This dissertation argues that recent literary representations of migration from Africa to Spain — composed by African authors — hold the potential to create alternative visions of gender, identity, and the nation. I analyze the work of a variety of African writers—Donato Ndongo’…
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Family history in the Islamic Middle East was born in the early 1990s from a shared concern to avoid sweeping generalizations and accumulate the basic facts about residential and family life. However, both the current scientific discourse and the one that preceded it are based u…
The rise of religious politics throughout the world has called into question the assumption that political secularization would inevitably occur with modernization, and has created the impression that this political challenge represents a dichotomous conflict between the religio…
This study focuses on three major Maghreb states (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia) with distinct institutional, political and socioeconomic patterns. It essentially tackles the issue of technological development particularly investments, trade, human capital and patents in a social…
Toute démarche thérapeutique, visant à interpréter la maladie et à la transformer en un état de santé, révèle une herméneutique culturelle qui autorise la mise en ordre du monde. Ainsi les pensées médicale et symbolique s'inscrivent-elles dans un réseau d'interactions dynamiques…
In the dissertation I explore the dynamics of production, exchange, and power in the town of Wazzan in northern Morocco. I focus on Wazzan's two salient realms of activity, its weaving trade and its religious order. I argue that underlying both domains is a similar generative se…
This thesis uses social movement theory to examine how the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and the Moroccan Justice and Development Party (PJD) frame their roles in the 2011 Arab uprisings and in the political shifts that followed. My primary theoretical lens is the concept of…
The goal of this paper is to inspect to what extent there is a correlation between foreign investments and the increasing levels of corruption in Moroccan companies. To narrow the scope of my paper, I have chosen to use a case of corruption that involved Royal Air Maroc and Bays…
This dissertation locates and analyzes the mechanisms and forms of urban change that accompanied the forced mass migration of the Moriscos, descendants of Spanish Muslims forcibly converted to Catholicism. The Moriscos, converted between 1501 and 1526, and expelled first from Gr…
Few world cities can claim to have had as much of an impact on American literature as the Moroccan city of Tangier. The writers who resided in or passed through the city in the 1950s and the works of literature produced there have re-charted the course of American letters. Tangi…
After French colonization of Algeria in 1830, the expansion of France into additional colonies was a slow process. By 1900, few new colonies had been added to the French Empire and significant interest in colonization was limited to 10,000 men, the colonialists, who dedicated th…
This dissertation was written to complement a recorded archive of the music of the Jillala brotherhood of Tangier, Morocco, available at the Ethnomusicology Department of the Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York. The paper is in two parts: an …
This study deploys the Spanish illustrator Francisco Rivero Gil (1899-1972) as a paradigmatic figure of the graphic arts in order to explore the relationships between image and text being played out in representation as expressions of Spain's unique process of modernization. The…
Convivencia, or conviviality/coexistence, represents a pivotal node in Spanish ideologies of multiculturalism. Touted as the legacy of interreligious harmony in Al-Andalus (A.D. 711-1492), contemporary pedagogical convivencia involves policies, curricula, and activities which id…
The Moroccan Gnawa—widely understood to be the descendants of slaves from sub-Saharan Africa—practice ritualized healing involving spirit possession with a vast Afro-Maghrebi musical repertoire. Because the role of Gnawa music in ritual is that of healing, musical aesthetics are…
This paper examines the question of whether the 2004 reform of the Moroccan Moudawana law resulted in improved outcomes for Moroccan women by examining changes in attitudes towards women and women's economic activity before and after 2004. Using two waves of the World Values Sur…
Based on the works of three postcolonial Maghrebian writers, this study focuses on different aspects of exclusion and the relevance, of current Western thinkers approaches to the role of intellectuals. While Sartre, Foucault, Gramsci, Bourdieu and others all provide useful categ…
At the end of the seventies, the French researcher Michel Ponsich published the preliminary results of his excavations in the north-african settlement of Kouass (Arcila, Morocco). He put emphasis on a set of glasses which are reminiscent of Campanien productions. Nevertheless, s…
The Betic Cordillera of Spain and the Moroccan Rif constitute the northern and southern branches of the Gibraltar Arc, which is the western limit of the Alpine-Mediterranean system. The frontal units (i.e. the Guadalquivir Allochton of the Betic Cordillera and the Prerifaine Nap…