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Lyautey and the French Conquest of Morocco describes and analyzes the method of colonial conquest and rule linked to the name of Marshal Louis-Hubert Lyautey (1854-1934), France's first resident general in Morocco and the most famous of France's twentieth-century overseas soldie…
Sexe et mensonges, c'est la parole, forte et sincère, d'une jeunesse marocaine bâillonnée dans un monde arabe où le sexe se consomme pourtant comme une marchandise. Les femmes que Leila Slimani a rencontrées lui ont confié sans fard ni tabou leur vie sexuelle, entre soumission e…
At the turn of the century, the African country closest to Europe geographically was probably the least known. Morocco was a nation yet to emerge from the Middle Aged, violent and primitive, a place ruled by local warlords out of mud castles, and swept by religious fanaticism. T…
"In sixteenth-century Marrakesh, a Flemish merchant converts to Judaism and takes his Catholic brother on a subversive reading of the Gospels and an exploration of the Jewish faith. Their vivid Spanish dialogue, composed by an anonym in 1583, has until now escaped scholarly atte…
Introduction : Joining the War on Terror -- Middle Eastern states : responses to the War on Terror -- Reshaping Islam -- Moroccan Islam in the twenty-first century -- Anatomy of a religious bureaucracy -- Reshaping the state -- Gendered reforms in moderate Morocco -- Deploying M…
Your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you in Marrakesh. Plunge headfirst into the mapcap mayhem of Djemaa el-Fna, reflect on the beauty of Ali ben Youssef Medersa, spend the night in an atmospheric riad; …
In this unsettling and innovative book, anthropologist Stefania Pandolfo addresses the problematic of the subject through a dual examination of psychoanalysis and Islamic theological-medical reasoning, reflecting on the unconscious maladies of the soul at a time of tremendous gl…
"Through a dual engagement with the unconscious in psychoanalysis and Islamic theological-medical reasoning, Stefania Pandolfo's unsettling and innovative book reflects on the maladies of the soul at a time of tremendous global upheaval. Drawing on in-depth historical research a…
Memories of Absence investigates how four successive generations remember the lost Jewish community. Moroccan attitudes toward the Jewish population have changed over the decades, and a new debate has emerged at the center of the Moroccan nation: Where does the Jew fit in the co…
Once a thriving community, by the late 1980s, 240,000 Jews had emigrated from Morocco. Today fewer than 4,000 Jews remain. Despite a centuries-long presence, the Jewish narrative in Moroccan history has largely been suppressed through national historical amnesia, Jewish absence,…