Encountering Morocco introduces readers to life in this North African country through vivid accounts of fieldwork as personal experience and intellectual journey. We meet the contributors at diverse stages of their careers–from the unmarried researcher arriving for her first sti…
An introduction to life in the country of Morocco through accounts of fieldwork as personal experience and intellectual journey. The authors describe what it is like to live in a place where one is regarded as the outsider. They provide reflections on friendship, kinship, and be…
An introduction to life in the country of Morocco through accounts of fieldwork as personal experience and intellectual journey. The authors describe what it is like to live in a place where one is regarded as the outsider. They provide reflections on friendship, kinship, and be…
Or more than a century, urban North Africans have sought to protect and revive Andalusi music, a prestigious Arabic-language performance tradition said to originate in the lost paradise of medieval Islamic Spain. Yet despite the Andalusi repertoire s enshrinement as the national…
As authoritarian states in the MENA region are under increasing international pressure to decentralize political power, Janine A. Clark examines why Morocco initiated a process of decentralization as early as the 1970s while Jordan did not and the impact of their divergent paths…
The history of Morocco cannot effectively be told without the history of its Jewish inhabitants. Their presence in Northwest Africa pre-dates the rise of Islam and continues to the present day, combining elements of Berber (Amazigh), Arab, Sephardi and European culture. Emily Go…
The history of Morocco cannot effectively be told without the history of its Jewish inhabitants. Their presence in Northwest Africa pre-dates the rise of Islam and continues to the present day, combining elements of Berber (Amazigh), Arab, Sephardi and European culture. Emily Go…
Literary fiction has always provided an outlet for social and political critique. This book charts the rise of postcolonial literature written by women from the Maghreb, and provides an analysis of three of the region's prominent contemporary authors such as Assia Djeba (Algeria…
