Maghrib in Past & Present | Podcasts
Maghrib in Past & Present | Podcasts is a forum in which artists, writers, and scholars from North Africa, the United States, and beyond can present their ongoing and innovative research on and in the Maghrib. The podcasts are based on lectures, live performances, book talks, and interviews across the region. Aiming to project the scientific and cultural dynamism of research in and on North Africa into the classroom, we too hope to reach a wider audience across the globe.
Episodes
Episode 236: Le patrimoine immatériel marocain dans l’écriture contemporaine de Mohamed Nedali
Dans ce podcast, Carole Edwards, professeure titulaire à Texas Tech University, démontre comment l’œuvre de Mohamed Nedali fait partie du patrimoine immatériel marocain. Sa plume participe effectivement à l’historiographie selon la structure triadique de Mic...
Episode 235: La disparition des communs en Tunisie : Un long processus de construction de la dépendance alimentaire
Ce podcast essaie de dessiner les liens structurels et de causes à effets entre les processus et dynamiques de destruction ou de désintégration des « communs » particulièrement le foncier agricole et l’eau d’irrigation et la construc...
Episode 234: Veterans, Memory and Transnational Networks of Solidarity: Connected Histories of Yugoslavia and Algeria
Centering on the exchanges between Yugoslav Partisans and Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) during and after the Algerian war of independence, the lecture explores the role of memory and war legacies in Yugoslav socialist internationalism and anti-col...
Episode 233: La question foncière au Maghreb. Un essai de rétrospective historique
Dans ce podcast, Dr Omar Bessaoud vise à initier les écouteurs aux politiques foncières mises en œuvre dans les pays du Maghreb. Il présente un essai d’histoire foncière restituant les formes de propriété durant les périodes précoloniale, coloniale et postindépendance. Au-delà des ...
Episode 232: The French Colonial Tourism Industry in Ifrane, Morocco
In this podcast, Reese Hollister discussed Morocco’s tourism industry under the French Protectorate (1912-1956) by looking at the creation of Ifrane in the Middle Atlas Mountains. Ifrane was a typical example of colonial hill station, a form of urban settlement in Europe’s colonies, high u...
Episode 231: Réflexions sur l'étude des musiques citadines maghrébines
Dans ce podcast, Jonathan Glasser souligne que l’étude des musiques citadines en Algérie est plus ancienne qu’on ne le pense généralement. Il y retrace son propre parcours intellectuel, depuis sa première étude approfondie de la musique andalouse en tant que pratique sociale jusqu’...
Episode 230: Les communs (en matière foncière) en Tunisie à l'époque moderne : à l’épreuve des normes en vigueur et des stratégies des acteurs sociaux
L’essentiel des écrits sur les questions foncières en Tunisie, mais aussi dans tout le reste du Maghreb, est le produit du savoir colonial. Ce dernier a fondé toute une manière de voir des r...
Episode 229: Concrete Futures: Cementing Colonialism in Morocco and Decolonizing Construction Technologies
During the French Protectorate (1912-1956), migration, epidemics, scarcity, and urban unrest transformed cities like Casablanca into sites of experimentation with new forms of governance. Technologies that were new to the country such as reinforc...
Épisode 228: Retour sur le mouvement des Soulaliyates : Entretien avec la sociologue Yasmine Berriane
Le mouvement des soulaliyates a émergé en 2007 dans la région du Gharb avant de se diffuser dans plusieurs autres régions du Maroc. Cette mobilisation conteste la non prise en compte des femmes comme bénéficiaires de terres collectives. Durant ce...
Episode 227: Entretien avec l’historienne et journaliste Sophie Bessis
Le projet « Archives d’histoire orale de la production intellectuelle maghrébine » vise à documenter les trajectoires de vie, les formations intellectuelles et les luttes politiques de plusieurs générations de femmes et d'hommes nord-africains qui ont contribué à l...
Episode 226: Musique kabyle traditionnelle : Genre, contexte de production et renouvellement
Ce podcast aborde le thème de la musique kabyle, dite ancienne ou traditionnelle, à la fois ritualisée et profane. Laquelle musique s’observe généralement dans des occasions de réjouissances familiales, comme les fêtes (naissance, circoncision et mariage...
Episode 225: Student Movements and Transnational Connections in Tunisia’s 1968
In this podcast, Burleigh Hendrickson discusses his book, Decolonizing 1968: Transnational Student Activism in Tunis, Paris, and Dakar (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022). The book was awarded the French Colonial Historical Society’s 2023 Alf Andre...
Episode 224: Squaring the Circle: Individual Rights and Collective Property in Rural Morocco
This project examined changing norms regarding pooling and material obligation within Moroccan households and families. It does so in the midst of a political economic shift from agrarian production to a mix of informal wage labor and rentier/remittance economies, one with profound influence on practices of c...Episode 223: Ottoman Continuities and the Development of Modern Education in Tunisia
This project traces the changing role of Ottomanism in relation to the emergence of modern educational institutions in Tunis. The development of the Tunisian education system demonstrated continuous Ottoman links, despite colonial co-optation over time. The social mil...
Episode 222: Tunisian Peinture Sous Verre – A History in Reverse
This lecture provides an introduction to reverse glass painting in Tunisia, a predominantly figurative form of Islamic art that is often referred to as a “popular” tradition. As very little archival material and original documentation exists, most of what...
انطلاقاً من قراءة رمزية للطقوس التي تُمارَس داخل الزوايا، نقوم بتسليط الضوء على البعد الروحي والثقافي لممارسات السماع والمديح ضمن الطرق الصوفية المغاربية والكيفية التي انتقلت بها هذه الممارسات إلى الفضاء العام في صيغ جديدة.
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Episode 220: Entretien avec l’Historien Bechir Yazidi
Le projet « Archives d’histoire orale de la production intellectuelle maghrébine » vise à documenter les trajectoires de vie, les formations intellectuelles et les luttes politiques de plusieurs générations de femmes et d'hommes nord-africains qui ont contribué à la création de la cultu...
Episode 219: Moroccan Publishing, Cultural Decolonization, and the Book Revolution: The Souffles Experience, 1966-1971
During the 1960s and 1970s, Morocco was a center for the invention of cultural decolonization and a key site in the twentieth-century book revolution. A group of young poets, novelists, critics, painters, and photogr...
Episode 218: La loi est là mais qu’en est-il de mon droit ? Devenir du mouvement des Soulaliyates
Cet épisode explore l’évolution du Mouvement des Soulaliyates à la lumière des récentes réformes introduites par la loi 62-17, relative à la tutelle administrative sur les communautés Soulaliyates et à la gestion de leurs biens, promulgué...
Préservée et développée en Algérie après l'expulsion des Maures d'Espagne au 15ème siècle, la musique andalouse est un héritage culturel originaire d'Al-Andalus qui a prospéré dans plusieurs régions du Maghreb jouant un rôle très important en tant que référen...
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