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lundi 12 février 2024 [Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée]
L’ouvrage collectif sous la direction de Benjamin Gourisse et d’Işıl Erdinç a une ambition importante : documenter les mécanismes sociaux de la (re)production de la domination politique en Turquie contemporaine. En revisitant les notions classiques de la sociologie bourdieusienne,...
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HUSSAIN Adeel, Revenge, Politics and Blasphemy in Pakistan
lundi 12 février 2024 [Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée]
Paris, le 25 septembre 2020. Zahir Hassan Mahmood, un jeune homme originaire de la province pakistanaise du Pendjab et arrivé en France trois ans auparavant, attaquait à l’arme blanche deux personnes près des anciens locaux de Charlie Hebdo, persuadé qu’il s’agissait d’employés du...
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REY Matthieu, When Parliaments Ruled the Middle East: Iraq and Syria, 1946-63
lundi 12 février 2024 [Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée]
What are the roots and institutional characteristics of parliaments in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq and Syria, and why weren’t they capable of withstanding the tide of authoritarianism and radical politics which became the defining characteristics of the late 1950s and early 1960s?...
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Malika Rahal, Algérie 1962. Une histoire populaire
lundi 12 février 2024 [Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée]
Ce livre tant attendu dans le milieu des historiens du Maghreb et de l’Algérie contemporaine, est le fruit non seulement d’un travail exigeant de préparation d’une habilitation à diriger des recherches, non seulement de recherches elle-mêmes aussi inventives qu’intensives, mais de...
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PERRIER Antoine, Monarchies du Maghreb. L’État au Maroc et en Tunisie sous protectorat (1881-1956)
lundi 12 février 2024 [Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée]
L’ouvrage d’Antoine Perrier, version remaniée d’une thèse de doctorat soutenue en 2019 à Sciences-Po, pose la question de la nature de ce mode de colonisation qu’est le protectorat. Les protectorats, en Tunisie (1881-1956) et au Maroc (1912-1956), se définissent d’abord par la...
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Biancani Francesca, Sex Work in Colonial Egypt: Women, Modernity and the Global Economy
vendredi 3 décembre 2021 [Égypte/Monde arabe]
The absence of licensed brothels in today’s Cairo is haunted by the stories presented in Francesca Biancani’s monograph. Through an extensive archival work supported by an anthropological eye, she investigates a currently invisible phenomenon that was once a subject of many legal debates and...
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The Afterlives of Cairenes: the Making of New Social Geographies from Elsewhere than Bulaq Abule’lla
vendredi 3 décembre 2021 [Égypte/Monde arabe]
Some major events change people’s lives, while everyday events constitute their living times. In this paper, I look at the afterlives of Maspero Triangle and Ramlet Bulaq where the residents were dispossessed through forced and negotiated evictions (Khalil 2019, 102), unfulfilled promises, and...
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The Violence of Memory and Movement: Reading Cairo from its Ring Road
vendredi 3 décembre 2021 [Égypte/Monde arabe]
This paper explores the memory of construction and destruction on the Greater Cairo Ring Road, a 106-km road encircling Cairo and its periphery. Taking two novels, East of the Ring Road and Fleeing the Ring Road, as my interlocutors, I ask: how do the Ring Road’s literary narratives complement a...
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The Three Decisions of Umm Bîjû: Walking in Suez and Seeing the Ghosts of 1967 War
vendredi 3 décembre 2021 [Égypte/Monde arabe]
Umm Bîjû was among the few people who decided not to leave Suez after the 1967 war when almost 70% of the inhabitants had to leave the city because of the war. During my fieldwork in November 2018, she decided to walk me around her neighborhood in Suez, al-Kassâra. This article follows three...
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Lamenting Old Nubia Through Music: Between Past and Present, Egypt and the Diaspora
vendredi 3 décembre 2021 [Égypte/Monde arabe]
This paper focuses on the relationship between memory, music and space in the Nubian displaced villages, near Kom Ombo. The construction of the Aswan High Dam (1964) and the displacement of 113 000 Nubians has left them facing trauma of loss and sorrow. A new genre in Nubian music called aghânî...