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Irving's Dialogism in the Alhambra
Cross-culture and/or multiculturalism have become catchwords and phrases in certain studies within academia, but they have mostly become battle grounds for contestation and convergence with contestation of identity, cultural authenticity and/or supremacy and hegemony. Yet, over and above all these skirmishes, convergence tends to win the day as it struggles for a cosmopolitan culture and polity, albeit very difficult to achieve. The present work follows the same line of thought by trying to bring a new perspective into what it calls cultural dialogism inherent in the corpus of texts borrowed from The Alhambra by W. Irving. The texts selected display a dual characteristic: the first is addres...
English Language Teaching in Moroccan Higher Education
This book explores the global spread of English and its ramifications for the status of English in Morocco. It sheds light on motivational issues in English language teaching and learning in Moroccan higher education and examines various teaching practices in terms of: teaching effectiveness, assessment and evaluation, written feedback, English-Arabic translation, and undergraduate supervision. In addition to identifying critical issues in the discipline of English studies and the main challenges facing English departments from historical, institutional, and pedagogical perspectives, it suggests strategies for addressing and overcoming them.
Irving’s Dialogism in the Alhambra
Cross-culture and/or multiculturalism have become catchwords and phrases in certain studies within academia, but they have mostly become battle grounds for contestation and convergence with contestation of identity, cultural authenticity and/or supremacy and hegemony. Yet, over and above all these skirmishes, convergence tends to win the day as it struggles for a cosmopolitan culture and polity, albeit very difficult to achieve. The present work follows the same line of thought by trying to bring a new perspective into what it calls cultural dialogism inherent in the corpus of texts borrowed from The Alhambra by W. Irving. The texts selected display a dual characteristic: the first is addres...
The Sultan's Communists
The Sultan's Communists uncovers the history of Jewish radical involvement in Morocco's national liberation project and examines how Moroccan Jews envisioned themselves participating as citizens in a newly-independent Morocco. Closely following the lives of five prominent Moroccan Jewish Communists (Léon René Sultan, Edmond Amran El Maleh, Abraham Serfaty, Simon Lévy, and Sion Assidon), Alma Rachel Heckman describes how Moroccan Communist Jews fit within the story of mass Jewish exodus from Morocco in the 1950s and '60s, and how they survived oppressive post-independence authoritarian rule under the Moroccan monarchy to ultimately become heroic emblems of state-sponsored Muslim-Jewish tol...
Jewish–Muslim Interactions
By exploring dynamic Jewish-Muslim interactions across North Africa and France through performance culture in the 20th and 21st centuries, we offer an alternative chronology and lens to a growing trend in media and scholarship that views these interactions primarily through conflict. Our volume interrogates interaction that crosses the genres of theatre, music, film, art, and stand-up, emphasising creative influence and artistic cooperation between performers from the Maghrib, with a focus on Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, and diaspora communities, notably in France. The plays, songs, films, images, and comedy sketches that we analyse are multilingual, mixing not only with the former colonial la...
The Arab-African and Islamic Worlds
These 17 papers offer an overview of Arab-Islamic North Africa. The authors are scholars representing a wide range of nationalities, specializations, methodologies, and points of view. They discuss the role of women in Islam, the Berber question, Islamic reassertion, U.S. foreign policy, the transnational Maghrebi migrant in Europe, film, language, music, and literature. Emphasis is placed on the diversity of Islamic culture. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Everyday Life in Global Morocco
Following the story of one middle class family as they work, eat, love, and grow, Everyday Life in Global Morocco provides a moving and engaging exploration of how world issues impact lives. Rachel Newcomb shows how larger issues like gentrification, changing diets, and nontraditional approaches to marriage and fertility are changing what the everyday looks and feels like in Morocco. Newcomb's close engagement with the Benjelloun family presents a broad range of responses to the multifaceted effects of globalization. The lived experience of the modern family is placed in contrast with the traditional expectation of how this family should operate. This juxtaposition encourages new ways of thinking about how modern the notion of globalization really is.
Regimenting Americanism: - A Short Cut into a Dialogical Globe
At a time filled with tensions, heated disputes and bloody wars, nations of the 21st century have become preoccupied with empowering their military foundations and seeking new alliances which would guarantee their triumph in case a third world war is to take place. In the middle of these tensions and war mongering attempts, the United States of America, as usual, has to remind the world of its role as “the super power”, and re-instigate the world’s anxiety by its usual interceding in the international laws or by its military interventions in many places like Iraq, Afghanistan or even the Middle East region under the purported noble mission of securing the whole world against terrorists...
Intercultural Geopoetics in Kenneth White's Open World
This work introduces Kenneth White’s geopoetics as a radical, postmodern interdisciplinary and intercultural project that reclaims the return to communication with the earth, nature, wo-man, and the self as part of a cosmic unity approach. It traces geopoetics’ beginnings, key concepts, territories and trajectories, aims, and perspectives. Geopoetics is shown here to be a cosmopolitan project for a more open and harmonious world, which buries narrow-mindedness and offers new horizons.
