Maghrib in Past & Present | Podcasts

Nov 14 2024 192 ep. 44 mins 291
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Maghrib in Past & Present | Postcasts is a production of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) and its overseas research centers, Centre d’Études Maghrébines en Algérie (CEMA), Centre d’Études Maghrébines à Tunis (CEMAT), and Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM). Use of content for classroom purposes and on other non-profit educational websites is granted (and encouraged) with proper citation. This project is generously funded by a United States Department of Education Title VI Grant for American Overseas Research Centers (2017-2020). Commercial use of this material is prohibited.

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Entretien avec l'économiste algérien Omar Bessaoud

Nov 14 2024 141 mins  
Le projet « Archives d’histoire orale de la production intellectuelle maghrébine », co-organisé par l’Institut Américain d’Études Maghrébines (AIMS) et l’Observatoire de la souveraineté Alimentaire et de l’Environnement (OSAE), vise à documenter les trajectoires de vie, les formations intellectuelles et les luttes politiques de plusieurs générations de femmes e

Digitizing Ibadi Libraries in Jerba and the Jebel Nafusa

Nov 07 2024 26 mins  
In this podcast, Paul Love talks about his work digitizing Ibadi libraries and collections in Djerba and the Jebel Nafusa (northwest Libya). Through these projects, Love evokes broad debates within critical cultural heritage studies. He discusses challenges in terms of preservation and conservation, such as preventing human misuse and regulating human activity in relation to histor

Entretien avec l'anthropologue et sociologue marocain Hassan Rachik

Oct 24 2024 127 mins  
Le projet «Archives d’histoire orale de la production intellectuelle maghrébine», co-organisé par l’Institut Américain d’Études Maghrébines (AIMS) et l’Observatoire de la souveraineté Alimentaire et de l’Environnement (OSAE), vise à documenter les trajectoires de vie, les formations intellectuelles et les luttes politiques de plusieurs générations de femmes et

Memory as Inheritance: North African Jewish Heritage Through Documentary Film

Oct 03 2024 31 mins  
In this podcast, Margaux Fitoussi and Cléo Cohen discuss two of their films, El Hara (2017) and Que Dieu te protège/Rabbi Maak (2021), respectively. Each film asks questions about senses of home, heritage, memory, and displacement among Jewish North Africans. In the interview, Fitoussi and Cohen, who both come from North African Jewish families, discuss their personal relationshi

Entretien avec le sociologue et historien algérien Hassan Remaoun

Sep 26 2024 122 mins  
Le projet « Archives d’histoire orale de la production intellectuelle maghrébine », co-organisé par l’Institut Américain d’Études Maghrébines (AIMS) et l’Observatoire de la souveraineté Alimentaire et de l’Environnement (OSAE), vise à documenter les trajectoires de vie, les formations intellectuelles et les luttes politiques de plusieurs générations de femmes e

Artist talk with Nassim Azarzar on “All Things Flow” (2023), “Bonne Route” (2018-present), and other projects

Sep 12 2024 45 mins  
Nassim Azarzar is an artist and graphic designer researching visual and popular imaginaries in Morocco by exploring their different forms, occurrences, and representation tools. In 2023, Azarzar took part in the project School of Casablanca, initiated by the KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin) and ThinkArt (Casablanca), which draws from the legacy of the Casablanca Art Schoo

Old Marvels, New Approaches: The Revitalization of Balāgha in Moroccan Literary Studies

Jul 31 2024 17 mins  
The science of balāgha is an Arabic scholarly discipline dealing with poetics and rhetoric, one that dates back to at least the 10th century C.E. Scholars of balāgha have long studied how poets convey intellectual and emotional content to listeners by using tools such as vivid imagery, sound play, and stylistic variation. Meanwhile, the relationship between Arabic balāgha and th

Food Crisis, the International Food Regime, and Endless Agrarian Modernization in the MENA Region

Jul 25 2024 50 mins  
The agrarian and food crisis in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have re-emerged vigorously to the attention of global development agencies and governments in coincidence with the Russia-Ukraine war. The food crisis has been interpreted through a number of tropes, including Malthusian, environmentally determinist, security and development economics approaches. Within the dom

Activating Ruins and Performing Power in Colonial Carthage

Jul 10 2024 32 mins  
In the decades leading up to, and during, the French Protectorate (1881–1956), the excavation of ruins became a critical component of a colonialist modernizing practice that saw North Africa’s ancient imperial and early Christian pasts as tangible justification for European dominance. Sites were not only unearthed, but their ruins were consolidated, restored, activated, and fab

Être étranger en situation post-coloniale. Algérie 1962 - 1979

Jun 27 2024 36 mins  
Dans ce podcast, Laura Orban, doctorante en histoire, évoque la question de l’expérience d’extranéité en Algérie de 1962 à la fin des années 1970. À l’Indépendance, tandis qu’une majorité des Français d’Algérie quitte leur terre natale ou de vie pour la métropole, d’autres choisissent de rester. Ils sont rejoints des semaines, des mois ou des années plus t