New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien. 1 ill. The chapters of this book offer a broad overview of the culturally rich, complex, and rapidly changing world of Arab-Islamic North Africa. The authors are scholars and professors who represent a wide range of nationalities, specializations, methodologies, and points of view. Fields of interest included in the volume are women and Islam, the Berber question, Islamic reassertion, U.S. foreign policy, the transnational Maghrebi migrant in Europe, film, music, and language and literature. This book provides valuable insights for students, scholars, and others interested in a part of Africa that has a venerable history and culture and that is becoming more and more intertwined with Europe and the United States. Contents: Ralph M. Coury: Introduction - Lise Garon: Freedom for Moroccans? A Meaningful Case of the Development of a Stable Polyarchy - Azzedine Layachi: Islamism in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia and the Struggle for Change - Oliver Wilcox: Pivotal or Peripheral? The Maghreb in U.S. Foreign Policy - Michael J. Willis: Islamism in Algeria: The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion - Asma Barlas: Sex, Texts, and States: A Critique of North African Discourses on Islam - David Crawford/Katherine E. Hoffman: Essentially Amazigh: Urban Berbers and the Global Village - Alec G. Hargreaves: The 'Beurs': Between and Beyond National Boundaries - Rafika Merini: A Socio-Literary Perspective of Women in the Maghreb: Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia - Stephanie S. Saad: Interpreting Ethnic Quiescence: A Brief History of the Berbers of Morocco - William C. Young: The Cultural Dimensions of the Sudanese Civil War - Roy Armes:Reinterpreting the Tunisian Past: Les silences du palais - Susan Ireland: The Second War of Algeria: The Representation of History in Fictional Works of the 1990s - R. Kevin Lacey: Western Movie Representations of Arab-African North Africa: The Sheltering Sky and the Question of Orientalism - John Maier: Literate Women in Three Moroccan Writers - Francis Poole: The Wind and the Lion: Myth versus Reality in the Life and Times of Moulay Ahmed al-Raisuli - Rod Skilbeck: Mixing Pop and Politics: The Role of Rai in Algerian Political Discourse - Ben Yarmolinsky: Some Remarks on Jilala Music from Tangier, Morocco.

Writing Tangier discusses an array of topics relating to the literature on Tangier from the seventeenth century to the present. Major questions include: Why has Tangier come to play an important role in contemporary world literary history as a signifier in the literary imagination; what is the nature of the inter-textual output produced through Paul Bowles' translations of the oral tales of a circle of uneducated storytellers (including Mohammed Mrabet and Larbi Layachi) and the text (For Bread Alone) brought to Bowles by the literate Mohamed Choukri; how do academics, artists, and writers who have been based in the city or who have written about it assess the various socio-economic, political, and cultural factors that have shaped its cultural production and the relationship of this production to the celebrated hybrid aspects of its identity; does the success of the literature of Tangier reflect a truly new multicultural cosmopolitanism, or does it stem from the fact that this literature is congenial to Westerners, that it is understood in terms that they themselves define, and that much of it (including productions in Arabic prepared with the expectation of translation) has even been «written to measure for them?