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Maghrib in Past & Present | Podcasts is a forum in which artists, writers, and scholars from North Africa, the United States, and beyond can present their ongoing and innovative research on and cultural activities in the Maghrib. The podcasts are based on lectures or performances before live audiences across the Maghrib. Aiming to project the scientific and cultural dynamism of research in and on North Africa into the classroom, we too hope to reach a wider audience across the globe.

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Maghrib in Past & Present | Podcasts is a forum in which artists, writers, and scholars from North Africa, the United States, and beyond can present their ongoing and innovative research on and cultural activities in the Maghrib. The podcasts are based on lectures or performances before live audiences across the Maghrib. Aiming to project the scientific and cultural dynamism of research in and on North Africa into the classroom, we too hope to reach a wider audience across the globe.

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Episodes

Comment disséminer les leçons algériennes ? Nils Anderson et la naissance du ”Tiers-mondisme” 1957-1969

3/2/2023
Episode 156: Comment disséminer les leçons algériennes ? Nils Anderson et la naissance du "Tiers-mondisme" 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 occidentale, qui a introduit dans le débat public...

Duration:00:46:38

Les modèles théoriques des sciences sociales à l’épreuve du terrain

2/23/2023
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 collègues et collaborateurs algériens, notamment Abdelmalek Sayad, nous permettent de mieux...

Duration:00:51:56

حماية التراث الليبي من خلال تقوية الرابط بين المجتع و تاريخه

2/8/2023
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 حول هذه المواضيع داخل الوطن وصعوبة اقتنائها من خارجه. يسلط خليفة البشباش الضوء على اهمية حماية...

Duration:00:12:35

Rencontre avec Ahmed Mahiou autour de son ouvrage: Au fil du temps et des événements, Mémoires.

1/19/2023
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 événements, Mémoires. « Bien que j'aie lu un certain nombre de mémoires de personnages historiques...

Duration:01:38:19

Making Space(s) for Arts and Culture in Libya

1/5/2023
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 remains an elusive problem and support from governing institutions can be fickle, both Gana and...

Duration:00:10:40

En hommage à feu Rachid Sidi Boumedine (Décédé le 07 novembre 2022): Céramiques d’Alger, toute une histoire

12/21/2022
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 et est assez novateur dans la mesure où il ne s’attache pas outre mesure à la technique de...

Duration:00:49:14

A Critical Analysis of Heritage Preservation in Libya

12/1/2022
Episode 150: A Critical Analysis of 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-up approaches to preservation theory and practice. Reem’s work...

Duration:00:25:41

Roman Dougga (Thougga), Heritage Preservation in an Antique City

11/10/2022
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 spaces of cultural heritage in Tunisia. In this podcast, Prof. Mounir Khélifa guides...

Duration:00:15:52

Cultural Preservation in the Medina of Tunis: A Conversation with Leila Ben Gacem

10/27/2022
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 Harka (creative industry hub). Dar Ben Gacem encapsulates her work on physical space in the medina....

Duration:00:14:06

A History of Franco-Muslim Education in Morocco and in Northwest Africa

10/6/2022
Episode 147: A History of Franco-Muslim Education in Morocco and in Northwest Afric 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 of this discussion. In the 1910s, early in the protectorate period, the French established two...

Duration:00:15:54

The Worlds of Safia Farhat

9/29/2022
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 Museum in Radès. Established by Safia Farhat in 1982, the Centre des arts vivants offers residencies...

Duration:00:13:24

Landscape and Identity in Medieval Morocco

9/22/2022
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 it meant to be 'Berber' was being defined, the city of Marrakesh emerged as a metropolis that...

Duration:00:16:49

Contemporary Art in Tunisia

6/2/2022
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, Villalón summarises the main findings of his research, focusing on a few select phenomena in the...

Duration:00:23:50

The ”Lush Garden” of Andalusian Music

5/19/2022
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 evolution of the repertoire over the past two and a half centuries. Of special interest here is a...

Duration:00:19:52

Entretien avec Farah Khelil au sujet de son projet Effet de Serre.

5/15/2022
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’eucalyptus, symbole de l’empreinte des colons. D’après elle, la plupart des milieux naturels...

Duration:00:28:33

Thoughts on State-Building, Decolonization, Gender, and Tunisia: Insights from the Global 1960s

5/5/2022
Episode 141: Thoughts on State-Building, Decolonization, Gender, and Tunisia: Insights from the Global 1960s 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, transnational political movements, pan-Arab and...

Duration:00:29:24

Modern Art and Architecture in Morocco in the Aftershock of the 1960 Agadir Earthquake

4/21/2022
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 by the trauma and violence of the past, by way of both the earthquake as well as colonialism....

Duration:00:28:08

From Palestine to North Africa and Back: Transnational Solidarity in the Arts in the 1970s

4/14/2022
Episode 139: From Palestine to North Africa and Back: Transnational Solidarity in the Arts 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, intellectuals and activists that extended from these projects....

Duration:00:46:59

رمي النفيات بالوسط الحضري: اغتراب في المجال ام عوز في التحضر؟

4/7/2022
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 والرمي المزمنين، اللذين غدا بمثابة الرياضة اليومية التي يمارسها الإنسان المعاصر بنهم وشره شديدين،...

Duration:00:18:27

La pollution atmosphérique, un risque majeur en Algérie

3/31/2022
Episode 137: La pollution atmosphérique, un risque majeur en Algérie Dans ce podcast, Dr. Farid Rahal présente une communication portant sur la pollution atmosphérique, un phénomène considéré par le législateur algérien comme un risque majeur, en raison de son impact fortement négatif sur la santé des citoyens et sur l’environnement. Pour évaluer ce risque, le système APOMOS (Air Pollution Monitoring System) a été développé ce qui a permis de mesurer en continu, les concentrations des...

Duration:00:15:59

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