SOUFFLES MONDE
انفاس العالم
A Pan-African Journal & Platform
"Decolonizing Decoloniality"
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Souffles Monde: Issue #1
CULTURE AND DIFFERENCE IN MOROCCO
April 2023
Editorial - Hisham Aïdi, Aomar Boum, Brahim El Guabli, and Zakia Salime [EN]
Author Bio:
Hisham Aïdi is a political scientist and filmmaker. He is Senior Lecturer at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He is the author of Redeploying the State (Palgrave 2008) a comparative study of market reform and labor movements in Latin America; co-editor, with Manning Marable, of Black Routes to Islam (Palgrave 2009); and author of Rebel Music: Race, Empire and the New Muslim Youth Culture (Pantheon 2014). As a cultural reporter, his work has appeared in The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, The Nation and The New Yorker. Aïdi is the recipient of the Carnegie Scholar Award (2008), the American Book Award (2015), and the Hip Hop Scholar Award (2015). He is also director of three documentaries -- Malcolm X and the Sudanese (2020), A Thousand and One Berber Nights (2022) and Sister Aisha: Queen Mother of Harlem (2023).
Hisham Aïdi est politologue et cinéaste. Il est maître de conférences à la School of Inernational and Public Affairs de l’Université de Columbia. Il est l’auteur de Redeploying the State (Palgrave 2008), une étude comparative de la réforme du marché et des mouvements ouvriers en Amérique Latine ; coéditeur avec Manning Marable, de Black Routes to Islam (Palgrave 2009) ; et auteur de Rebel Music : Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture (Panthéon 2014). En tant que journaliste culturel, son travail a été publié dans The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, The Nation et The New Yorker. Aïdi est récipiendaire du Carnegie Scholar Award (2008), de l’American Book Award (2015) et du Hip Hop Scholar Award (2015). Il est également réalisatuer de trois documentaires – Malcolm X and the Sudanese (2020), A Thousand and One Berber Nights (2022) et Sister Aisha : Queen Mother of Harlem (2023).
Author Bio:
Moⵃamed Oubenⵄl is a researcher in sociology at the Institut Royal de la Culture Amazighe (IRCAM) in Morocco. He has a Ph.D. in sociology from Paris-Dauphine University. His research interests include economic sociology, sociology of culture and social network analysis. He is now studying the transformations of Amazigh society (article in Asinag; chapter in a book edited by IRCAM) as well as economic elites (articles in: Critique internationale ; Revue Marocaine des Sciences Politiques et Sociales).
Moⵃamed Oubenⵄl est chercheur en sociologie à l’IRCAM au Maroc. Il est docteur en sociologie de l’Université Paris-Dauphine. Ses intérêts de recherche incluent la sociologie économique, la sociologie de la culture et l’analyse des réseaux sociaux. Il étudie aujourd’hui les transformations de la société amazighe (article dans Asinag, chapitre d’un ouvrage édité par l’IRCAM) ainsi que les élites économiques (articles dans Critique Internationale et Revue Marocain des Sciences Politiques et Sociales).
Constructing National Identity in School History Curriculum - Ali Mouryf [EN]
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Ali Mouryf is an assistant researcher at the Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture (IRCAM) in Rabat. His research focuses on the teaching of history and construction identity, as well as the social and educational functions of school discourse in Morocco. He is also concerned with issues of education and training from the point of view of sociopolitical, cultural, and value analysis. He published several scientific articles and studies inside and outside Morocco. In addition to his academic preoccupations, he contributes, within the framework of civil society, to promote the values of citizenship, human rights education, and cultural and linguistic pluralism.
The Status of Black Moroccan Women: Color and Gender Stigmas- Yassine Yassni [EN]
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Yassine Yassni is a professor and researcher in sociology at the University Ibn Tofail, College of Literature and Social Sciences in Kenitra, Morocco.
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Najwa Belkziz specializes in the history, culture and politics of the modern Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Her primary line of inquiry explores questions related to memory, truth, and justice in post-conflict settings. Her research has been funded by the US Fulbright Program, the Georg Eckert Institute, and the University of Melbourne. Belkziz teaches writing at New York University in Abu Dhabi.
Najwa Belkziz est spécialisé dans l'histoire, la culture et la politique du Moyen-Orient et de l'Afrique du Nord (MENA) modernes. Son principal champ de recherche explore les questions liées à la mémoire, à la vérité et à la justice dans les contextes post-conflit. Ses recherches ont été financées par le programme américain Fulbright, le Georg Eckert Institute et l'Université de Melbourne. Belkziz enseigne l'écriture à l'Université de New York à Abu Dhabi.
Rethinking Racism in Countries of the Global South: Sub-Saharan Migration in Morocco- Fatima Ait Ben Lmadani [EN]
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Fatima Ait Ben Lmadani is a researcher at the Institute of African Studies at the University Mohammed V in Rabat. Her research interests are gender, migration, racism, and South/South mobility. Among her many publications, are: in 2023, with Hicham Hafid, Politique d’immigration au Maroc: Quelle integration des femmes et des mineurs subsahariens au Maroc (Editions la croisée des chemins); in 2018, “Senegalese Migrants in Morocco: From a Gender Perspective,” in Gender and Mobility in Africa (Palgrave) and La vieillesse illégitime? Migrantes marocaines en quête de reconnaissance sociale (Editions Bouregreg).
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Zakia Salime is a Fulbright scholar and Associate Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Sociology at Rutgers University. She was The Presidential Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies at Yale University and a Visiting Professor at the University Paris-8 Vincennes- Saint Denis. She is the author of Between Feminism and Islam: Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco (Minnesota 2011) and co-editor of Freedom Without Permission: Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions (Duke 2016). She has published extensively on gender, women's movement, Moroccan Islamism, and youth cultural and political movements in the MENA region and is currently working on a book manuscript on gender and land rights in Morocco. Salime's work was featured in The New York Times and The Washington Post. She is also co-editor of the book series “African Religions, Social Realities” with Ohio University Press.
Zakia Salime est boursière de Fulbright et professeur associée d’études sur les femmes, le genre et la sexualité et de sociologie à l’Université de Rutgers. Elle a été professeur associée invitee présidentielle au département d’études sur le genre et la sexualité des femmes à l’Université de Yale et professeur invitée à l’Université Paris-8 Vincennes-Saint Denis. Elle est l’auteur de Between Feminism and Islam: Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco (Minnesota 2011) et co-éditrice de Freedom Without Permission: Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions (Duke 2016). Elle a publié de nombreux articles sur le genre, le movement des femmes, l’islamisme marocain et les mouvements culturels et politiques des jeunes dans la region MENA et travaille actuellement sur un manuscript de livre sur le genre et les droits fonciers au Maroc. Le travail de Salime a été présenté dans le New York Times et le Washington Post. Elle est également co-éditrice de la série de livres « African Religions, Social Realities » avec Ohio University Press.
Bahá'is in Northwest Africa: A Transnational History of Religion, Race, and Ethnicity - Aomar Boum [EN, FR]
Author Bio:
Aomar Boum is Professor and Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies in the Department of Anthropology, Department of History and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. A historical anthropologist, Boum is interested in the place of religious and ethnic minorities such as Jews, Bahá’ís, Shias and Christian in post-independence Middle Eastern and North African nation states. He is the author of Memories of Absence: How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco (Stanford University Press, 2013), co-editor of Wartime North Africa: A Documentary history, 1934-1950 (Stanford University Press, 2022) and author of the graphic novel: Undesirables: A Holocaust Journey to North Africa (Stanford University Press, 2023).
Aomar Boum est professeur et titulaire de la chaire Maurice Amado d’études sépharades au département d’anthropologie, au département d’histoire et au département des langues et cultures du Proche-Orient de l’Université de Californie à Los Angeles. Comme un anthropologue historique, Boum s’intéresse à la place des minorités religieuses et ethniques telle que les juifs, les bahaïs, les chiites et les chrétiens dans la États-nations post-indépendence du Moyen-Orient et d’Afrique du Nord. Il est l’auteur de Memories of Absence : How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco (Stanford University Press, 2013), coéditeur de Wartime North Africa : A Documentary History, 1934-1950 (Stanford University Press, 2022) et auteur du roman graphique : Indésirables : Un voyage de l’Holocauste en Afrique du Nord (Stanford University Press, 2023).
Racialization in Exile: Allal al-Fassi’s Racial Positionalities in Gabon - Brahim El Guabli [EN, FR]
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An Indigenous Amazigh scholar, Brahim El Guabli is assistant professor of Arabic studies and comparative literature at Williams College, and the author of Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship after State Violence (Fordham University Press, 2023). He is currently completing a second book, provisionally titled “Saharan Imaginations: Between Saharanism and Ecocare.” El Guabli is also the co-editor of the two-volume LAMALIF: A Critical Anthology of Societal Debates in Morocco during the “Years of Lead” (1966–1988) (Liverpool University Press, 2022) and Refiguring Loss: Jews Remembered in Maghrebi and Middle Eastern Cultural Production (Penn State University Press, forthcoming). El Guabli's scholarly articles have appeared in Interventions, The Cambridge Journal of Literary Inquiry, PMLA, Arab Studies Journal, History in Africa, and the Yearbook of Comparative Literature, among others.
Universitaire autochtone amazigh, Brahim El Guabli est professur adjoint d’études arabes et de littérature comparée au Williams College et auteur de Moroccan Other-Archives : History and Citizenship after State Violence (Fordham University Press, 2023). Il termine actuellement un deuxième livre, provisoirement intitulé « Saharan Imaginations : Between Saharanism and Ecocare. » El Guabli est également co-éditeur des deux volumes LAMALIF : A Critical Anthology of Societal Debates in Morocco during the « Years of Lead » (1966 – 1988)(Liverpool University Press, 2022) et Refiguring Loss : Jews Remembered in Maghrebi and Middle Eastern Cultural Production (Penn State University Press, forthcoming). Les articles scientifiques d’El Guabli ont été publiés dans Interventions, The Cambridge Journal of Literary Inquiry, PMLA, Arab Studies Journal, History in Africa et Yearbook of Comparative Literature, entre autres.
Author Bio:
Aomar Boum is Professor and Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies in the Department of Anthropology, Department of History and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. A historical anthropologist, Boum is interested in the place of religious and ethnic minorities such as Jews, Bahá’ís, Shias and Christian in post-independence Middle Eastern and North African nation states. He is the author of Memories of Absence: How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco (Stanford University Press, 2013), co-editor of Wartime North Africa: A Documentary history, 1934-1950 (Stanford University Press, 2022) and author of the graphic novel: Undesirables: A Holocaust Journey to North Africa (Stanford University Press, 2023).
Aomar Boum est professeur et titulaire de la chaire Maurice Amado d’études sépharades au département d’anthropologie, au département d’histoire et au département des langues et cultures du Proche-Orient de l’Université de Californie à Los Angeles. Comme un anthropologue historique, Boum s’intéresse à la place des minorités religieuses et ethniques telle que les juifs, les bahaïs, les chiites et les chrétiens dans la États-nations post-indépendence du Moyen-Orient et d’Afrique du Nord. Il est l’auteur de Memories of Absence : How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco (Stanford University Press, 2013), coéditeur de Wartime North Africa : A Documentary History, 1934-1950 (Stanford University Press, 2022) et auteur du roman graphique : Indésirables : Un voyage de l’Holocauste en Afrique du Nord (Stanford University Press, 2023).
Author Bio:
Hisham Aïdi is a political scientist and filmmaker. He is Senior Lecturer at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He is the author of Redeploying the State (Palgrave 2008) a comparative study of market reform and labor movements in Latin America; co-editor, with Manning Marable, of Black Routes to Islam (Palgrave 2009); and author of Rebel Music: Race, Empire and the New Muslim Youth Culture (Pantheon 2014). As a cultural reporter, his work has appeared in The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, The Nation and The New Yorker. Aïdi is the recipient of the Carnegie Scholar Award (2008), the American Book Award (2015), and the Hip Hop Scholar Award (2015). He is also director of three documentaries -- Malcolm X and the Sudanese (2020), A Thousand and One Berber Nights (2022) and Sister Aisha: Queen Mother of Harlem (2023).
Hisham Aïdi est politologue et cinéaste. Il est maître de conférences à la School of Inernational and Public Affairs de l’Université de Columbia. Il est l’auteur de Redeploying the State (Palgrave 2008), une étude comparative de la réforme du marché et des mouvements ouvriers en Amérique Latine ; coéditeur avec Manning Marable, de Black Routes to Islam (Palgrave 2009) ; et auteur de Rebel Music : Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture (Panthéon 2014). En tant que journaliste culturel, son travail a été publié dans The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, The Nation et The New Yorker. Aïdi est récipiendaire du Carnegie Scholar Award (2008), de l’American Book Award (2015) et du Hip Hop Scholar Award (2015). Il est également réalisatuer de trois documentaires – Malcolm X and the Sudanese (2020), A Thousand and One Berber Nights (2022) et Sister Aisha : Queen Mother of Harlem (2023).