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Unpublished letter by Moroccan thinker Abraham Serfaty (1991)

Issue 4

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Afro-Arab Trajectories

Hisham Aidi, Columbia University, USA

Les Noirs tunisiens et les pièges du projet d'homogénéisation de Bourguiba

Afifa Ltifi, Africana Studies and Research Center, Université Cornell, USA

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Invisible No More: The Saga of Tunisia’s First Nurse

Houda Mzioudet, Independent Researcher

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Lamine Senghor, Anti-Imperialism and Afro-Arab Solidarity in Interwar Paris

Oumar Ba, Cornell University, USA

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Islam and the Struggle for National Identity in Mauritania: Mediating Arabo-African Divides?

Baba Adou, University of Florida, USA

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The Changing Perceptions of Afro-Arab Identity in Kenya

Julius Nabende, Kenyatta University, Kenya

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Afro-Arab Marxism and the Zanzibar Revolution

Nathaniel Mathews, Binghamton University, USA

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Fanon, Senghor, and "Afro-Arab Civilization"

Hisham Aidi, Columbia University, USA

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Decolonizing the Desert: Saharan Arab Nationalism in the Writings of Muhammad Qashat

Ben Jones, Georgetown University, USA

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Al-Shamandura (The Buoy): A Nubian Communist and His Literary Imagination

Kribsou Diallou, Independent Scholar, Egypt

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Amílcar Cabral, Ghassan Kanafani, and the Weapon of Theory

Zeyad El-Nabolsy, York University, Toronto

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New Directions in Afro-Arab Studies: A View from the Gulf

Amal Ghazal, The Doha Institute, Qatar

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Interview: Black–Arab Encounters in Literature and Film

Touria Khannous

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Decolonizing the Race Debate about North Africa

Zakia Salime, Rutgers University, USA

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Neither African, nor Arab, or Half-African, Half-Arab?: On the Fluid Identity of the Gnawa

Zineb Faidi, Independent Researcher

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Claude McKay and His “Fatmas” on Morocco, Modernity, and Masculinity

Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik, Cornell University, USA

Issue 3

Articles

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Introduction: Morocco’s Palestine

Aomar Boum, University of California, Los Angeles, USA & Université Internationale de Rabat, Morocco and Brahim El Guabli, John Hopkins University, USA

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Laâbi, Kanafani, and the Ends of Theory: The Struggle Over National Literature in 1960s Morocco and Palestine

Adey Almohsen, Grinnell College, USA

Morocco’s Palestinian Politics/سياسة المغرب حيال فلسطين

Zakia Salime and Paul Silverstein/ مقال بقلم زكية سليم وبول سيلفرستاين نشر في مجلة MERIP: عدد 282 (خلال ربيع 2017).

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Palestine as Solidarity and Metaphor in Morocco’s Rif: Ahmed Amrani’s Palestina (1978) and Adelante (1979)

Tina Barouti, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA

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“Streets of Solidarity”: The Palestinianization of Morocco’s Public Spaces

Aomar Boum, University of California, Los Angeles, USA & Université Internationale de Rabat, Morocco and Abdessamad Fatmi, Independent Scholar, Morocco

Classic Texts Translated

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Moroccan Judaism and Zionism

Abraham Serfaty

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Address to the Wretched of Israel

Abraham Serfaty

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How We Approach the Palestinian Issue

Omar Benjelloun

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The Palestinian Cause Through Tetouan’s Memory

Hassna Mohamed Daoud, Daoud Library, Morocco

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Israel’s Role in Africa

Mehdi Ben Barka

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His Eminence Al-Hassan Ben Al-Mahdi, Khalifa of the Sultan in Northern Morocco as well as the Sahara, and the Palestinian Question

M’Hammad Benaboud, M’Hammad Ahmed Benaboud Foundation, Morocco

Personal Essays

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A Memory of a Radiant Magazine

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RABAT / JERUSALEM / PARIS / RABAT: A Journey to Palestine

Simone Bitton, Morocco

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Palestine

Salah El-Ouadie

Primary Documents: Introductory Note and Translations

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Morocco’s Ties to Palestine: A Primary Source Review

Aomar Boum, University of California, Los Angeles, USA & Université Internationale de Rabat, Morocco and Brahim El Guabli, John Hopkins University, USA

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Moroccan Jews’ Statement Against Displacement (1961)

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The Foundation of the Newspaper Palestine in 1968[1]: A Tool for a Moroccan Contribution to the Struggle of the Fraternal Palestinian People

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The Establishment of the Moroccan Association for Supporting the Palestinian Struggle (1968)

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Appeal to the Arab Maghreb’s Writers

By Intellectuals Affiliated with Souffles-Anfas

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Final Declaration of the First Islamic Summit Conference, Rabat, Morocco, 25 September 1969

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Resolution of the 6th Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 12-15 July 1975 [Excerpts]

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Resolutions of the First Session of Al-Quds Committee, Fez, Morocco, 2-3 July 1979

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Final Declaration of the 10th Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers (Palestine and Al-Quds Al-Sharif Session), Fez, Morocco, 8-12 May 1979 [Excerpts]

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Final Communiqué and Recommendations of the 15th Session of Al-Quds Committee, Ifrane, Morocco, 16-17 January 1995

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Final Communiqué and Recommendations Adopted by the Al-Quds Committee at Its 18th Session, Agadir, Morocco, 28 August 2000 [Excerpts]

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King Mohammed VI of Morocco, Chair of Al-Quds Committee, Communiqué Regarding the Preservation of Jerusalem and its Holy Places, 18 April 2001 [Excerpts]

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Rabat Manifesto

The National Charter Against Normalization

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The Moroccan Observatory against Normalization (2013)

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Proposal for a Law on Criminalizing Normalization with Israeli Entity (2013)

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Founding Statement of the Moroccan Front for the Support of Palestine and against Normalization (2021)

Sonic Archives: Classic Poems and Songs

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“Odes of Solidarity”: Moroccan Artists Amplify Palestine

Aomar Boum, University of Caifornia, Los Angeles, USA and Université Internationale de Rabat, Morocco and Brahim El Guabli, Johns Hopkins University, USA

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Palestine Plain and Simple

E. M. Nissaboury

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For Palestine

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Al-Quds

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Palestine

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Palestine

Nāss al-Ghiwāne

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You are Ours

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Kafr Qasim

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Stones Speak

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My Jerusalem

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Jerusalem/al-Quds

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Arab Nationalism: Where Is It?

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Rajawi Filistini (Rajawi Is Palestinian)

Raja Club Ultras’ song

References

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Morocco’s Palestine: A Bibliographic Essay

Aomar Boum, University of California, Los Angeles, USA and Université Internationale de Rabat, Morocco and Brahim El Guabli, John Hopkins University, USA

ROUNDTABLE

Preface

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Decolonization of Knowledge and Imaginaries in North Africa

Driss Ksikes, HEM Research Center, LCI-Education, Rabat

Roundtable

Penser en passant la frontière

Seloua Luste Boulbina, LCSP, Université de Paris

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Longing Together for a Decolonial Future through the Reclamation of Memory, Care, and Interdependence

Nadia Guessous, Colorado College (Morocco/USA)

The Field and Critique: A Contribution to Decolonizing Knowledge in the Social Sciences from the Field/ الميدان والنقد: مساهمة لتحرير المعرفة في العلوم الاجتماعية انطلاقا من الميدان

Mohamed Sammouni/ محمد سموني مختبر البحث حول التمايزات السوسيو- أنثروبولوجية والهويات الاجتماعية (LADSIS)، المغرب

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The habitations of linguistic coloniality: Towards a decolonial language politics in Morocco

Ahmed Kabel, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco

Médecine et colonialisme au Maroc sous protectorat français[1]

Reda Sadiki, Médecin et chercheur indépendant

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The colony is in the flesh: The Rif war and its embedded memories[1]

Zakaria Rhani and Badiha Nahhass, Mohammed V University, Morocco

Produire du savoir par l’enquête auprès des subalternes indigénéisés

Soraya El Kahlaoui, Ghent University, Belgique

Réemployer l’archive coloniale - Autour de Mémoire 14 d’Ahmed Bouanani

Mariam El Ajraoui, Abu Dhabi University, UAE

Essays

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Collaborative Ontologies and the Futures of Critical Theory

Mark LeVine and Lucia Sorbera, University of California, Irvine, USA and University of Sydney, Australia

Le problème du colonialisme: Assimilation, différence et théorie décoloniale en Afrique

Suren Pillay, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Conversations

Décoloniser nos savoirs par la fiction

Driss Ksikes avec Kebir Mustapha Ammi

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Revisiting the Thought of Economist Aziz Belal

Interview by Driss Ksikes with Noureddine El Aoufi

Issue 2

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Home and Belonging

Zakia Salime, Rutgers University, USA

طقوس الاستمطار في زمن التغيرات المناخية: مقاربة مكانية

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Place(less)ness in the Cemeteries of Fez

Yousra Sbaihi, University of Bayreuth, Germany

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Race as Index for Other Matters: Gender and the Language of Land Rights in Morocco

Zakia Salime, Rutgers University, USA

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Beyond Boundaries: A Ballet of Borders and Concepts

Ahlam Chemlali, Danish Institute for International Studies, Denmark

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Gendering Climate Change in Moroccan Souss-Massa

Loubna Ou-Salah, University of Antwerp, Belgium

المصالحة الصعبة: ورزازات تدخل عصر الطاقة الشمسية الاستخراجية

Brahim El Guabli, Williams College ابراهيم الكبلي, ويليامز كولدج

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“Black” Journeys: Place, Economic Segmentation, and Labor Migration

Aomar Boum, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Cueillir sans accueillir ou la fabrique de harragate des « dames de fraises en Espagne

Chadia Arab, Université d’Angers, France

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“You Had No Address”: Faiz Ahmed Faiz in Beirut

Sumayya Kassamali, University of Toronto, Canada

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Interview with Abdelmajid Hannoum, Author of The Invention of the Maghreb: Between Africa and the Middle East (Cambridge University Press, 2021)

Souffles Editors

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Souffles: Fifty Years Later

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Racialization in Exile: Allal al-Fassi's Racial Positionalities in Gabon

Brahim El Guabli

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Amaⵣ(z)iⵖ(gh) Proⵜesⵜ Music of ⵜhe Rif Region

Moⵃamed Oubenⵄl, IRCAM, Morocco

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Herstory: Racialization and Mediation in Colonial Morocco

Zakia Salime, Rutgers University, USA

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Rethinking Racism in Countries of the Global South: Sub-Saharan Migration in Morocco

Fatima Ait Ben Lmadani, University Mohammed V, Morocco

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Constructing National Identity in School History Curriculum

Ali Mouryf, IRCAM, Morocco

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Motherhood and Transitional Justice in Morocco

Najwa Belkziz New York University, Abu Dhabi, UAE

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Bahá'is in Northwest Africa: A Transnational History of Religion, Race, and Ethnicity

Aomar Boum, UCLA and Université Internationale de Rabat, USA

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The Status of Black Moroccan Women: Color and Gender Stigmas

Yassine Yassni, University Ibn Tofail, Morocco

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Decolonizing Gnawa Music

Hisham Aïdi, Columbia University, USA

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translations

Claude McKay and His “Fatmas” on Morocco, Modernity, and Masculinity

Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik, Cornell University, USA

New Directions in Afro-Arab Studies: A View from the Gulf

Amal Ghazal, The Doha Institute, Qatar

Neither African, nor Arab, or Half-African, Half-Arab?: On the Fluid Identity of the Gnawa

Zineb Faidi, Independent Researcher

Decolonizing the Race Debate about North Africa

Zakia Salime, Rutgers University, USA

Amílcar Cabral, Ghassan Kanafani, and the Weapon of Theory

Zeyad El-Nabolsy, York University, Toronto

Fanon, Senghor, and "Afro-Arab Civilization"

Hisham Aidi, Columbia University, USA

Islam and the Struggle for National Identity in Mauritania: Mediating Arabo-African Divides?

Baba Adou, University of Florida, USA

Lamine Senghor, Anti-Imperialism and Afro-Arab Solidarity in Interwar Paris

Oumar Ba, Cornell University, USA

Afro-Arab Trajectories

Hisham Aidi, Columbia University, USA

Interview: Black–Arab Encounters in Literature and Film

Touria Khannous

Al-Shamandura (The Buoy): A Nubian Communist and His Literary Imagination

Kribsou Diallou, Independent Scholar, Egypt

Decolonizing the Desert: Saharan Arab Nationalism in the Writings of Muhammad Qashat

Ben Jones, Georgetown University, USA

Afro-Arab Marxism and the Zanzibar Revolution

Nathaniel Mathews, Binghamton University, USA

The Changing Perceptions of Afro-Arab Identity in Kenya

Julius Nabende, Kenyatta University, Kenya

Invisible No More: The Saga of Tunisia’s First Nurse

Houda Mzioudet, Independent Researcher

“Odes of Solidarity”: Moroccan Artists Amplify Palestine

Aomar Boum, University of Caifornia, Los Angeles, USA and Université Internationale de Rabat, Morocco and Brahim El Guabli, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Address to the Wretched of Israel

Abraham Serfaty

Introduction: Morocco’s Palestine

Aomar Boum, University of California, Los Angeles, USA & Université Internationale de Rabat, Morocco and Brahim El Guabli, John Hopkins University, USA

Laâbi, Kanafani, and the Ends of Theory: The Struggle Over National Literature in 1960s Morocco and Palestine

Adey Almohsen, Grinnell College, USA

Resolutions of the First Session of Al-Quds Committee, Fez, Morocco, 2-3 July 1979

Palestine as Solidarity and Metaphor in Morocco’s Rif: Ahmed Amrani’s Palestina (1978) and Adelante (1979)

Tina Barouti, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA

Final Declaration of the 10th Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers (Palestine and Al-Quds Al-Sharif Session), Fez, Morocco, 8-12 May 1979 [Excerpts]

Resolution of the 6th Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 12-15 July 1975 [Excerpts]

Palestine Plain and Simple

E. M. Nissaboury

Founding Statement of the Moroccan Front for the Support of Palestine and against Normalization (2021)

Proposal for a Law on Criminalizing Normalization with Israeli Entity (2013)

Final Declaration of the First Islamic Summit Conference, Rabat, Morocco, 25 September 1969

Moroccan Jews’ Statement Against Displacement (1961)

The Palestinian Cause Through Tetouan’s Memory

Hassna Mohamed Daoud, Daoud Library, Morocco

“Streets of Solidarity”: The Palestinianization of Morocco’s Public Spaces

Aomar Boum, University of California, Los Angeles, USA & Université Internationale de Rabat, Morocco and Abdessamad Fatmi, Independent Scholar, Morocco

King Mohammed VI of Morocco, Chair of Al-Quds Committee, Communiqué Regarding the Preservation of Jerusalem and its Holy Places, 18 April 2001 [Excerpts]

Final Communiqué and Recommendations Adopted by the Al-Quds Committee at Its 18th Session, Agadir, Morocco, 28 August 2000 [Excerpts]

Final Communiqué and Recommendations of the 15th Session of Al-Quds Committee, Ifrane, Morocco, 16-17 January 1995

Morocco’s Palestine: A Bibliographic Essay

Aomar Boum, University of California, Los Angeles, USA and Université Internationale de Rabat, Morocco and Brahim El Guabli, John Hopkins University, USA

Rajawi Filistini (Rajawi Is Palestinian)

Raja Club Ultras’ song

Arab Nationalism: Where Is It?

Jerusalem/al-Quds

My Jerusalem

Stones Speak

Kafr Qasim

You are Ours

Palestine

Nāss al-Ghiwāne

Palestine

Al-Quds

For Palestine

The Moroccan Observatory against Normalization (2013)

Rabat Manifesto

The National Charter Against Normalization

Appeal to the Arab Maghreb’s Writers

By Intellectuals Affiliated with Souffles-Anfas

The Establishment of the Moroccan Association for Supporting the Palestinian Struggle (1968)

The Foundation of the Newspaper Palestine in 1968[1]: A Tool for a Moroccan Contribution to the Struggle of the Fraternal Palestinian People

Morocco’s Ties to Palestine: A Primary Source Review

Aomar Boum, University of California, Los Angeles, USA & Université Internationale de Rabat, Morocco and Brahim El Guabli, John Hopkins University, USA

Palestine

Salah El-Ouadie

RABAT / JERUSALEM / PARIS / RABAT: A Journey to Palestine

Simone Bitton, Morocco

A Memory of a Radiant Magazine

His Eminence Al-Hassan Ben Al-Mahdi, Khalifa of the Sultan in Northern Morocco as well as the Sahara, and the Palestinian Question

M’Hammad Benaboud, M’Hammad Ahmed Benaboud Foundation, Morocco

Israel’s Role in Africa

Mehdi Ben Barka

How We Approach the Palestinian Issue

Omar Benjelloun

Moroccan Judaism and Zionism

Abraham Serfaty

Decolonization of Knowledge and Imaginaries in North Africa

Driss Ksikes, HEM Research Center, LCI-Education, Rabat

Revisiting the Thought of Economist Aziz Belal

Interview by Driss Ksikes with Noureddine El Aoufi

The colony is in the flesh: The Rif war and its embedded memories[1]

Zakaria Rhani and Badiha Nahhass, Mohammed V University, Morocco

The habitations of linguistic coloniality: Towards a decolonial language politics in Morocco

Ahmed Kabel, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco

Longing Together for a Decolonial Future through the Reclamation of Memory, Care, and Interdependence

Nadia Guessous, Colorado College (Morocco/USA)

Collaborative Ontologies and the Futures of Critical Theory

Mark LeVine and Lucia Sorbera, University of California, Irvine, USA and University of Sydney, Australia

Interview with Abdelmajid Hannoum, Author of The Invention of the Maghreb: Between Africa and the Middle East (Cambridge University Press, 2021)

Souffles Editors

“You Had No Address”: Faiz Ahmed Faiz in Beirut

Sumayya Kassamali, University of Toronto, Canada

“Black” Journeys: Place, Economic Segmentation, and Labor Migration

Aomar Boum, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Gendering Climate Change in Moroccan Souss-Massa

Loubna Ou-Salah, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Beyond Boundaries: A Ballet of Borders and Concepts

Ahlam Chemlali, Danish Institute for International Studies, Denmark

Race as Index for Other Matters: Gender and the Language of Land Rights in Morocco

Zakia Salime, Rutgers University, USA

Place(less)ness in the Cemeteries of Fez

Yousra Sbaihi, University of Bayreuth, Germany

Home and Belonging

Zakia Salime, Rutgers University, USA

Rethinking Racism in Countries of the Global South: Sub-Saharan Migration in Morocco

Fatima Ait Ben Lmadani, University Mohammed V, Morocco

Souffles: Fifty Years Later

Decolonizing Gnawa Music

Hisham Aïdi, Columbia University, USA

The Status of Black Moroccan Women: Color and Gender Stigmas

Yassine Yassni, University Ibn Tofail, Morocco

Amaⵣ(z)iⵖ(gh) Proⵜesⵜ Music of ⵜhe Rif Region

Moⵃamed Oubenⵄl, IRCAM, Morocco

Constructing National Identity in School History Curriculum

Ali Mouryf, IRCAM, Morocco

Motherhood and Transitional Justice in Morocco

Najwa Belkziz New York University, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Racialization in Exile: Allal al-Fassi's Racial Positionalities in Gabon

Brahim El Guabli

Herstory: Racialization and Mediation in Colonial Morocco

Zakia Salime, Rutgers University, USA

Bahá'is in Northwest Africa: A Transnational History of Religion, Race, and Ethnicity

Aomar Boum, UCLA and Université Internationale de Rabat, USA

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