The widespread belief that Spain and Morocco are joined through their Andalusi past from a time when Christians, Muslims, and Jews coexisted in medieval Iberia actually arose in the 1800s, as Spain's justification for colonizing Morocco. Eric Calderwood shows how a piece of Span…
Through state-backed Catholicism, monolingualism, militarism, and dictatorship, Spain's fascists earned their reputation for intolerance. It may therefore come as a surprise that 80,000 Moroccans fought at General Franco's side in the 1930s. What brought these strange bedfellows…
Through state-backed Catholicism, monolingualism, militarism, and dictatorship, Spain's fascists earned their reputation for intolerance. It may therefore come as a surprise that 80,000 Moroccans fought at General Franco's side in the 1930s. What brought these strange bedfellows…
Tetouan is Granada -- Al-Andalus and Moroccan literary history -- Al-Andalus, Andalucia, and Morocco -- Franco's hajj -- The invention of Hispano-Arab culture -- Moroccan Alhambras -- The daughter of Granada and Fez -- Epilogue: the afterlife of colonial al-Andalus in contempora…
Tetouan is Granada -- Al-Andalus and Moroccan literary history -- Al-Andalus, Andalucia, and Morocco -- Franco's hajj -- The invention of Hispano-Arab culture -- Moroccan Alhambras -- The daughter of Granada and Fez -- Epilogue: the afterlife of colonial al-Andalus in contempora…
Through state-backed Catholicism, monolingualism, militarism, and dictatorship, Spain's fascists earned their reputation for intolerance. It may therefore come as a surprise that 80,000 Moroccans fought at General Franco's side in the 1930s. What brought these strange bedfellows…
Through state-backed Catholicism, monolingualism, militarism, and dictatorship, Spain's fascists earned their reputation for intolerance. It may therefore come as a surprise that 80,000 Moroccans fought at General Franco's side in the 1930s. What brought these strange bedfellows…