Maghrib in Past & Present | Podcasts

Maghrib in Past & Present | Podcasts

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 in the Maghrib. The podcasts are based on lectures, live performances, book talks, and interviews across the region. 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.

Episodes

April 17, 2025 19 mins

Episode 202: Moorish Refugees in the Early Modern Mediterranean

In this podcast, Andrew Russo, Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of Rochester, discusses his current project on the Morisco community in early modern Morocco, Tunisia, and Sicily. Russo outlines current trends in the historiography of the Moriscos, including a...

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Épisode 201: Entretien avec l’architecte Sihem Lamine

Le projet « Archives d’histoire orale de la production intellectuelle maghrébine » vise à documenter les trajectoires de vie, les formations intellectuelles et les luttes politiques de plusieurs générations de femmes et d'hommes nord-africains qui ont contribué à la création de la culture écrite et parlée dans cette...

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Épisode 200: Rencontre avec Ramdane Asselah autour de son ouvrage: Mémoires d’un militant de l’OS

À la fois émouvant et authentique, ce livre retrace le parcours, le combat et la résistance d’un homme durant la période la plus difficile du nationalisme algérien.

À travers ce récit, Ramdane Asselah, restitue un pan entier de notre histoire «la lutte, nous-dit il, mène t...

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Episode 199: Entretien avec L’économiste Najib Akesbi

Le projet « Archives d’histoire orale de la production intellectuelle maghrébine » vise à documenter les trajectoires de vie, les formations intellectuelles et les luttes politiques de plusieurs générations de femmes et d'hommes nord-africains qui ont contribué à la création de la culture écrite et parlée dans cette...

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Episode 198: Entretient avec la sociologue et anthropologue Fatma Oussedik

Le projet « Archives d’histoire orale de la production intellectuelle maghrébine » vise à documenter les trajectoires de vie, les formations intellectuelles et les luttes politiques de plusieurs générations de femmes et d'hommes nord-africains qui ont contribué à la création de la culture écrite...

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Episode 197: Scribal Networks and Diplomatic Knowledge Production across North Africa

What did trans-Maghribi society look like on the eve of colonialism? Who travelled across these spaces and for what reasons? This interview is an early exploration into Dr. Kitlas’ second project, which proposes a more attentive engagement with the ...

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Episode 196: Entretien avec l’économiste Benabbou Senouci

Le projet « Archives d’histoire orale de la production intellectuelle maghrébine » vise à documenter les trajectoires de vie, les formations intellectuelles et les luttes politiques de plusieurs générations de femmes et d'hommes nord-africains qui ont contribué à la création d...

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January 9, 2025 69 mins
Episode 195: Current Issues in Africa Today

 

In this lecture, Dr. Fadhel Kaboub identifies the political and economic dynamics between the Global North and South since the wave of African independence in mid-20th century, by which the former has continued its colonial methods of resource extraction, steering the economies of the la...

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Episode 194: Entretien avec le politologue et sociologue Mohamed Tozy

Le projet «Archives d’histoire orale de la production intellectuelle maghrébine» vise à documenter les trajectoires de vie, les formations intellectuelles et les luttes politiques de plusieurs générations de femmes et d'hommes nord-africains qui ont contribué à la ...

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Episode 193: Entretien avec l'économiste Azzam Mahjoub (Décédé le 8 décembre 2022)

Le projet « Archives d’histoire orale de la production intellectuelle maghrébine » vise à documenter les trajectoires de vie, les formations intellectuelles et les luttes politiques de plusieurs générations de femmes et d'hommes nord-africains qui ont contribué à la création de la culture écrite et pa...

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November 14, 2024 141 mins

Episode 192: Entretien avec l'économiste Omar Bessaoud

Le projet « Archives d’histoire orale de la production intellectuelle maghrébine » vise à documenter les trajectoires de vie, les formations intellectuelles et les luttes politiques de plusieurs générations de femmes et d'hommes nord-africains qui ont contribué à la création de l...

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Episode 191: Digitizing Ibadi Libraries in Jerba and the Jebel Nafusa

In this podcast, Paul Love talks about his work digitizing Ibadi libraries and collections in Djerba and the Jebel Nafusa (northwest Libya). Through these projects, Love evokes broad debates within critical cultural heritage studies. He discusses challenges in terms of preservation ...

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Episode 190: Entretien avec l'anthropologue et sociologue Hassan Rachik

Le projet « Archives d’histoire orale de la production intellectuelle maghrébine » vise à documenter les trajectoires de vie, les formations intellectuelles et les luttes politiques de plusieurs générations de femmes et d'hommes nord-africains qui ont contribué à la création de la...

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Episode 189: Memory as Inheritance: North African Jewish Heritage Through Documentary Film

In this podcast, Margaux Fitoussi and Cléo Cohen discuss two of their films, El Hara (2017) and Que Dieu te protège/Rabbi Maak (2021), respectively. Each film asks questions about senses of home, heritage, memory, and displacement among Jewish North Africans. In...

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Episode 188: Entretien avec le sociologue et historien Hassan Remaoun

Le projet « Archives d’histoire orale de la production intellectuelle maghrébine » vise à documenter les trajectoires de vie, les formations intellectuelles et les luttes politiques de plusieurs générations de femmes et d'hommes nord-africains qui ont contribué à la création de la c...

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Episode 187: Artist talk with Nassim Azarzar on “All Things Flow” (2023), “Bonne Route” (2018-present), and other projects

Nassim Azarzar is an artist and graphic designer researching visual and popular imaginaries in Morocco by exploring their different forms, occurrences, and representation tools. In 2023, Azarzar took part in the ...

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Episode 186: Old Marvels, New Approaches: The Revitalization of Balāgha in Moroccan Literary Studies

The science of balāgha is an Arabic scholarly discipline dealing with poetics and rhetoric, one that dates back to at least the 10th century C.E. Scholars of balāgha have long studied how poets convey intellectual and emotional conten...

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Episode 185: Agricultural Modernization in the MENA Region

The agrarian and food crisis in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have re-emerged vigorously to the attention of global development agencies and governments in coincidence with the Russia-Ukraine war. The food crisis has  been interpreted through a number of tropes, including Malthusian,...

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Episode 184: Activating Ruins and Performing Power in Colonial Carthage

In the decades leading up to, and during, the French Protectorate (1881–1956), the excavation of ruins became a critical component of a colonialist modernizing practice that saw North Africa’s ancient imperial and early Christian pasts as tangible justification for European dominance. Sites were not only unearth...

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Episode 183: Être étranger dans l'Algérie indépendante, 1962-1979  

Dans ce podcast, Laura Orban, doctorante en histoire, évoque la question de l’expérience d’extranéité en Algérie de 1962 à la fin des années 1970. À l’Indépendance, tandis qu’une majorité des Français d’Algérie quitte leur terre natale ou de vie pour la métropole, d’autres choisissent de rester. Ils sont rej...

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