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Maghrib in Past & Present | Podcasts

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Maghrib in Past & Present | Podcasts is a forum in which artists, writers, and scholars from North Africa, the United States, and beyond can present their ongoing and innovative research on and in the Maghrib. The podcasts are based on lectures, live performances, book talks, and interviews across the region. Aiming to project the scientific and cultural dynamism of research in and on North Africa into the classroom, we too hope to reach a wider audience across the globe.
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Episodes

The Buffalo Agency: Maghribi Ibadis in Cairo, 1850-1950

Episode 92: The Buffalo Agency: Maghribi Ibadis in Cairo, 1850-1950 In this interview, Paul Love discusses the early stages of his new book project on the history of Ibadi Muslims from the Maghrib who lived, worked, and studied in Ottoman Cairo. Tentatively titled The Buffalo Agency: Ibadi Muslims in Ottoman Cairo, the book follows the history of a trade agency, school, and library known as the ‘Buffalo Agency’ ( Wikalat al-jamus), operated by Ibadis for nearly four centuries in the Tulun distri...

Apr 29, 202027 minEp. 92

L'anthropologie des pratiques langagières dans le contexte maghrébin

Episode 91: L’anthropologie des pratiques langagières dans le contexte maghrébin L'anthropologie linguistique se donne pour objectif d’examiner, dans une perspective comparative, comment la langue façonne la vie sociale, la culture, l'identité et l'appartenance à un groupe social, et comment elle met en place des idéologies et des croyances culturelles dans la vie sociale. Langues, cultures et sociétés sont inextricablement liées. Les interroger suppose une approche interdisciplinaire mêlant ant...

Apr 22, 20202 hr 11 minEp. 91

Economic Policy in the Middle East and North Africa

Episode 90: Economic Policy in the Middle East and North Africa In this podcast, Dr. Shana Marshall frames global discussions on populist trends in the Middle East and North Africa. Dr. Marshall argues that populism is an articulation of global capitalism that is marked by an anti-elite sentiment and a class-based ideology. She considers that the rise of populism is due to the difficulty of dismantling the bureaucratic and professional structures that keep the “ultra-rich” protected. Dr. Marshal...

Apr 08, 202022 minEp. 90

France's Shattered Empire: Fascism and Republicanism in Colonial Tunisia, 1931-1944

Episode 89: France's Shattered Empire: Fascism and Republicanism in Colonial Tunisia, 1931-1944 In this podcast, Luke Sebastian Scalone , Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at Northeastern University , discusses his research project on “France's Shattered Empire: Fascism and Republicanism in Colonial Tunisia, 1931-1944.” In the midst of the ideological upheaval of the global 1930s, fascist movements developed in countries as wide ranging as France, Romania, Spain, and Sweden. However, ...

Apr 01, 202030 minEp. 89

Rencontre autour de l’ouvrage : La scientificité de l’empirisme en sociologie

Episode 88: Rencontre autour de l’ouvrage : La scientificité de l’empirisme en sociologie Cet ouvrage collectif, qui réunit plusieurs auteurs, est le résultat des actes d’une journée d’étude qui s’est tenue le 18 octobre 2015 à l’université de Bejaïa consacrée à La méthodologie : conceptions et pratiques et au cours de laquelle l’on a eu à débattre des différentes pratiques de la méthodologie. Les textes présentés ici ont fait corps d’idées débattues, proposées et parfois opposées, mettant au jo...

Mar 30, 20201 hr 9 minEp. 88

Building Habitat: The Atelier des Bâtisseurs in North Africa and Beyond

Episode 87: Building Habitat: The Atelier des Bâtisseurs in North Africa and Beyond In this podcast, Johanna Sluiter, PhD Candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, discusses the building habitat: The Atelier des Bâtisseurs in North Africa and Beyond. In 1949, the Atelier des Bâtisseurs (ATBAT) founded their first overseas bureau in Tangiers, Morocco. Having split with their mentor, Le Corbusier, and garnered worldwide attention for their first building site, the Unité d’Hab...

Mar 05, 202023 minEp. 87

The Arab Transformations Project

Episode 86: The Arab Transformations Project In this podcast, Professor Andrea Teti discusses the findings of the Arab Transformations Project. Led by Aberdeen University , the project carried out public surveys in seven Arab countries in late 2014 and compiled a longitudinal database. According to the survey data, Professor Andrea Teti examines the economic, social and political transformations in the region. The survey observations indicate challenging popular perceptions in relation to a broa...

Feb 19, 202031 minEp. 86

No Country for Young Men

Episode 85: No Country for Young Men In this podcast, Karim Zakhour , PhD candidate in Political Science at Stockholm University focuses on the relationship between young men in the margins and the state in periods of transition. By looking at everyday experiences of the state, Zakhour argues that one aspect of the Tunisian democratic transition and the opening of the public sphere has been a widespread deconstruction of the state. Another aspect is the increased opportunity for viewing the fail...

Feb 05, 202019 minEp. 85

Algérie, une autre histoire de l’indépendance. Messali Hadj

Episode 84: Algérie, une autre histoire de l’indépendance. Messali Hadj Dans ce Podcast, Dr. Nedjib Sidi Moussa , Historien à l'université de Paris I, présente son dernier ouvrage Algérie, une autre histoire de l’indépendance. Trajectoires révolutionnaires des partisans de Messali Hadj (Barzakh, 2019). Comment des Algériens sont-ils devenus révolutionnaires dès les années 1930 ? Et comment ont-ils mené leur révolution encore après 1962 ? Faire l'histoire du messalisme, expérience politique décis...

Jan 29, 202054 minSeason 1Ep. 84

Rencontre littéraire avec Elaine Mokhtefi

Episode 83: Rencontre littéraire avec Elaine Mokhtefi Dans ce podcast, Elaine Mokhtefi, auteur, présente son livre, Alger, capitale de la révolution. De fanon aux Black Panthers (Barzakh, 2019). La trajectoire d’Elaine Mokhtefi, jeune militante américaine, a, dès la guerre d’Algérie et pendant deux décennies, épousé celle de la cause algérienne. Ce combat la mène à New York, au siège des Nations unies avec la délégation du FLN ; à Accra, aux côtés de Frantz Fanon pour la conférence de l’Assemblé...

Jan 22, 202027 minSeason 1Ep. 83

Criminal Justice and the Formulation of State-Society Relations in Morocco

Episode 82: Criminal Justice and the Formulation of State-Society Relations in Morocco In this podcast, Fatim-Zohra El Malki seeks to retrace the socio-legal history of Morocco’s criminal justice system and its impact on the formulation of state-society relations. El Malki argues that Morocco’s Penal Code (PC) can serve as a useful object of analysis for tracing how the Moroccan state used the criminal system to deepen and consolidate its power following independence. Through the historicization...

Jan 16, 202014 minSeason 1Ep. 82

La socio-anthropologie rurale. Structure, organisation et changement au Maghreb

Episode 81: La socio-anthropologie rurale. Structure, organisation et changement au Maghreb Dans ce podcast, Pr. Hassan Rachik , Professeur d'anthropologie et Directeur du Centre Marocain des Sciences Sociales à l’Université Hassan II, Casablanca, Professeur visiteur dans des universités américaines, européennes et arabes, présente son dernier ouvrage Socio-anthropologie rurale : structure, organisation et changement au Maghreb (Editions la croisée des chemins, 2019). Le milieu rural tient une p...

Jan 08, 20201 hr 16 minSeason 1Ep. 81

La Méditerranée aux yeux des géographes maghrébins au Moyen Âge

Episode 80: La Méditerranée aux yeux des géographes maghrébins au Moyen Âge Dans ce podcast, Dr. Boutheina Ben Hassine , Maître de conférences à la Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences humaines de Sousse et Cheffe d’atelier d'histoire médiévale au laboratoire « Occupation du sol, peuplement et modes de vie au Maghreb antique et médiéval », présente une communication portant sur la vision spécifique des géographes et voyageurs maghrébins sur la Méditerranée tout au long du Moyen Âge. Ces géographe...

Dec 18, 201920 minSeason 1Ep. 80

Moroccan-American Archaeological Project of Ancient Sijilmasa

Episode 79: Moroccan-American Archaeological Project of Ancient Sijilmasa In this podcast, Prof. James Miller , Emeritus Professor of Geography at Clemson University, discusses the joint Moroccan-American archaeological project at the site of Sijilmasa, and the publication of that projects findings, The Last Civilized Place: Sijilmasas and Its Saharan Destiny (University of Texas Press, 2015). Co-authored with project director Prof. Ronald Messier , Emeritus Professor of History at Middle Tennes...

Dec 11, 201928 minEp. 79

Making the Dinar, Producing the State in Independent Tunisia

Episode 78: Making the Dinar, Producing the State in Independent Tunisia This interview focuses on the archives around the creation of the Tunisian Central Bank and the Tunisian dinar in 1958/1959. Looking at these documents as material assemblages, help illuminate how the making of national currency is a process that links state power and the production of the economy. Indeed, the entanglements between economic imaginaries and state power are revealed through the body of money, as national curr...

Dec 04, 201912 minSeason 1Ep. 78

Workshop sur « Écriture, mémoire et histoire »: Écrire ses mémoires ou comment parler de soi ?

Episode 77: Workshop sur: « Écriture, mémoire et histoire » Écrire ses mémoires ou comment parler de soi ? Elaine Mokhtefi est une écrivaine et peintre américaine. Elle est issue d’une famille de la classe ouvrière américaine de New York. La lutte pour l’indépendance l’a conduite à vivre douze ans en Algérie où elle a travaillé comme journaliste et traductrice. Elle s’est mariée à un ancien membre de l’Armée de libération nationale algérienne (ALN) devenu écrivain lui aussi, Mokhtar Mokhtefi, dé...

Nov 27, 20191 hr 4 minSeason 1Ep. 77

Youth Aspirations in the Gharb, Morocco

Episode 76: Youth Aspirations in the Gharb, Morocco In this podcast, David Balgley , Masters candidate in Arab Studies at Georgetown University , discusses some of the factors impacting the labor decisions of young people in the Gharb, including the ways in which gender, class, and access to productive capital create and constrain the opportunities for youth in the Moroccan countryside. In addition, he breaks down how young rural people negotiate the tension between maintaining social ties to th...

Oct 10, 201938 minSeason 1Ep. 76

The Husyanid Dynasty and Spatial Control and Judicial Control of the Enslaved Blacks of Tunis

Episode 75: The Husyanid Dynasty and Spatial Control and Judicial Control of the Enslaved Blacks of Tunis In this podcast, Dr. Ismael Montana , Associate Professor of History at Northern Illinois University , discusses the impact of the Husaynid dynasty (1705-1957) on the enslaved Sudanic communities of Tunis. Montana does so by looking at the Stambali , a ritual of musical possession based on the fusion of the Hausa Bori cult and popular Islam, performed primarily by the Sudanic communities of ...

Sep 25, 201920 minEp. 75

Volunteer Networks in the Mediterranean / Réseaux de volontariat en Méditerranée

Episode 74: Volunteer Networks in the Mediterranean / Réseaux de volontariat en Méditerranée Dans ce podcast, Brooke Durham , doctorante au département d'histoire à Stanford University , propose une étude du volontariat comme stratégie de développement en Algérie et au Maghreb avant et après l’indépendance en Algérie. Sa thèse cherche à mettre en valeur l’histoire des associations sociales en Algérie entre 1945 et 1972. Son travail sur les associations de volontariat en Algérie met en évidence l...

Sep 18, 201928 minSeason 1Ep. 74

Le Prix de l'Engagement Politique dans la Tunisie Autoritaire

Episode 73: Le Prix de l'Engagement Politique dans la Tunisie Autoritaire Dans ce podcast, Dr. Michaël Bechir Ayari discute son dernier livre, Le prix de l'engagement politique dans la Tunisie autoritaire . Cet ouvrage retrace l’histoire des militants tunisiens d’extrême gauche et du mouvement islamiste durant la période autoritaire tunisienne, et apporte une analyse biographique de leurs combats politiques de jeunesse. À travers cette perspective, l’apport essentiel de ce travail consiste en la...

Sep 11, 201956 minSeason 1Ep. 73

Moroccan Shari’a In The Age Of Colonialism

Episode 72: Moroccan Shari’a In The Age Of Colonialism In this podcast, Ari Schriber, PhD Candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University , discusses his research project entitled: 'Moroccan Shari’a in The Age of Colonialism.' Ari Schriber performed his dissertation fieldwork as a grantee of the American Institute of Maghrib Studies from 2018-2019. Likewise, he is a former Fulbright research grantee (2013-2014) and FLAS grantee (2012) in Morocco. He ...

Sep 04, 201937 minEp. 72

Rencontre littéraire avec Todd Shepard

Episode 71: Rencontre littéraire avec Todd Shepard In this podcast, Professor Todd Shepard , historian at Johns Hopkins University , discusses his book Sex, France, and Arab Men , 1962-1979 , which is a history of how and why, during the period from 1962 through 1979, highly sexualized claims about Arab men saturated important French public discussions. The sexual revolution in France, he argues, was profoundly shaped by the continuing effects of the Algerian war of liberation and its revolution...

Jul 21, 201927 minSeason 1Ep. 71

Interview with Mieczysław Boduszyński about his book: U.S. Democracy Promotion in the Arab World: Beyond Interests vs. Ideals

Episode 70: Interview with Mieczysław Boduszyński about his book : U.S. Democracy Promotion in the Arab World: Beyond Interests vs. Ideals In this podcast, Professor Mieczysław Boduszyński discusses his forthcoming book, U.S. Democracy Promotion in the Arab World: Beyond Interests vs. Ideals (Lynne Rienner, 2019), which looks at the place of democracy promotion in American foreign policy. Though a key pillar of U.S. foreign policy, democracy promotion is the subject of significant debate within ...

Jul 10, 201934 minSeason 1Ep. 70

Educational Transitions in Post-Revolutionary Spaces: Islam, Security, and Social Movements in Tunisia

Episode 69: Educational Transitions in Post-Revolutionary Spaces: Islam, Security, and Social Movements in Tunisia In this podcast, Dr. Tavis D. Jules is interviewed on his recent book, Educational Transitions in Post-Revolutionary Spaces : Islam, Security and Social Movements in Tunisia , co-authored with Dr. Teresa Barton. Jules and Barton trace the development of Tunisia’s educational system to the 2010/2011 contestatory events that led to the Tunisian Revolution and embarked on a period of l...

Jul 02, 201933 minSeason 1Ep. 69

Contrôler la Casbah: la police coloniale à Alger et Marseille, 1920-1950

Episode 68: Contrôler la Casbah: la police coloniale à Alger et Marseille, 1920-1950 Dans ce Podcast, Danielle Beaujon , doctorante en histoire à New York University, présente une conférence dans le cadre de ses recherches doctorales qui portent sur la thématique suivante : Contrôler la Casbah: La Police Coloniale à Alger et Marseille, 1920-1950. La police coloniale a rempli plusieurs fonctions dans les villes méditerranéennes de Marseille et Alger. Ses agents ont servi à la fois comme exécuteur...

Jun 27, 20191 hrSeason 1Ep. 68

William Wordsworth and te French Revolution

Episode 67: William Wordsworth and te French Revolution Dr. Mounir Khélifa studied English at the Sorbonne and Yale University where he received his MA and PhD, respectively. A professor of English language and literature for more than three decades, he taught poetics, comparative literature, and literary theory at the University of Tunis. Former director of the graduate program in English, Dr. Khélifa was also a senior advisor to the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, where h...

Jun 13, 20191 hr 15 minSeason 1Ep. 67

Tuning in to Morocco’s “Recitational Revival”

Episode 66: Tuning in to Morocco’s “Recitational Revival” According to some religious leaders and other intellectuals, Morocco is in the midst of a 'recitational revival' ( sahwa tajwidiyya ). Though its scope and effectiveness are not yet clear, the intention is a re-emphasis on two core Islamic disciplines that relate to recitation of the Qur’an: first, tajwid , a system of rules that govern pronunciation and rhythm of the Qur’anic text in recitation performance; and the variance of those rule...

Jun 03, 201936 minEp. 66

l'Oasis de Jemna en Tunisie, entre dissidence et négociation

Episode 65: l'Oasis de Jemna en Tunisie, entre dissidence et négociation Dans ce Podcast, Pr. Mohammed Kerrou, professeur de sciences politiques à la Faculté de Droit et des Sciences Politiques de Tunis , Université de Tunis El-Manar et Professeur visiteur dans plusieurs universités étrangères ( Aix-en-Provence , Tarragone , Rome La Sapienza , Yale University ...) présente une de ses enquêtes sur l'Oasis de Jemna. Située au Sud-Ouest tunisien, cette oasis est devenue dans le sillage de « la révo...

May 30, 20191 hr 28 minSeason 1Ep. 65

صناعة البحر المتوسط في المتخيلة الاسلامية، تصور المسلمين لمنطقة البحر المتوسط من خلال تاريخ الخرائط من القرن العاشر للقرن السادس عشر

Episode 64: صناعة البحر المتوسط في المتخيلة الاسلامية، تصور المسلمين لمنطقة البحر المتوسط من خلال تاريخ الخرائط من القرن العاشر للقرن السادس عشر (In Arabic) In this podcast, Dr. Tarek Kahlaoui presents his recent book, C reating the Mediterranean: Maps and the Islamic Imagination (Brill, 2017), in which he traces the depictions of the Mediterranean from from Islamic sources dating between the 9th to the 16th century. During that span, he argues, the profession of map-makers shifted from bureaucr...

May 15, 20191 hr 36 minSeason 1Ep. 64

Entretien avec Dr. Khadija Mohsen-Finan sur son dernier livre : Les Dissidents du Maghreb depuis les Independences

Episode 63: Entretien avec Dr. Khadija Mohsen-Finan sur son dernier livre : Les Dissidents du Maghreb depuis les Independences Dans ce podcast, Dr. Meriem Guetat , Directrice Adjointe du CEMAT, s’entretient avec Dr. Khadija Mohsen-Finan sur son dernier livre Les Dissidents du Maghreb depuis les Indépendences. L’ouvrage de Dr. Khadija Mohsen-Finan est l’un des premiers travaux post-2011 qui s’intéressent au concept de la dissidence à travers le Maghreb (Algérie, Maroc, Tunisie) et qui se base sur...

Apr 24, 201943 minSeason 1Ep. 63
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