Le prolétariat féminin au Maroc  by Fatima Mernissi

“…L’Année du Maghreb…”
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L’articulation du politique dans un espace protestataire en recomposition. Les mobilisations des jeunes Sahraouis à Dakhla by Victoria Veguilla

“…L’Année du Maghreb…”
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La Mauritanie à l’épreuve de l’islamisme et des menaces terroristes by Armelle Choplin

“…Since a few weeks, Mauritania is in front of several terrorist attacks claimed by Al-Qaïda in Maghreb. Radical Islamism is not new in this country but terrorism and violence of these acts are totally unheard. …”
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Les villes en Afrique avant 1900. Bilan historiographique et perspectives de recherche by Clélia Coret, Roberto Zaugg, Gérard Chouin

“…This special issue proposes a historiographical review of research conducted on cities, taking into account the most recent methodological reflections on the issue of the relationship between the urban territory and the exercise of power before the 20th century, focussing on its material and symbolic aspects. Case studies in the Maghreb, West Africa's forest and Sahelian regions and East Africa examine these stakes.…”
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Cities in Africa before 1900. Historiography and Research Perspectives by Clélia Coret, Roberto Zaugg, Gérard Chouin

“…This special issue proposes a historiographical review of research conducted on cities, taking into account the most recent methodological reflections on the issue of the relationship between the urban territory and the exercise of power before the 20th century, focussing on its material and symbolic aspects. Case studies in the Maghreb, West Africa’s forest and Sahelian regions and East Africa examine these stakes.…”
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Nature and Artificiality: in Search of a lost Harmony by Giuseppe De Giovanni

“…Maghreb’s desert, an eternal landscape of slow and irrational creation, or the Motya’s Salterns, geometrical landscape, logical and violent. …”
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Les Banū Thaʻlaba, une famille andalouse à Fès (iiie/ixe-ive/xe siècle) by Aurélien Montel

“…Then, the study of the Banū Thaʻlaba will lead to some more general reflexions about the society of this time, particularly on the integration of Andalusian at the Maghreb al-Aqṣā’ urban elites.…”
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Les enjeux de la bataille de Mânû (283/896) by Virginie Prevost

“…It also offers a comparison between the different accounts available in Ibâḍî and Malikî sources to better emphasize the importance of this event in the historical memory of the Maghreb.…”
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Les étudiants francophones et l’anglais à l’université française : mission impossible? by Nicole Décuré, Elisabeth Crosnier

“…An ethnographic survey of students was conducted at Toulouse III University among students from Maghreb and Sub-Saharan African countries which enabled us to identify some of the factors at work. …”
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La bibliothèque de ʿAbd al-Ḥayy Kattānī by Ilyass Amharar

“…Resulting from years of effort and numerous peregrinations of the Moroccan scholar in the Maghreb, the Middle East and Europe, the thousands of rare manuscripts in the library’s catalogue make this one of the richest and most precious collections of the Arab world. …”
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Techniques hydrauliques et gestion des espaces irrigués dans les huertas de murciennes (ixe-xiiie siècles) by André Bazzana

“…In Murcia, the huerta itself was entirely regrouped, in diverse occasions : the first ones of which are datable of the xiiith century, then of the hydraulic boom of xvth-xvith centuries, and arrangements of the xviiith and xixth centuries ; on the other hand, more upstream, Segura Valley conceals indications of structuring’s modes of the irrigated spaces prior to the mid-xiiith century, which show interesting parallels with those of the Maghreb al-Aqsā.…”
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Tourism, heritage and Islam: Fes, a tourism centre and a Tijani centre by Anne Ouallet

“…The rise in religious tourism is particularly noteworthy in major Tijaniyya centres from sub-Saharan Africa to the Maghreb. This tourism is part of the living practice of Islam. …”
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La diaspora andalouse et le commerce des ports maghrébins (xie-xve siècle) by Dominique Valérian

“…This is due to a long tradition of commerce in the Muslim world, but also to the Reconquista, which forced large groups of Andalusians to emigrate to the sultanate of Granada and to the Maghreb, and even to the Middle East, especially Egypt. …”
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Quand un projet de recherche international se fait accompagnateur d’un parcours doctoral : retours d’expériences des actrices by Catherine Adam, Cécile Plaud

“…Based on a singular device, the RIIME project (Research on Engineers and Innovation Training in the Maghreb Faced with Environmental Challenges), our research questions the learning process of the doctoral students who are involved in it. …”
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A Drinking Problem: French Psychiatric Fears about the Increase in Muslim Alcoholics in Colonial Algeria by Nina Salouâ Studer

“…Until the establishment of psychiatric institutions in the colonial Maghreb in the 1930s, the consensus of most colonial French psychiatrists was that alcoholism had previously been unknown amongst Muslim North Africans, but that it was quickly becoming a medical, social and economic problem. …”
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Projet urbain et paysage littoral by Odile Jacquemin

“…The experience offers an opportunity of appropriation adapted to the Maghreb countries as much as they share similar stakes of Mediterranean littorals.…”
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Identity, imaginary and tourism in the tuareg region, in Niger by Emmanuel Grégoire, Marko Scholze

“…Finally, the authors consider the decline of tourism, as a result of the 2007-2009 rebellion, and the presence in the neighboring Northern Mali of the Salafist brigade Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), which prohibits access to the region to foreigners for security reasons.The brutal halt in the tourist activity came with the decline of the Tuareg subculture that had been forged through their entrepreneurial dedication to tourism.…”
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Le détroit de Gibraltar by Guillaume Le Boedec

“…A real testing laboratory for the outsourcing of European migratory policy and of Maghreb cooperation, the Strait of Gibraltar has emerged as a model «frontier-setting» in the Schengen zone, but also as the symbol of its lack of efficiency. …”
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Sociohistoire d’al-Yawm al-sābi‘ : une revue panarabe en exil (1984-1991) by Aya Khalil

“…As a privileged place for the circulation of Arabist and progressive ideas, the weekly was also a rallying point for Arabic-speaking intellectuals from the Maghreb and the Mashreq, as well as a point of passage between French culture and the Arab world.…”
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« Dans le même temps, je découvre que je suis blanche… ». Entretien avec Christelle Hamel by Christelle Hamel, Isabelle Clair

“…In this interview, conducted in November of 2011, Christelle Hamel reflects on earlier research conducted as part of her doctoral dissertation in anthropology regarding « the managementofHIV infection risk by youngFrenchdescendants ofmigrants from the Maghreb”. She recounts the successive discoveries that marked her inquiry conducted in the 1990’s, the obstacles she encountered, the methodological and theoretical detours she had to take to overcome them, and finally the readings that guided her to unearth “the entanglement of social relations marked by sex, race, age, and class” in the emotional and sexual lives of the people she interviewed.…”
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