Maghrib in Past & Present | Podcasts

Episode 162: La génération du Môle d’Alger et l’avènement d’un art moderne algérien Dans ce podcast, Lydia Haddag , doctorante en histoire de l’art à l’ Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne , parle de la formation et les recompositions des mondes de l’art algérois au XXème siècle à travers la génération du Môle d’Alger. Aux lendemains de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la génération du Môle rassemble...

Episode 161: Mobility and Social Remittances in Skoura M'Daz, Morocco Climate change and migration have a complex relationship, and Morocco presents an interesting case of intertwining environmental change, national development policies, and human mobility. For her dissertation research, Rachael Diniega looks at the influence of social remittances, intangible non-material transfers across migrant...

Episode 160: Ibn Rushd, Theology, and Morocco In this podcast, Austin Bodetti, talks about Ecotheology, a new academic discipline and social movement, that focuses on the relationship between nature and religion. In a number of Muslim-majority countries, proponents of ecotheology have argued that the Quran, the Hadith, and other religious texts impose a unique obligation on humans: because God pla...

Episode 159: Mobility, Memory, and the performance of Bousaadiya in Libya In this podcast, Dr. Leila Tayeb , Assistant Professor in Residence in the Communication and Liberal Arts Programs at Northwestern University in Qatar (NU-Q) , explores the cultural politics of mobility and memory in Libya. Looking at Bousaadiya, a figure who has been performed in many iterations throughout North Africa, she...

Episode 158: Simulation and Simulacra in the Tripoli Trade Fairs In this podcast,  Stephanie Malia Hom , Associate Professor of Transnational Italian Studies at the  University of California - Santa Barbara , discusses her work on colonial Libya. She applies Jean Baudrillard's ideas of simulacra and simulation to make sense of the way that Italian authorities constructed the Tripoli Trade Fairs (1...

Episode 157: Beit El Bennani, l’histoire d’une archive familiale en Tunisie Dans ce podcast, Mohamed Bennani, propriétaire de Beit El Bennani , une bibliothèque privée à Tunis, parle de l’histoire de sa collection, construite depuis cinq générations et qui abrite des livres rares, des correspondances et d’autres vestiges offerts par des familles. À travers cet entretien, Mohamed Bennani répond aux...

Episode 156: Nils Anderson, l'écriture et l'Algérie, 1957-1969 Dans ce podcast, Pr. Todd Shepard , historien à l' Université Johns Hopkins présente une conférence intitulée : Comment disséminer les leçons algériennes ? Nils Anderson et la naissance du ‘ Tiers-mondisme’ 1957-1969. À l'époque de la décolonisation, un nouveau type de maison d'édition a vu le jour dans plusieurs pays d'Europe occident...

Episode 155: Les modèles théoriques des sciences sociales à l’épreuve du terrain Il ne peut y avoir de doute que Pierre Bourdieu, qui reste parmi les sociologues français les mieux connus dans le monde entier, a forgé ses concepts théoriques principaux en Algérie, pendant la guerre de libération. Des travaux récents, appuyés sur les travaux de Bourdieu et surtout sur les archives laissées par ses...

الحلقة 154: حماية التراث الليبي من خلال تقوية الرابط  بين المجتع و تاريخه في هذا البودكاست، يتحدث خليفة البشباش ،باحث في تاريخ ليبيا، عن المجلة الإلكترونية والمطبوعة  History of Libya التي اسسها والتي تعد بمثابة مشروع تاريخي توثيقي وثقافي، يشرف عليه مجموعة من الشباب اللذين يقومون بجمع المعلومات حول التراث والتاريخ الليبي و عرضها بطريقة مبسطة و ميسرة للقارئ بالرغم من نقص المعلومات الدقيقة والموثوقة...

Episode 153: Rencontre avec Ahmed Mahiou autour de son ouvrage: Au fil du temps et des événements, Mémoires. Dans ce podcast,  Pr. Ahmed Mahiou , ancien doyen de la Faculté de Droit d’Alger, ancien directeur de l’ IREMAM , ancien président de la Commission pour le Droit international, et ancien juge ad hoc à la Cour internationale de Justice , présente son dernier ouvrage Au fil du temps et des év...

Episode 152: Making Space(s) for Arts and Culture in Libya In this episode, Hadia Gana, founder of Bayt Ali Gana , and Faraj Alsileeni, Cultural Manager at  Tanarout Organization for Libyan Creativity , share their experiences opening community spaces for art and culture in Libya. Providing two generations of perspective, the speakers find commonalities in their trials and successes. While budget...

Episode 151: En hommage à feu Rachid Sidi Boumedine (Décédé le 07 novembre 2022): Céramiques d'Alger, toute une histoire Dans ce podcast, feu Rachid Sidi Boumedine, sociologue et urbaniste à l'Université d'Alger a présenté son dernier ouvrage intitulé Céramiques d'Alger, toute une histoire. « Le travail de Rachid Sidi Boumedine vient après un parcours assez diversifié et des écrits sur l’urbanisme...

Episode 150: Heritage Preservation in Libya In this podcast, AIMS  Cultural Heritage Fellow Reem Furjani discusses her research in the Old City of Tripoli, the field of critical heritage studies and her work bridging scholarly research and practice. Cultural heritage studies is a burgeoning academic field that seeks to contribute and expand classic work on heritage practices by introducing bottom-...

Episode 149: Roman Dougga (Thougga) Heritage Preservation in an Antique City Dougga (Thugga) is one the best-preserved Roman towns in North Africa and it is just an hour and a half away from the capital Tunis in the governorate of Jendouba. Because of its excellent preservation and its position as a popular tourist attraction, Dougga serves as a wonderful example and experience of one of the many...

Episode 148: Cultural Preservation in the Medina of Tunis: A Conversation with Leila Ben Gacem In this podcast,  Leila Ben Gacem discusses her projects in the Tunis medina working to preserve physical spaces as well as support, promote and protect local artisans. Her work includes but is not limited to Dar Ben Gacem guest house,  Mdiniti  (the medina’s first economic interest group), and  Dar el H...

Episode 147: A History of Franco-Muslim Education in Morocco and in Northwest Africa Between the 1850s and 1950s, colonial schools called médersas combined elements of French and Islamic educational traditions. First created in Algeria in 1850, the schools spread to the West African colonies of Senegal, French Soudan (today Mali), and Mauritania. The place of Morocco in this history is the subject...

Episode 146: The Worlds of Safia Farhat   In this podcast, the visual artist Slim Gomri speaks about his role in preserving the artistic legacy of Tunisian fibre artist Safia Farhat (1924-2004). Having worked for a number of years at the Abdallah and Safia Farhat Foundation in Radès, near Tunis, Gomri has been involved in the programming of both the Centre des arts vivants and the Safia Farhat Mus...

Episode 145: Landscape and Identity in Medieval Morocco  In this podcast,  Dr. Abbey Stockstill  asks the question why does Marrakesh look the way that it does? The 'Red City' is the topic of her forthcoming book, in which she discusses the medieval city’s relationship with its founding dynasties, the local landscape, and Berber politics in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. As the notion of what...

Episode 144: Contemporary Art in Tunisia As part of the AIMS Contemporary Art Fellowship, Ignacio Villalón conducted research into the contemporary art scene in Tunisia, exploring private and public cultural institutions, sources of funding, questions of language, and ongoing challenges. This project culminated in a report, written for academic and non-academic audiences alike. In this podcast, Vi...

Episode 143: The "Lush Garden" of Andalusian Music   In this podcast,  Dr. Carl Davila  explores the Andalusian music tradition of Morocco, known as al-ala, through the written song collections, such as the famous  Kunnash al-Ha'ik . By examining the literary record, embodied in around 40 handwritten manuscripts found in libraries across Europe and North Africa, we can come to understand the evolu...

Episode 142: Entretien avec Farah Khelil au sujet de son projet Effet de Serre Dans ce podcast, Farah Khelil parle de l’inspiration et du raisonnement derrière le projet  Effet de Serre et revient sur la dualité et la tension entre tradition et modernité à travers une analogie botanique originale. D’une part, ce projet évoque le palmier, arbre symbolique de la tradition coranique, d’autre part l’e...

Episode 141: State-Building and Women in Tunisia In this conversation, Amy Kallander reflects on how the work of Tunisian scholars on trade unions, feminism, and patriarchy informed her approach to thinking critically about state-building in the first decades after independence. Placing ideas about gender and women’s rights in relation to broader debates about cultural decolonization, transnationa...

Episode 140: Modern Art and Architecture in Morocco in the Aftershock of the 1960 Agadir Earthquake On February 29, 1960, an earthquake leveled much of the southern Moroccan coastal city of Agadir. Over the next decade, a new Agadir would be built in an avant-garde brutalist architectural style, representing a concrete example of Morocco’s newly independent future. And yet, this future is haunted...

Episode 139: Artistic Flows From the Levant to North Africa in the 1970s The International Art Exhibition for Palestine opened in Beirut in 1978 with nearly 200 artists from 30 countries. For over a decade,  Rasha Salti and Kristine Khouri led a research project to uncover the history of this and other art collections/museums built in solidarity with political causes, and map networks of artists,...

Episode 138: رمي النفيات بالوسط الحضري: اغتراب في المجال ام عوز في التحضر؟ في إطار التحقيق الميداني الأنثروبولوجي، الخاص بالنفايات المنزلية والتحولات الحضرية، اختار الاستاذ مختار مروفل العمل على تحليل الذهنيات والكيفيات ذات الصلة بالبقايا والآثار، وهذا حتى نفهم الكيفية التي على أساسها ينموا ويتطور المجتمع. إن الذات القمامية -Homo Détritus-، البنت الشرعية لاقتصاد السوق إنما تحيا على الاستهلاك والرم...