Feb 1

Feb 1 "Post-Colonial Studies in Morocco, North Africa, and the Middle East: a Reading List" compiled by Rachid Touhtou

Amideast Education Abroad encourages study abroad participants to actively question the legacies of colonialism and consider post-colonial realities in their host countries. While this objective is baked into all of our courses at Amideast, we asked our Academic Coordinator in Morocco, Dr. Rachid Touhtou, to compile an essential reading list specifically to this aim.

Said, Edward. (1978). Orientalism. Vintage Books: New York. (open source).
Willis, Michael. (2012). Politics and Power in the Maghreb: From Independence to the Arab Spring. Hurst and Oxford University Press.
Mir, Salam. (2019). Colonialism, Postcolonialism and Globalization and Arab Culture. Arab Studies Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Winter 2019), pp. 33-58 (26 pages). (open source).
Graiouid, Said. (2008). “We Have Not Buried the Simple Past: The Public Sphere and Post-Colonial Literature in Morocco”. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 20(2), 145–158. (open source).
Maghraoui, Driss. (ed.). (2013). Revisiting the Colonial Past in Morocco. Routledge.
Leslie Gross-Wyrtzen & Lorena Gazzotti (2021) “Telling histories of the present: postcolonial perspectives on Morocco’s ‘radically new’ migration policy”, The Journal of North African Studies, 26:5, 827-843, DOI: 10.1080/13629387.2020.1800204. (open source).
El Guabli, B., and J. Jarvis. 2018. “Violence and the Politics of Aesthetics: A Postcolonial Maghreb Without Borders.” The Journal of North African Studies 23 (1-2): 1–12. doi: 10.1080/13629387.2018.1400233. (open source).

Students interested in this topic may be especially interested in Dr. Touhtou’s Community Based Learning course, which is offered every semester.

Boum, Aomar. 2013. Memories of Absence: How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
El Hamel, Chouki. (2013). Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Fanon, Frantz. (2007). The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove/Atlantic, Inc. (open source).
Memmi, Albert. (1991). The Colonizer and the Colonized. Boston: Beacon Press. (open source).
Khatibi, A. (1983). (2019). Plural Maghreb: Writings on Postcolonialism. (trans). London: Bloomsbury.
Rice, L. (2003). Of Heterotopias and Ethnoscapes: The Production of Space in Postcolonial North Africa. Critical Matrix, 14, 36-75. (open souce)
Charrad, Mounira. (2001). States and Women’s Rights: Post-Colonial Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. University of California Press.
Govand, Khalid Azeez (2016). Beyond Edward Said: An Outlook on Postcolonialism and Middle Eastern Studies, Social Epistemology, DOI:10.1080/02691728.2016.1172360. (open source)