negotiation process with

(2021). La Face 'Cachée' Des Sociétés Civiles Au Maghreb: Un Espoir Pour Demain?. The Journal of North African Studies. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT The year 2001 marked the beginning of a new trading strategy to the benefit of Morocco following the accession to the throne of Mohammed VI in 1999. Less permissive than his father with regard to what was presumed or expected from his reign, the new sovereign has aimed to focus his regime’s efforts on legitimising the country’s occupation of Western Sahara by offering attractive deals to international

ABSTRACT This article considers the case of the NM Cherry Blossom, a bulk carrier that docked in South Africa loaded with phosphate cargo from Western Sahara. The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic argued that the phosphate cargo was pillaged from the non-self-governing territory, and a South African court set out to determine ownership. This article analyses South Africa’s recognition of the Sahrawi

ABSTRACT Natural resources have been defined by the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Polisario Front, and a number of non-governmental organisations not only as an essential part of the Western Sahara conflict, but also as a battlefield that has attracted the interest of the international community. This article explores how the ethical trade guidelines of two large institutional investors – the Norwegian

ABSTRACT This review article provides an overview of research to date with an explicit focus on natural resource exploitation in Western Sahara. It integrates findings from various perspectives and disciplines, and synthesises the research done with a view to revealing gaps and, therefore, potential new research directions. As the issue of natural resource exploitation in Western Sahara has been conceptualised

ABSTRACT This article examines Spanish colonial discourse on Morocco during the Rif War from the perspective of gender. It focuses on the most reactionary sections of the Army of Africa, which later revolted against the Second Spanish Republic. The image of the Rifian man in this colonial setting is analysed as playing a decisive role in the shaping of Spanish masculinity, which was built through dialogue

ABSTRACT Over the past few years, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has issued several judgments on the international agreements between the European Union (EU) and Morocco and their territorial scope, including the non-self-governing territory of Western Sahara. This study examines cases C-104/16 P and C-266/16 concerning, respectively, the Agricultural Agreement and the Fisheries

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

(2021). Jewish–Muslim interactions: Performing cultures between North Africa and France. The Journal of North African Studies. Ahead of Print.

(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.

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

(2021). Incidental archaeologists: French officers and the rediscovery of Roman North Africa. The Journal of North African Studies: Vol. 26, Telling Histories of the Present: Postcolonial Perspectives on Morocco’s ‘Radically New’ Migration Policy, pp. 1040-1042.

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

(2021). Les déracinés de Cherchell: Camps de regroupement dans la guerre d’Algérie (1954–1962) The Journal of North African Studies: Vol. 26, Telling Histories of the Present: Postcolonial Perspectives on Morocco’s ‘Radically New’ Migration Policy, pp. 1037-1040.

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