Episode 122: Sur les manuscrits ibâdites des anciens “Siyar” et en particulier l’ouvrage de Shammâkhi (9e / 15e siècle) Constituant une ressource appréciable pour les sciences humaines et sociales, les manuscrits berbères écrits en caractères arabes sont répartis un peu partout dans les pays du Maghreb. Un bon nombre de ces manuscrits se trouve dans des bibliothèques publiques mais beaucoup d’autres appartiennent à des particuliers. La journée d’étude organisée par le Centre d'Études Maghrébines...
May 20, 2021•24 min•Ep. 122
Episode 121: Libya: Continuities and Discontinuities of Political Order After 2011 To what extent is the political instability witnessed in Libya since 2011 an inheritance of the ousted regime of Mu'ammar al-Gaddafi, which ruled the country for over four decades? In his new article in Middle East Law and Governance , "Of Conflict and Collapse: Rethinking State Formation in Post-Gaddafi Libya," Emadeddin Badi of the Atlantic Council and Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime disc...
May 06, 2021•27 min•Ep. 121
Épisode 120: La dimension berbère dans les manuscrits arabes du Maghreb. Essai de lecture de quelques documents Constituant une ressource appréciable pour les sciences humaines et sociales, les manuscrits berbères écrits en caractères arabes sont répartis un peu partout dans les pays du Maghreb. Un bon nombre de ces manuscrits se trouve dans des bibliothèques publiques mais beaucoup d’autres appartiennent à des particuliers. La journée d’étude organisée par le Centre d'Études Maghrébines en Algé...
Apr 29, 2021•12 min•Ep. 120
Episode 119:الحدود المجتمعية: قراءة في أشكال التمزق ومقترح في سبل الاندماج يتتبع ماهر الزغلامي في هذه الحوارية المعنونة بـ"الحدود المجتمعية: قراءة في أشكال التمزّق و مقترح في سبل الاندماج"، أشكال الانقسام الاجتماعي التي تعيد إنتاج نفسها باستمرار ضمن نظام تسلسلي للشروخ المجتمعية. وهو ما يحاول قراءة تمظهراته في المجالين الثقافي والديني، حيث يماثل بين العجز عن إنتاج "الأغنية التونسية" (معرفة بالألف واللاّم) والفشل في إنتاج "سردية للإسلام التونسي"، اعتباراً للخلل الوظيفي الذي اعترى عملية التحديث الف...
Apr 22, 2021•44 min•Ep. 119
Episode 118:الديناميكية الحضرية والتحولات السوسيواقتصادية بالتجمعات الحدودية الواقعة على المحور برج باجي مختار- تمنارست تعد الاقاليم الحدودية الجنوبية للجزائر مجالات جغرافية ديناميكية سوسيواقتصادية معتبرة، بحيث تشهد التجمعات الحضرية الحدودية الواقعة على المحور برج باجي مختار - تمنراست تحولات مجالية واجتماعية واقتصادية متسارعة. هذا المحور مجال طبيعي غني بمختلف الثروات المعدنية ومصادرالطاقة والماء ، ومجال بشري يمتاز بخصوصيات اجتماعية وعرقية وثقافية شكلت هويته وفق انظمة عرفية لتسيير المجال و مراقبت...
Apr 15, 2021•27 min•Ep. 118
Episode 117: Description de quelques manuscrits mystico-religieux de Kabylie. Constituant une ressource appréciable pour les sciences humaines et sociales, les manuscrits berbères écrits en caractères arabes sont répartis un peu partout dans les pays du Maghreb. Un bon nombre de ces manuscrits se trouve dans des bibliothèques publiques mais beaucoup d’autres appartiennent à des particuliers. La journée d’étude organisée par le Centre d'Études Maghrébines en Algérie ( CEMA ) intitulée: Reflexions...
Apr 08, 2021•34 min•Ep. 117
Episode 116: Ahmed Cherkaoui in Warsaw: Polish-Moroccan Artistic Relations during the Cold War, 1955-1980 In this podcast, Dr. Przemysław Strożek reflects on Polish-Moroccan artistic relations between 1955 and 1980. He situates them within the broader historical phenomenon of a political and cultural rapprochement between countries of the Eastern Bloc and of the Global South during the Cold War. Focusing on Ahmed Cherkaoui’s sojourn in Warsaw from October 1960 to July 1961, he traces the artist’...
Apr 01, 2021•42 min•Ep. 116
Episode 115: Les significations profanes de la pandémie Covid-19 à Oran Dans ce podcast, Pr. Mohamed Mebtoul présente les résultats de son enquête menée à Oran, avec la participation de l’Association Santé Sidi El Houari et L’Observatoire Régional de la Santé d’Oran sur les significations profanes de la pandémie Covid-19. D'après lui, les mots, les métaphores et les propos des personnes sont essentiels pour comprendre les sens attribués à la pandémie Covid-19 à Oran. Les sens du mal sont impor...
Mar 25, 2021•35 min•Ep. 115
Episode 114: Entretien avec Dr. Asma Nouira : Les relations entre l'État et la religion en Tunisie Dans ce podcast, Dr. Asma Nouira présente ses recherches sur les relations entre l'État et la religion en Tunisie. Ayant commencé avec une analyse du rôle du Mufti de la République en Tunisie, le spectre de cette recherche s'est élargi pour inclure les divers acteurs religieux en Tunisie, notamment après la révolution du 14 janvier 2011. Dr. Nouira analyse l'évolution de cette dynamique relationnel...
Mar 18, 2021•33 min•Ep. 114
Episode 113: À la découverte de copies manuscrites d'une même œuvre : Le 'Kitâb al-siyar' de Wisyânî, un auteur Ibâdite Nord-Africain du 6ème AH. / 12ème Constituant une ressource appréciable pour les sciences humaines et sociales, les manuscrits berbères écrits en caractères arabes sont répartis un peu partout dans les pays du Maghreb. Un bon nombre de ces manuscrits se trouve dans des bibliothèques publiques mais beaucoup d’autres appartiennent à des particuliers. La journée d’étude organisée ...
Mar 11, 2021•34 min•Ep. 113
Episode 112: Terra Incognita: Mapping the Afterlives of French Nuclear Imperialism in the Sahara How can aesthetic works and humanities training help us to apprehend the danger that nuclear toxicity poses to ecological health and human life? Taking off from the premise that French maps of the Sahara Desert have long served to enable military occupation and violent erasure, this podcasts explores how aesthetic works such as film and photography can act as countercartographies that push back again...
Mar 04, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 112
Episode 111: Non-State Actors and State-Building in Libya after 2011 In this podcast, Professor Amal El-Obeidi discusses power struggles in Libya, as well as the country's instability since 2011. In the absence of a central state after the fall of Qaddafi's regime, processes of national reconciliation and transitional justice have been ineffective. Additionally, the increased number of municipalities after 2014 has led to new political divisions. El-Obeidi argues that local-level governing coali...
Feb 25, 2021•29 min•Ep. 111
Episode 110: Centralization and Decentralization in the Middle East and North Africa In this podcast on local governance in Morocco and Jordan, Dr. Janine A. Clark , Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto , examines how decentralization and centralization mechanisms are implemented at the municipal level. She asks why Morocco decentralized while Jordan did not. Relying on the history of electoral politics and municipal laws in both countries, her research covers the periods ...
Feb 18, 2021•44 min•Ep. 110
Episode 109: Bread and Circuits: Illness, Food, and French Algeria In the midst of ongoing drought, famine, and epidemic disease in the 1860s, a few settlers in Algiers got sick with a mysterious illness. Investigations determined that the culprit was construction debris from the Haussmannization of Paris, shipped across imperial channels and then used as fuel in a few Algiers bakeries. Lead pain become poison in loaves as this material combusted in colonial bread ovens. The modernization of the...
Feb 11, 2021•51 min•Ep. 109
Episode 108: Anti-Elitism in Tunisia: Condition of Political Success? In this podcast, Associate Professor Tarek Kahlaoui reflects on populism in the post-revolutionary context of Tunisia. Kahlaoui questions the idea of an umbrella definition of Tunisian populism, a misleading term that overlooks important nuances. He asks whether populism is a real threat to representative democracy. He compares the two distinctive frontrunners of the 2019 presidential elections, Kais Saied and Nabil Karoui. As...
Feb 04, 2021•20 min•Ep. 108
Episode 107: الشعبوية: قراءة حول المثال التونسي في هذا التسجيل الصوتي، يناقش الأستاذ محمد شفيق صرصار آثار الخطاب الشعبوي الذي عرفه المشهد السياسي التونسي منذ 2011 على نتائج الانتخابات المتعاقبة في البلاد، كما يربط هذه الظاهرة ببروز الشخصيات السياسية الشعبوية في الإنتخابات الرئاسية والتشريعية ل 2019. ويأتي الأستاذ صرصار على العوامل التي أعدت المناخ السياسي التونسي لصعود الخطابات الشعبوية مؤكدا على أن تظافر أزمة الأحزاب السياسية والمؤسسات الديمقراطية بتعمق الإشكاليات الاجتماعية والاقتصادية، قد عبّ...
Feb 04, 2021•14 min•Ep. 107
Episode 106: Populism and the Crisis of the Republic In this podcast, Professor Charles Tripp argues that populism is a form of collective politics that embodies distinct ideas, particularly those about popular sovereignty. Populism, he stresses, claims to communicate and respond directly to the political base – the people – by passing increasingly unpopular political elites and institutions. Three features characterize populism: (1) demagogic simplification; (2) anti-representative confrontatio...
Feb 04, 2021•17 min•Ep. 106
Episode 105: Jedba, Jinns, and Hāl: Bodily Modalities of Mental-Emotional Health and 'Musico-thérapie' in Algeria In this podcast, Dr. Tamara Turner illustrates the inextricable relationship between mental-emotional health, sound, and consciousness through a spectrum of 'psychological' states that are locally mapped in Algeria as bodily modalities: jedba, hāl, and bori. These three bodily modalities constitute a wide and fluctuating spectrum of musically-cultivated, ritual trance dancing seen in...
Jan 28, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 105
Episode 104: Of Jinn Theory and Germ Theory: Translating Bacteriological Medicine and Islamic Law in Algeria In this podcast, focusing on colonial Algeria c. 1890 to 1940, Dr. Hannah-Louise Clark explores how Muslim intellectuals and ordinary people learned about microbes and responded to bacteriological medicine. Many Algerians feared invisible spirits ( jinn ) and sought the healing powers of saints and exorcists. Was it then permitted to use French treatments and follow rules of Pasteurian hy...
Jan 20, 2021•56 min•Ep. 104
Episode 103: On Memory, Remembering, and Mourning in the Maghrib Since the Tunisian Revolution In this podcast, Dr.Idriss Jebari contemplates the outpouring of memory from the former leftists of the Perspectives movement, following the 2011 Tunisian Revolution. In a series of published memoirs, the likes of Gilbert Naccache, Fethi Ben Haj Yahia and others take their readers from their experience of prison in the sixties and seventies, as well as their reflections on critical moments of Tunisia's...
Jan 13, 2021•43 min•Ep. 103
Episode 102: Conversation with Lisa Anderson and Tarek Kahlaoui: Reflections on Tunisia's State Building History and Contemporary Democratization Experience In this discussion, Lisa Anderson and Tarek Kahlaoui reflect on Tunisia's post-independence state-building history and the country's contemporary democratization experience. The conversation draws listeners to the transformative moments that preceded the 2011 Revolution, which had subsequent pivotal effects. Reflecting on their own intellect...
Jan 13, 2021•38 min•Ep. 102
Episode 101: "Willis from Tunis, 10 ans et toujours vivant!" - Entretien avec Nadia Khiari Le chat Willis from Tunis est né jeudi le 13 janvier 2011 au moment où le président tunisien déchu, Ben Ali, prononçait un discours dans lequel il promettait, entre autres, la liberté d'expression. Cette chronique graphique était pour l'auteur un moyen de partager avec son entourage direct via les réseaux sociaux, son ressenti vis-à-vis de la situation politique que la Tunisie vivait. Sur un ton satirique,...
Jan 13, 2021•26 min•Ep. 101
Episode 100: Constitution-making Processes during Democratization: Egypt and Tunisia after the 2010/11 Uprisings In this podcast, Dr. Tereza Jermanová, discusses the differences in the constitution-making processes and design in Tunisia and Egypt during their transitions. Dr. Jermanová looks at how constitution-making procedures are perceived as, on the one hand, constraints –that might restrict the ability of majority actors to debate and set the rules for how a constitution will be made; and o...
Jan 07, 2021•23 min•Ep. 100
Episode 99: Oran, The Plague and COVID 19 The French critical tradition has seen in Camus’ La peste (1947) an allegorical representation of German occupation, during the Second World War. He staged it in Oran, a coastal town in French Algeria, at the time, closed to the rest of the world because of a plague pandemic. The recent COVID-19 pandemic that flared up through the world sparked off reminiscences of the novel, which remains a master piece of French literature because of its most realistic...
Nov 12, 2020•40 min•Ep. 99
Episode 98: En hommage à feu Pr. Abdelkader Lakjaa La méthode n'enfante pas d'idées par elle-même En hommage à feu Pr. Abdelkader Lakjaa, Sociologue à l'Université d'Oran 2, qui nous a quittés le 7 novembre 2020, nous vous proposons de réécouter sa communication intitulée " La méthode n'enfante pas d'idées par elle-même ", programmée dans le cadre de la rencontre autour de l'ouvrage collectif La scientificité de l'empirisme en sociologie , coordonné par Pr. Abdel-Halim Berretima, Sociologue à l’...
Nov 09, 2020•28 min•Ep. 98
Episode 97: Maghrébins en Méditerranée: Complicités corsaires maghrébines à l'époque moderne entre Méditerranée et Atlantique La journée d’étude « Maghrébins en Méditerranée » s’inscrit dans le prolongement du workshop « La Méditerranée vue d’Afrique du Nord » organisé par l’Institut Américain d’Études Maghrébines en juillet 2019 à Tunis. Cette journée d’études, coordonnée par Pr. Fatima Zohra Guechi, se penche sur la présence et les rôles des Maghrébins en Méditerranée entre le 16ème et 19ème s...
Jul 22, 2020•37 min•Ep. 97
Episode 96: Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa In this podcast, Professor Jacob Mundy examines the historical and geographical definition and categorization of the MENA region through the discourse of the “everywhere war”, questioning the middle east as a permanent structure of conflict. In nowhere else in the world, war-particularly foreign intervention-is as prevalent and constant as in the MENA region. Professor Mundy argues that the creation of the MENA region as an identity compon...
Jul 15, 2020•59 min•Ep. 96
Episode 95: Medieval Ifriqiya & the Emergence of the Hafsid Dynasty In this podcast, Samantha Cloud , PhD candidate in the Department of History at Saint Louis University , discusses her work on medieval Ifriqiya and the emergence of the Hafsid dynasty. The Hafsid dynasty ruled Medieval Ifriqiya (roughly the territory of modern-day Tunisia, Eastern Algeria, and parts of Libya) from the 13th through the 16th century. The self-proclaimed inheritors of the Almohad empire, the Hafsids were the f...
Jun 10, 2020•33 min•Ep. 95
Episode 94: Students in Tunisia, 1963-1979 In this podcast, Dr. Idriss Jebari discusses the student question’s emergence in the context of the Parisian radical sixties and the importance of Maoist insights. Jebari examines the way Perspectives seized on the “student question” in its journal in relation to the state’s reforms in the education sector and its discourse on youth faced with contestation. Jebari explores how the repressive events of 1968 and 1973 were highly revealing of Bourguiba’s t...
May 19, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 94
Episode 93: The Transmission and Effectivity of the Ma’luf Tradition, an Andalusian Music within Tunisia and Libya In this podcast, Jared Holton discusses the transmission and effectivity of ma'luf , an Andalusian musical tradition of North Africa. Holton’s research project explores the historical and ethnographic circulations of Tunisian and Libyan ma'luf primarily through the tubu' , which are recognized as stabilized structures of sound and identity. Jared has completed extensive fieldwork in...
May 09, 2020•25 min•Ep. 93
