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Grounded Identities
Grounded Identities: Territory and Belonging in the Medieval and Early Modern Middle East and Mediterranean is a collection of essays on attachment to specific lands including Kurdistan, Andalusia and the Maghrib, and geographical Syria in the pre-modern Islamicate world. Together these essays put a premium on the affective and cultural dimensions of such attachments, fluctuations in the meaning and significance of lands in the face of historical transformations and, at the same time, the real and persistent qualities of lands and human attachments to them over long periods of time. These essays demonstrate that grounded identities are persistent and never static. Contributors are: Zayde Antrim, Alexander Elinson, Mary Hoyt Halavais, Boris James, Steve Tamari.
Marrakech Noir
This unique anthology of crime fiction features 15 original stories of “scandals, smugglers, and other sordid tales” by award-winning Moroccan authors (CrimeReads). At first glance, Marrakech may seem like an odd setting for noir fiction. Contemporary Moroccans call it The Joyful City—a place where locals are happy to joke about gossip and quick to forget stories of crime. But in Marrakech Noir, some of Morocco’s finest authors address old wrong that have been kept hidden behind the city’s ancient gates, and spin contemporary tales of poverty, grift, and violence in this global tourist destination. Marrakech Noir features brand-new stories by Fouad Laroui, Allal Bourqia, Abdelkader Benali, Mohamed Zouhair, Mohamed Achaari, Hanane Derkaoui, Fatiha Morchid, Mahi Binebine, Mohamed Nedali, Halima Zine El Abidine, My Seddik Rabbaj, Yassin Adnan, Karima Nadir, Taha Adnan, and Lahcen Bakour.
Hot Maroc
With an infectious blend of humor, satire, and biting social commentary, Yassin Adnan gives readers a portrait of contemporary Morocco—and the city of Marrakech—told through the eyes of the hapless Rahhal Laâouina, a.k.a. the Squirrel. Painfully shy, not that bright, and not all that popular, Rahhal somehow imagines himself a hero. With a useless degree in ancient Arabic poetry, he finds his calling in the online world, where he discovers email, YouTube, Facebook, and the news site Hot Maroc. Enamored of the internet and the thrill of anonymity it allows, Rahhal opens the Atlas Cubs Cyber Café, where patrons mingle virtually with politicians, journalists, hackers, and trolls. However, ...
Marraquexe noir
Marraquexe noir faz parte da premiada série de antologia noir da Akashic Books. O Norte da África finalmente entra para a coleção com um volume de histórias sombrias e enraizadas em solo marroquino, aproximando os leitores da realidade linguística, cultural, religiosa e étnica de Marraquexe, seja ela árabe, amazigue, africana ou muçulmana. Da introdução de Yassin Adnan: "Aqui é a capital do turismo, a cidade da alegria e da tristeza, a cidade da vida simples, a cidade ligada às capitais internacionais através de voos diários, a cidade da nova comunidade europeia, um balneário de inverno para aposentados franceses e um refúgio para imigrantes da África subsaariana. Marraquexe também é conhecida por seu turismo sexual e uma nova geração de crimes. Todos esses aspectos da cidade se refletem nessas histórias, por mais sórdidas que sejam. Os autores não escreveram apenas histórias, eles tentaram escrever Marraquexe também. Juntas, suas histórias apresentam um retrato abrangente da cidade, sua tristeza, violência, tensão e escuridão, sem negligenciar seu espírito alegre."
Un si long voyage
Après les Amériques et leurs Afrodescendants, Michel se rend en Afrique où il découvre l'incroyable richesse culturelle des pays qu'il traverse (Maroc, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Bénin, Nigéria, Cameroun, RD Congo, Rwanda, Tanzanie, Éthiopie). Il comprend alors que le mal-être des Afrodescendants d'Amérique ne pourra trouver remède qu'en découvrant et aimant leurs racines, seule condition pour s'aimer soi-même, aimer les autres et respecter les différentes civilisations. Bien plus qu'une aventure, le périple de Michel aura été pour lui une thérapie en même temps qu'une précieuse leçon de vie qui lui aura enseigné que le sens de soi et une adaptation réussie aux défis de l'existence exigent de se réconcilier pleinement avec son identité et son appartenance à une histoire. Seule la découverte de nos racines nous permet de déployer nos ailes loin vers l'horizon, de contempler l'immensité des possibilités qui s'offrent à nous, et de remplir de nouveaux rêves notre coeur avide, cet éternel insatisfait.
The Oxford Handbook of Ritual Language
This volume brings together representative case studies and surveys that explore research into ritual language, covering theoretical and methodological approaches that reflect traditional inquiries and more recent studies. This recent literature contends that ritual language hinges on the construction of authoritative ontological models about the cosmos and its inhabitants. Ritual speech also orchestrates performances that articulate representations of collective identities, and rests on the diversity of hierarchical forms of authoritative knowledge, displayed in both oblique and direct terms. Moreover, performances, texts, and narratives associated with ritual practices are closely entwined...
Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion. Volume 2 (2011)
Over the past thirty years, religion has increasingly played a relevant role, both on a national level and in international affairs. The attempt made by politicians to reframe the policy of social cohesion in a neo-nationalist light (one land, one language, one religion = one political community), demising any kind of multiculturalism, facilitating instead a return to assimilation shaped by fear of the other (culture, religion, language, and so on), is very often associated with a restoration of the primacy of religious discourse in the public sphere. It is not just a return of religion in the public sphere, but the exploitation of religion by politics to reconstruct a social cohesion in the absence of ideological resources.
Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion
The main goal of the second issue of the Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, devoted entirely to religion and politics, is precisely to question the sense of a reconstruction of the mutual and simultaneous relations between these two spheres of social life. What does this process mean and where is it taking us?
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Structuring Conflict in the Arab World
This book examines how ruling elites manage and manipulate their political opposition in the Middle East. In contrast to discussions of government-opposition relations that focus on how rulers either punish or co-opt opponents, this book focuses on the effect of institutional rules governing the opposition. It argues rules determining who is and is not allowed to participate in the formal political arena affect not only the relationships between opponents and the state, but also between various opposition groups. This affects the dynamics of opposition during prolonged economic crises. It also shapes the informal strategies that ruling elites use toward opponents. The argument is presented using a formal model of government-opposition relations. It is demonstrated in the cases of Egypt under Presidents Nasir, Sadat and Mubarek; Jordan under King Husayn; and Morocco under King Hasan II.
