"This book explores the body and the production process of popular culture in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey, and Iran in the first decade of the 21st century, and up to the current historical moment. Essays consider gender, racial, political, and cultural iss…
History and archeology of the influence of Rome on north Africa from about 200 B.C. to 700 A.D. "Nearly three thousand years ago the Phoenicians set up trading colonies on the coast of North Africa, and ever since successive civilizations have been imposed on the local inhabita…
Overture: Maghrebi women's transvergent cinema -- Transnational feminist storytellers: Shahrazad, Assia, and Farida. Assia Djebar's transvergent 'Nuba: the Nuba of the women of Mount Chenoua' (Algeria, 1978) -- Farida Benlyazid's initiation narrative: 'A door to the sky' (Morocc…
Examined within their economic, cultural & political context, the work of women Maghrebi filmmakers forms a cohesive body of work. Florence Martin examines the intersections of nation & gender in seven films, showing how directors turn around the politics of the gaze as they pla…
Examined within their economic, cultural, and political context, the work of women Maghrebi filmmakers forms a cohesive body of work. Florence Martin examines the intersections of nation and gender in seven films, showing how directors turn around the politics of the gaze as the…
Abdelkebir Khatibi (1938-2009) was among the most renowned North African literary critics and authors of the past century whose unique treatments of subjects as vast as orientalism, otherness, coloniality, aesthetics, linguistics, sexuality, and the nature of contemporary critiq…
Plural Maghreb: writings on postcolonialism
Abdelkebir Khatibi (1938-2009) was among the most renowned North African literary critics and authors of the past century whose unique treatments of subjects as vast as orientalism, otherness, coloniality, aesthetics, linguistics, sexuality, and the nature of contemporary critiq…
