Podcasts about moroccan studies

Episode 143: The "Lush Garden" of Andalusian Music   In this podcast, Dr. Carl Davila explores the Andalusian music tradition of Morocco, known as al-ala, through the written song collections, such as the famous Kunnash al-Ha'ik. By examining the literary record, embodied in around 40 handwritten manuscripts found in libraries across Europe and North Africa, we can come to understand the evolution of the repertoire over the past two and a half centuries. Of special interest here is a little-known work called al-Rawdat al-Ghanna' fi Usul al-Ghina' ("The Lush Garden for the Principles of Song'') of which there are just three surviving copies — including one in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Rabat. In this podcast we will explore such questions as: Who wrote this work, and when? What is actually in it? And perhaps most significant: Where does it fit in the history of the written repertoire of Andalusian music?   Dr. Carl Davila holds a PhD in Arabic Studies from Yale University (2006). He lived in Fez off and on for nearly three years in the early 2000s and has visited Morocco frequently since then. Being the first scholar to write extensively in English on the Andalusian music in Morocco, he has published two monographs and numerous articles on the cultural, historical and literary aspects of this grand musical tradition. At the moment, he is developing a book series with E.J. Brill that will present English translations and commentary for all eleven nubas in the modern and historical repertoires. He is currently Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York in Brockport.   This episode was recorded on April 21st, 2022 at the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM).  To see related slides, please visit our website : www.themaghribpodcast.com Posted by Hayet Lansari, Librarian, Outreach Coordinator, Content Curator (CEMA).

Episode 132: Queens Of Words: Moroccan Women Zajal Poets In this podcast, Catherine Cartier speaks about Queens Of Words: Moroccan Women Zajal Poets. Zajal, which flourished in 14th century Andalusia, is a genre of poetry composed in spoken Arabic—Moroccan Arabic/Darija in this case. The genre reemerged in postcolonial Morocco, when it was largely published in newspapers. The recent history of zajal may appear male dominated: the 1992 edition of Afaq, the Journal of the Moroccan Writer's Union, highlighted modern zajal poetry but included only one poem by a woman poet. But many Moroccan women who write zajal today look to history for inspiration, often citing Kharbousha, an iconic figure who resisted oppressive rulers through her poetry, as an example they seek to emulate. Beyond this, Facebook and TikTok, provide a rich and accessible realm for sharing poetry. Her research, grounded in interviews with zajalat (women zajal poets) and close readings of their work, examines how and why Moroccan women write zajal poetry today, and what their experiences on and off the page can tell us about Darija as a literary language. Catherine Cartier received her B.A. in History and Arab Studies in May 2020 from Davidson College (USA). Prior to Fulbright, she worked as an investigative intern and consultant at the Center for Advanced Defense Study and reported as an independent journalist from Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, and Tajikistan. Her Fulbright research examines zajal poetry written by Moroccan women. This episode was recorded on September 22, 2021 at the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM).    Posted by Hayet Lansari, Librarian, Outreach Coordinator, Content Curator (CEMA).

Episode 131: Roots And Traces Of Contemporary Cultural Life In Tangier In this discussion at Youmein 2021: Roots and Traces, anthropologist George Bajalia and journalist Aida Alami explore the roots and traces of contemporary cultural life in Tangier, especially as they relate to northern Morocco's border regions.  From questions of diversity and difference to the roots of present debates around representation, responsibility, and justice, Youmein 2021: Roots and Traces was an open-ended artistic inquiry into how the structures of our past have shaped our current moment. The traces of this past appear in unexpected places, both institutionally and in the social milieu from which we develop artistic reflections. Uncomfortable inequities and realities sit adjacent to the rise of powerful populist and progressive movements worldwide. Since Youmein began in 2014, xenophobia, isolationism, and neo-imperialism have grown simultaneously with new forms of solidarities and ways of being in-common. How will these movements leave their traces in our shifting social orders, and how will they transform, sediment, and root themselves differently? So far, each edition of the Youmein Festival has taken on themes speaking to Tangier as a space of both border and bridge: al-barzakh, crisis, imitation, limit(s), and desire. This year, those themes became the fertile ground on which we will reconvene and dig deep into what has come before and make choices about where we want to go next. After a year of isolated reflections, and alongside the Bicentennial of the Tangier-American Legation, Youmein invited the artists, speakers, and the public to critically reflect on the view from Tangier, and the cultures, peoples, and conditions which compose it.  As a part of the 2021 Youmein Festival, Alami and Bajalia reflected on Tangier and its myths, past and present, and alternative cultural histories and present realities in this corner of the Strait of Gibraltar. From Maalem Abdellah Gourd and the renovation of his home in Tangier medina to the role of the Tangier American Legation Museum in the city, they share thoughts how different flows of people through the city, categorized differently as migrants, immigrants, “ex-pats,” and artists, intersect and overlap.   George Bajalia is an anthropologist (Ph.D., Columbia University), Assistant Professor at Wesleyan University, and theatre director based between Morocco and New York. He is the co-founder of the annual Youmein Creative Media Festival in Tangier, Morocco and the Northwestern University in Qatar Creative Media Festival. His work has been supported by the CAORC-Mellon Mediterranean Research Fellowship, the American Institute of Maghrib Studies Long-Term Fellowship, and the Fulbright Foundation, and he is a Fellow of the Tangier- American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies. Aida Alami is a Moroccan freelance journalist who's frequently on the road, reporting from North Africa, France, the Caribbean, and more recently, Senegal. She regularly contributes to the New York Times, and her work has also been published by the New York Review of Books, The Financial Times, and Foreign Policy. She earned her bachelor's degree in media studies at Hunter College and her master's degree in journalism at Columbia University. She mainly covers migration, human rights, religion, politics and racism. These days, Aida spends a lot of time in France, where she is directing a documentary feature on antiracism activists and police violence. This episode was recorded on July 28th, 2021 at the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM).    Posted by Hayet Lansari, Librarian, Outreach Coordinator, Content Curator (CEMA).

In this discussion at Youmein 2021: Roots and Traces, anthropologist George Bajalia and journalist Aida Alami explore the roots and traces of contemporary cultural life in Tangier, especially as they relate to northern Morocco's border regions. From questions of diversity and difference to the roots of present debates around representation, responsibility, and justice, Youmein 2021: Roots and Traces was an open-ended artistic inquiry into how the structures of our past have shaped our current moment. The traces of this past appear in unexpected places, both institutionally and in the social milieu from which we develop artistic reflections. Uncomfortable inequities and realities sit adjacent to the rise of powerful populist and progressive movements worldwide. Since Youmein began in 2014, xenophobia, isolationism, and neo-imperialism have grown simultaneously with new forms of solidarities and ways of being in-common. How will these movements leave their traces in our shifting social orders, and how will they transform, sediment, and root themselves differently? So far, each edition of the Youmein Festival has taken on themes speaking to Tangier as a space of both border and bridge: al-barzakh, crisis, imitation, limit(s), and desire. This year, those themes became the fertile ground on which we will reconvene and dig deep into what has come before and make choices about where we want to go next. After a year of isolated reflections, and alongside the Bicentennial of the Tangier-American Legation, Youmein invited the artists, speakers, and the public to critically reflect on the view from Tangier, and the cultures, peoples, and conditions which compose it. As a part of the 2021 Youmein Festival, Alami and Bajalia reflected on Tangier and its myths, past and present, and alternative cultural histories and present realities in this corner of the Strait of Gibraltar. From Maalem Abdellah Gourd and the renovation of his home in Tangier medina to the role of the Tangier American Legation Museum in the city, they share thoughts how different flows of people through the city, categorized differently as migrants, immigrants, "ex-pats," and artists, intersect and overlap. George Bajalia is an anthropologist (Ph.D., Columbia University), Assistant Professor at Wesleyan University, and theatre director based between Morocco and New York. He is the co-founder of the annual Youmein Creative Media Festival in Tangier, Morocco and the Northwestern University in Qatar Creative Media Festival. His work has been supported by the CAORC-Mellon Mediterranean Research Fellowship, the American Institute of Maghrib Studies Long-Term Fellowship, and the Fulbright Foundation, and he is a Fellow of the Tangier- American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies. Aida Alami is a Moroccan freelance journalist who's frequently on the road, reporting from North Africa, France, the Caribbean, and more recently, Senegal. She regularly contributes to the New York Times, and her work has also been published by the New York Review of Books, The Financial Times, and Foreign Policy. She earned her bachelor's degree in media studies at Hunter College and her master's degree in journalism at Columbia University. She mainly covers migration, human rights, religion, politics and racism. These days, Aida spends a lot of time in France, where she is directing a documentary feature on antiracism activists and police violence.

Episode 130: Writing on Kingdom Walls: Practices, Narratives and Visual Politics of Graffiti and Street Art in Jordan and Morocco Soufiane's focus is a comparative study on cultural practices and narratives related to art production and its entanglement with resistance and visual politics in North Africa and the Middle East. By working on Morocco and Jordan, he mainly focus on wall-writings, street art, and graffiti in order to understand what wall expressions do, the extent to which they have a particularly political place in society, and how they relate to socio-political transformations. Soufiane Chinig is a first-year PhD student of anthropology in the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies at Freie Universität Berlin. His research in anthropology is on writing and painting on walls in Morocco and Jordan. He also holds an MA in Sociology and Anthropology from Hassan II University in Mohammedia, and a BA in Sociology from Mohammed V University. Alongside his academic work, he is also active in promoting Moroccan cultural heritage and evaluating urban policies in that country. This episode was recorded on July 31st 2021, at the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM).    Posted by Hayet Lansari, Librarian, Outreach Coordinator, Content Curator (CEMA).

Episode 128: Protecting Morocco´s Rarest Forests The high mountains of Talassemtane National Park protect some of the rarest trees and animals in Morocco and North Africa. Forest fires can have negative as well as positive effects on conserving these unique ecosystems. Research ranging from satellite images to tree-ring analysis is being applied to help forest managers protect the forest and adapt to changing climate. Dr. Peter Fulé is a professor in the School of Forestry at Northern Arizona University. His research is at the intersection of forests, wildfire, climate and people around the world. Peter works with students and colleagues using multiple research techniques including tree rings to assess tree growth and forest fires over many centuries. Using models of forest growth and climate, they test forest restoration treatments and simulate changes into the future. He has taught and done research on five continents. Currently he is a visiting Fulbright Scholar in Tétouan, Morocco, working with Abdelmalek Essaâdi, University and Talassemtane National Park. This episode was recorded on June 12th, 2021 at the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM).  Posted by: Hayet Lansari, Librarian, Outreach Coordinator, Content Curator (CEMA).

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 importants à  mettre en exergue.  Ils traduisent  les rapports des individus à la société et au politique.  Seule une recherche socio-anthropologique centrée sur  l’écoute attentive de la personne, pouvait nous permettre de prendre distance avec les certitudes, les jugements moraux et les étiquetages rapides sur la façon de se comporter  vis-à-vis de la pandémie (« inconscience », « indiscipline », etc.).  La rigueur scientifique  est déployée à partir d’une enquête qualitative plus soucieuse de la qualité des mots que de la représentativité. Elle permet de relever les profondes secousses relationnelles occasionnées durant la pandémie, les inégales valeurs de vie face au confinement identifié à une « prison »,  une gestion sécuritaire, administrée et patriarcale de la pandémie. Mohamed Mebtoul est en retraite. Il  a été professeur de sociologie à l’Université d’Oran 2, directeur de l’Unité de Recherche en Sciences Sociales et Santé, fondateur de l’anthropologie de la santé en Algérie en 1991 et co-fondateur du GRAS (groupe de recherché en anthropologie de la santé).  Ses  recherches socio-anthropologiques ont porté sur les questions sociosanitaires centrées sur les logiques sociales déployées par les malades chroniques, les familles, les professionnels de santé et les pouvoirs publics. Sa trajectoire  scientifique sur le “sens du mal” a été remobilisée  pour décrypter les pratiques de la population vis-à-vis de la crise sociosanitaire D’autres travaux ont concerné la sexualité des jeunes, la santé dite “reproductive” des femmes, les tensions autour de l’alimentation de l’enfant, sous le prisme des rapports sociaux de sexe.  Ces recherches micro-sociologiques lui ont permis de questionner la notion de citoyenneté en Algérie, dans une perspective anthropologique,  montrant son absence dans la société algérienne et surtout les raisons de  sa non-constitution. Ce qui l’a conduit à  appréhender le “Hirak” algérien du 22 février 2019,  en investissant l’espace public pour tenter de comprendre de l’intérieur les objectifs, les logiques d’action et les interactions des manifestants. Sa trajectoire  scientifique sur le “sens du mal” a été remobilisée  pour décrypter les pratiques de la population vis-à-vis de la pandémie Covid-19. Ce dernier travail a été réalisé avec la participation de  l’Association Santé Sidi El Houari et L’Observatoire Régional de la Santé d’Oran Cet épisode s'inscrit dans le cadre  du cycle des conférences “Santé et humanités au Maghreb” de l'American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS), organisé par le Centre d'Études Maghrébines en Algérie (CEMA) et le Centre d'Études Maghrébines à Tunis (CEMAT) en étroite collaboration avec Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM). Ce podcast a été enregistré via Zoom le 10 décembre 2020 entre Oran et Tunis. Dr. Robert P. Parks,  Directeur du CEMA, a  modéré le débat. Nous remercions Dr. Jonathan Glasser, anthropologue culturel au College of William & Mary, pour son istikhbar in sika à l'alto pour l'introduction et la conclusion de ce podcast. Réalisation et montage: Hayet Lansari, Bibliothécaire / Chargée de la diffusion des activités scientifiques (CEMA).

Episode 109: Bread and Circuits: Illness, Food, and the Course of Empire in 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 imperial metropole, that is, turned into toxic debris in the colony. In this podcast, Dr. Brock Cutler takes a look at how this story about poisoned bread can expose the filaments that tied together an imperial space in the western Mediterranean, along the way illuminating the role bread played in performances of modern imperialism. Dr. Brock Cutler is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Radford University. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters dealing with ecology and history in North Africa. His forthcoming book, "Crisis Ecologies: Imperialism, Death, and Debris in Algeria," centered around a massive ecological disaster in which 800,000 Algerians died between 1865 and 1872, explores how the new eco-social dynamics in the late nineteenth century cleaved societies from environments and people from society, creating the new insides and outsides of modernity and imperialism. This episode is part of “Health and Humanities in the Maghrib” a lecture series by the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS), organized by the Centre d'Études Maghrébines à Tunis (CEMAT) and the Centre d'Études Maghrébines en Algérie (CEMA), in close collaboration with the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM). It was recorded on the 15th of October 2020 between Oran, Radford (VA), St. Petersburg (FL) and Tunis. Dr. Adam Guerin, Associate Professor in the Department of History at Eckerd College, moderated the lecture and debate. To see related slides visit our web site www.themaghribpodcast.com We thank Dr. Jonathan Glasser, Cultural Anthropologist at the College of William & Mary for his istikhbar in sika on viola for the introduction and conclusion of this podcast.   Realization and editing:  Hayet Lansari, Librarian, Outreach Coordinator, Content Curator (CEMA).

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’Habitation in Marseille, ATBAT sought to expand its practice beyond France by establishing ATBAT-Afrique, before embarking upon future plans for ATBAT-Orient and ATBAT-Amérique, to be installed in Beirut and New York, respectively. This initial work abroad would therefore serve as both a critical test and potential catalyst for the young multinational, multidisciplinary firm. It would demonstrate the ability (or lack thereof) of European-trained architects to respond to contexts defined by radically new cultures, climates, and clients than they had previously addressed or even considered, and would articulate their idea of ‘habitat’ – a comprehensive framework for universal building – in visual form. This podcast addresses methodological approaches and challenges in researching ATBAT’s theoretical and concrete developments of habitat in Morocco before tracing the afterlives of these projects in adjacent Algeria, far-flung Cambodia, and ultimately returning to the Parisian suburbs at the end of the decade. Johanna Sluiter is writing a dissertation on the Atelier des Bâtisseurs and the development of habitat in post-war architecture. She is currently an associate researcher at the École Normale Supérieure d’Architecture Belleville in Paris and a Chester Dale Fellow at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. TALIM Director John Davison moderated the discussion for this podcast, which was recorded on 21 February 2020, at the Tangier American Legation and Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM), in Tangier, Morocco. Posted by Hayet Lansari, Librarian, Outreach Coordinator, Content Curator (CEMA).

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 Tennessee State University, the book places Sijilmasa in the context of Moroccan and Islamic history, revealing the 1,000-year history of the caravan center as a focus of trans-Saharan trade and focal point of dynastic change. The podcast covers a wide variety of topics associated with Sijilmasa: its origins in the second century A.H. and the establishment of the Midrarid dynasty and their Sufri religious background, the significance of the surrounding irrigated oasis landscape of the Tafilalt, the unprotected nature of the site of Sijilmasa today, and the threats to it posed by the growth of the adjacent modern town of Rissani. The relations Sijilmasa long held with ancient Ghana and successor states south of the Sahara were rooted in the element of trade for which Sijilmasa was known far and wide from its earliest days, namely gold. Gold, African gold, was Sijilmasa’s fame, and the city and its caravans and commercial reach were the result of its long-held monopoly on the trans-Saharan gold trade. Prof. Miller received his Ph.D. in cultural geography from the University of Texas at Austin and taught in the Department of History and Geography at Clemson University for 28 years. Upon retiring from Clemson, he became the Executive Director of the Moroccan-American Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange (MACECE – Fulbright Morocco) in 2009 and retired from that position in 2018. He was President of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies from  2007 to 2010 and  has been Vice President since 2018. He serves on the boards of the Tangier American Legation and Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM) and CorpsAfrica. Prof. Miller is the author of a number of works, including Imlil: A Modern Moroccan Geography (Westview, 1984) and A Question of Place (Wiley, 1989 - co-authored with Paul Ward). TALIM Director John Davison moderated the discussion for this podcast, which was recorded on 30 September 2019, at TALIM, in Tangier, Morocco.  Posted by Hayet Lansari, Librarian, Outreach Coordinator, Content Curator (CEMA).

Episode 76: Land, Labor, and 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 their ancestral land with economic pressures to migrate. In this context, David explores how the privatization of collective land in the Gharb could stimulate new labor possibilities, livelihood shifts, and youth aspirations. In 2015, the Government of Morocco and the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a U.S. aid agency, signed the Morocco Land and Employability Compact. This Compact includes a project to title 51,000 hectares of collective land in the Gharb region, thereby turning it into private property. The project’s discourse emphasizes that integrating land into market systems leads to greater productivity, enhanced access to credit, and increased land values, all of which benefit rural populations. However, government reports largely fail to account for how agrarian transformations resulting from privatization have differentiated impacts on different rural population groups, particularly young people. The Gharb plain, which is located along the north-western Atlantic coast, has long been one of the most agriculturally productive regions of Morocco. Since the 1970s, demographic growth, land fragmentation, and the rise of foreign investment in agro-business have all contributed to shifts in rural livelihoods and income-generating activities. Many households no longer rely solely on agriculture as their primary source of income. As a result, young people living in collective land in the Gharb are pursuing diverse livelihood strategies, even as their future aspirations diverge significantly from those of previous generations. This episode was recorded on August 23rd 2019, at the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM).  Posted by Hayet Lansari, Librarian, Outreach Coordinator, Content Curator (CEMA).

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 holds an AM (masters) in NELC from Harvard and a BA from the University of Virginia. This episode was recorded on July 25th 2019, at the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM). Posted by Hayet Lansari, Librarian, Outreach Coordinator, Content Curator (CEMA).

This episode was recorded on August 23rd 2019, at the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies. In this podcast, we welcome David Balgley, Masters candidate in Arab Studies at Georgetown University, discussing his research project entitled: Land, Labor, and Youth Aspirations in the Gharb, Morocco. In this podcast episode, David 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 their ancestral land with economic pressures to migrate. In this context, David explores how the privatization of collective land in the Gharb could stimulate new labor possibilities, livelihood shifts, and youth aspirations. Further reading Akesbi, Najib. 2012. “A new strategy for agriculture in Morocco: The Green Morocco Plan”. New Medit 11 (2): 12-23. Balgley, David. 2019. “Assembling Land Access and Legibility.” In The Politics of Land, edited by Tim Bartley (117-142). Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited. Bidwell, R. 1973. Morocco Under Colonial Rule: French Administration of Tribal Areas 1912-1956. London: Frank Cass and Co. Bossenbroek, Lisa, Jan D. van der Ploeg, and Margreet Zwarteveen. 2015. “Broken dreams? Youth experiences of agrarian change in Morocco’s Saiss region”. Cah Agric 24(6): 342-348 Bouzidi, Zhour, Nicolas Faysse, Marcel Kuper, and Jean-Paul Billaud. 2015. “Les Projets Des Jeunes Ruraux : Des Stratégies Diversifiées Pour Accéder Au Foncier et Obtenir l’appui de l’État.” Alternatives Rurales, Hors Série Jeunes Ruraux: 13–24. Faysse, Nicolas, Zhour Bouzidi, Zakaria Zadiri, Elhassane Abdellaoui, and Zoubir Chattou. 2015. “Les Jeunes Ruraux Aujourd’hui.” Alternatives Rurales, Hors Série Jeunes Ruraux: 4–12. Giuliani, Alessandra, Sebastian Mengel, Courtney Paisley, Nicole Perkins, Ingrid Flink, Oliver Oliveros, and Mariana Wongtschowski. 2017. “Realities, Perceptions, Challenges and Aspirations of Rural Youth in Dryland Agriculture in the Midelt Province, Morocco”. Sustainability 9: 871-894. Ghanem, Hafez. 2016. “Targeting Excluded Groups: Youth, Smallholder Farmers, and Women”. In The Arab Spring Five Years Later: Toward Greater Inclusiveness (107-135). Washington: Brookings Institution Press. Mahdi, M. 2014. “The Future of Land Tenure in Morocco: A Land Grabbing Case.” New Medit 13 (4): 2-10. Petit, Olivier, Marcel Kuper, and Fatah Ameur. 2018. “From worker to peasant and then to entrepreneur? Land reform and agrarian change in the Saiss (Morocco)”. World Development 105: 119-131. Swearingen, Will D. 1987. Moroccan Mirages: Agrarian Dreams and Deceptions, 1912-1986. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

This episode was recorded on July 25th 2019, at the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies. In this podcast, we welcome Ari Schriber, PhD Candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, discussing his research project entitled: Moroccan Shari’a In The Age Of Colonialism Ari Schriber is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC) at Harvard University. He 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 holds an AM (masters) in NELC from Harvard and a BA from the University of Virginia. Further Reading (in English):  Leon Buskens, “Islamic Commentaries and French Codes: The Confrontation and Accommodation of Two Forms of Textualization of Family Law in Morocco” in The Politics of ethnographic writing” ed. Henk Driessen, 65-100 (1993).  Dale Eickelman, Knowledge and power in Morocco: the education of a twentieth-century notable (1985).  Jessica Marglin, Across legal lines: Jews and Muslims in modern Morocco (2016).  Wael B. Hallaq, “Can the Shari’a Be Restored?,” in Islamic Law and the Challenges of Modernity, ed.s Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and Barbara Freyer Stowasser (2004).  Katherine Hoffman, “Berber Law by French Means: Customary Courts in the Moroccan Hinterlands, 1930-1956” in Comparative Studies in Society and History 52.4, 851-880 (2010).  Geoffrey Porter, At the Pillar’s Base: Islam, Morocco, and Education in the Qarawiyin Mosque, 1912-2000, PhD dissertation (2002).  David Powers, Law, Society, and Culture in the Maghrib, 1300-1500 (2002).  Etty Terem, Old Texts, New Practices: Islamic reform in modern Morocco (2014).  Jonathan Wyrtzen, Making Morocco: colonial intervention and the politics of identity (2015).

This episode was recorded on March 8th, 2019, at the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies. In this podcast, Carole Blankenship, Soprano, and Irene Herrmann on the piano, performed a lecture as well as a musical performance entitled; Paul Bowles: A Musical Portrait.

Episode 58: Moroccan and Ottoman Contributions to 18th c. Diplomatic Developments   Throughout the eighteenth century, the Ottoman and Russian Empires were at war. However, a decisive victory by the Russian Empire helped them assert their influence over both Crimea and the Mediterranean. The Ottomans, wanting to counteract this assumption of power fought to prevent Russian ships from entering through the Straits of Gibraltar, seeking assistance from the Moroccan king Sidi Muhammed Ben Abdallah. In this episode, Peter Kitlas, Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, discusses the vibrant developments in diplomatic activity between Morocco and the Ottoman Empire throughout the eighteenth century. The increased exchange of diplomats between these two non-European powers demonstrates how Morocco and the Ottoman Empire responded to changes in international relations during this time period while still maintaining a particular diplomatic ethos. Focusing on some entertaining anecdotes about diplomats and their adventures, Peter takes us through the travelogues (riḥla and sefaretname) of several Moroccan and Ottoman diplomats to demonstrate how they navigated the changing field of international relations. Here, Peter highlights that diplomatic history should deal just as much with developments in bureaucracy and statecraft as it does with its foundational standards and practices governed by a particular diplomatic mentality. Focusing on both actions and the governing influences behind those actions will help bring Morocco and the Ottoman Empire into broader conversations about diplomacy during this time period and might even help to uncover outlying developments in the European theater that have not fit into the particular ethos of a state-craft focused, bureaucratic teleology. Peter Kitlas is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University  He is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer from Morocco and holds an M.A. from the University of Michigan. He research in Morocco, Turkey, Gibraltar, and Dubrovnik has been funded by the Social Science Research Council and the Department of Education through the Fulbright-Hays Commission. This Podcast was recorded on 10 January at the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM), in Tangier, Morocco. TALIM Resident Director John Davison moderated the discussion. Posted by Hayet Lansari, Librarian, Outreach Coordinator, Content Curator (CEMA).

Episode 48: La résiliance architecturale en Mauritanie Dans cet épisode, Dr. Franklin Graham, professeur de géographie à l'University of South Florida, présente une communication sur la résilience architecturale en Mauritanie. Traditionnellement le peuple sédentarisé en Mauritanie construisait leurs édifices et murs à base de pierres et d`argile. Le mot « toqleedi » en Arabe et en Hassaniyya, explique cette maçonnerie traditionnelle. Typiquement, les pierres sont d’origine sédimentaire et elles proviennent d'anciennes couches océaniques. Le grès, facile de retirer est mélangé à l’argile locale; la majorité des bâtiments ont été construits de cette façon. Des anciens quartiers d’Atâr, Ouâdâne, Chinguetti, Tidjikja, Er-Rachid, Ksar el-Barka et Oualata en sont des modèles. Dans les sites spécifiques, comme à Terjitt, Aoujeft, Tichitt et Néma, la schiste et l’argile sont utilisés par le peuple de « Trab el Hajra » pour bien profiter de leurs ressources locales. Pour charpenter les toits, ils utilisaient les plantes cultivées dans les jardins ou les plantes sauvages trouvées près de leurs habitations. Le bois de palmier, du dattier, « en nakhîl » en Arabe, trouvé dans les palmeraies, généralement fut utilisé à supporter les toits. Les arbres d’acacia, « talha et tamât », et le bois de dattier sauvage « teïchott » en Hassaniyya, étaient ramassés et utilisés pour renforcer les seuils et pour fabriquer les portes et les fenêtres. Typiquement les personnes s'adaptaient à l’environnement pour construire leurs maisons, magasins, greniers et mosquées. Les traditions peuvent évoluer dans le temps. Effectivement la maçonnerie mauritanienne témoigne d’un changement dynamique et profond. Mais le changement n’est ni facile ni uniforme à comprendre. Pour des raisons diverses des villes et villages toqleedi sont en train de vivre une renaissance, ils sont tombés dans l'oubli. Les circonstances environnementales, économiques et sociales influencent cette complexité. Ci-dessous se trouve le bilan des entretiens et observations enregistrées dans les onze villes et villages dans l’intérieur de la Mauritanie durant l’été 2017. Quarante-trois maçons ont été interviewés à Ouâdâne, Chinguetti, Aoujeft, Tidjikja, Er-Rachid, Tichitt et Oualata. L’enquête a démontré que le type de maçonnerie concernant les quartiers d’Ouâdâne, Chinguetti, Atâr, Tidjikja, Tichitt, Oualata, Néma et Ksar el Barka a été abandonné avant la période coloniale. Le site de Terjitt est le plus petit et dispose d'un ancien quartier, et le reste est habité et sillonné par une ancienne ville qui s’appelle en Hassaniyya et en Arabe « El Qadeema ». Ci-dessous, les résultats de la recherche sont expliqués pour chaque site, un sommaire est consacré aux régions de l’Adrâr, du Tagant et de l’Hodh ech-Chargui, et en conclusion pour la Mauritanie. Des propositions pour une recherche éventuelle sont proposées dans la conclusion. La conférence de Dr. Franklin Graham a eu lieu le 26 juin 2018 au Tangier American Legation Institute of Moroccan Studies (TALIM),à Tanger, Maroc. Pour consulter les diaporamas et la bibliographie, visitez notre site web: www.themaghribpodcast.com Posté par Hayet Lansari, Bibliothécaire / Chargée de la diffusion des activités scientifiques (CEMA).

This episode was recorded on April 12, 2018 at the Tangier American Institut of Moroccan Studies, as part of TALIM’s annual April Seminar on the theme “Documenting the Cultural Heritage of Northern Morocco”, which is organized in partnership with the Office Chérifien des Phosphates. In this podcast, we welcome Sharon C. Smith​, AKDC Program Head, presents a lecture entitled "Documenting the Built Environment: Why and How?"

This episode was recorded on April 12, 2018 at the Tangier American Institut of Moroccan Studies, as part of TALIM’s annual April Seminar on the theme “Documenting the Cultural Heritage of Northern Morocco”, which is organized in partnership with the Office Chérifien des Phosphates. In this podcast, we welcome Dr. Michael A. Toler​, Archnet Content Manager, Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT, presenting a lecture entitled "The Documentation of Cultural Heritage a Society in Transition". Thank you for listening to Maghrib in Past & Present Podcasts. Other episodes are available on our website, www.themaghribpodcast.com, as well as on iTunes and PodBean.

This series was recorded on April 12, 2018 at the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies, as part of TALIM’s annual April Seminar, organized annually in partnership with the Office Chérifien des Phosphates. This year’s seminar program was organized in collaboration with the Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT (AKDC@MIT). In the first podcast, we welcome Dr. Mhammad Benaboud, Vice President of the Tetouan Asmir and the General Secretary of the Tetouan Asmir Club of Friends of UNESCO, presenting a lecture entitled "Documenting the Cultural Heritage of the North Moroccan Medinas : the Case of the Medina of Tetouan". In the second podcast, we welcome researcher and doctoral candidat Jordi Mas Garriga from the University Rovira i Virgili, presenting a lecture entitled "Towards valuing Tangier's Alawite heritage"

This series was recorded on April 12, 2018 at the Tangier American Institut of Moroccan Studies, as part of TALIM's annual April Seminar on the theme "Documenting the Cultural Heritage of Northern Morocco", which is organized in partnership with the Office Chérifien des Phosphates. In the first podcast, we welcome Dr. Mhammad Benaboud, Vice President of the Tetouan Asmir and the General Secretary of the Tetouan Asmir Club of Friends of UNESCO, presenting a lecture entitled "Documenting the Cultural Heritage of the North Moroccan Medinas : the Case of the Medina of Tetouan". In the second podcast, we welcome researcher and doctoral candidat Jordi Mas Garriga from the University Rovira i Virgili, presenting a lecture entitled "Towards valuing Tangier's Alawite heritage"

 Episode 42: Colonial Andalus    In this episode, Dr. Eric Calderwood, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the Department of Comparative and World Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign speaks about his recent book, Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Morocco (Harvard University Press, 2018). Dr. Calderwood offers an overview of his book, and reflects on how the time he has spent in Morocco (especially Tetouan) has shaped his research topic and his understanding of Moroccan history and literature. Grounded in nearly a decade of research in Spain and North Africa, Colonial al-Andalus explores the culture, politics, and legacies of Spanish colonialism in Morocco (1859-1956). It traces the genealogy of a widespread idea about Morocco: namely, the idea that modern Moroccan culture descends directly from al-Andalus. This idea is pervasive in contemporary Moroccan historiography, literature, and political discourse. Colonial al-Andalus argues that Morocco's Andalusi identity is not a medieval legacy, but is, instead, a modern invention that emerged from the colonial encounter between Spain and Morocco in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In pursuit of this argument, the book examines a diverse array of Arabic, Spanish, French, and Catalan sources, including literature, historiography, journalism, political speeches, tourist brochures, and visual culture. Dr. Eric Calderwood is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he also holds faculty appointments in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, the Program in Medieval Studies, the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, and the Program in Jewish Culture and Society. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2011. His research explores modern Mediterranean culture, with a particular emphasis on Spanish and North African literature and film. In addition to his recent book on Morocco, he has published articles in such journals as PMLA, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, The Journal of North African Studies, and International Journal of Middle East Studies. He has also contributed essays and commentary to such venues as NPR, the BBC, Foreign Policy, and The American Scholar. This podcast was recorded at the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM), on 11 May 2018. To see related slides, visit our website: www.themaghribpodcast.com

Episode 28: Sub-Saharan Migrant Networks in Tangier In this episode, Fulbright scholar Sam Metz (University of California Berkeley), speaks with John Davison, Director of the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM) to share some of the findings of his current research, "Spreading Awareness or Stealing Stories? How sub-Saharan Migrant Networks in Tangier Perceive and Act Toward Outsiders." Having spent the final months of his fellowship in the peripheral Tangier neighborhood of Masnana, living with migrant communities, Sam offers unique insights into this timely and important theme.  Sam Metz is a reporter currently based in California who spent a year and a half in Morocco as a Fulbright Scholar, researching sub-Saharan migrant communities living on the outskirts of Tangier. He has reported freelance for outlets like Jadaliyya, Quartz, and VICE News, and worked as a consultant for International Organization for Migration, the UN's migration agency. This Podcast was recorded at the Tangier American Legation for Moroccan Studies on the 15th of December 2017.

Cet épisode a été enregistré le 23 Février 2018, au TALIM, le Tangier American Legation Institut for Moroccan Studies, et présenté dans le cadre du colloque International organisé par l’association Al Boughaz de Tanger, intitulé “Le nouveau visage de Tanger.. lutte contre l’amnésie”. Sur cet épisode, vous écoutez l’intervention de Mr. Salaheddine Mezouar, l’ex ministre Des Affaires Etrangères et de la Cooperation.