Nos Actualités أخبارنا — maghreb

Un renard fennec, le sable et les étoiles, un baobab et un garçon dont l'écharpe se déroule jusqu'à la longueur d'un tagelmust, le turban couvrant le visage porté par les nomades du Sahara, ne sont que quelques-unes des images que les lecteurs chérissent après avoir terminé Le Petit Prince d'Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. La portée du classique pour enfants bien-aimé – sur un pilote qui s'écrase dans le plus grand désert de sable du monde et rencontre un petit garçon venu d'un astéroïde lointain – est aussi vaste que le Sahara lui-même. Cette année, l'histoire a été traduite pour la 300ème...

Adria Lawrence speaks about about the recent elections in Morocco on this week’s Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) podcast with Marc Lynch, “The outcome isn’t really surprising, though very few people expected a big surprise. The PJD [Party of Justice and Development, a moderate Islamist-oriented party]  took more seats than its rival.” Adria Lawrence is Associate Professor of Political Science and a research fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. Her research reflects her expertise in the politics of the Middle East and North Africa. Listen to the full conversation above.

Accounts of travel from the Maghreb to the rest of the world have given birth to a particular literary genre known as rihla. Over the centuries Maghribi scholars traveled to the Mashriq for religious purposes, namely to accompish pilgrimage (rihla hijaziya). Others recorded their travel experience to European countries when they were part of official embassies (rihla sifariya). In both cases the writers of these travel accounts wanted to share their experience with their countrymen and underline how much their culture was different. Today scholars from different disciplines resort to these travel accounts which are a mine of information that...

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