The Thomas Cook Archive for the Study of Tourism in North Africa and the Middle East

2003 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Robert Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Colonial Expansion ◽  
Almost Everywhere ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Middle East History

As one of the greatest and fastest-growing industries of our time, one with significant impacts upon societies and economies almost everywhere, tourism (mass travel for pleasure and recreation) merits serious historical study. In the Middle East and North Africa, the turning point in travel for trade, exploration, adventure, and religious inspiration to travel primarily for leisure occurred in Egypt and Syria/Palestine during the 1880s. Tourism, however, is not only intrinsically important. Its origins and development also shed light upon the great themes of Middle East history: (1) modernization (the introduction of Western techniques, methods and materials), and (2) colonial expansion and empire.

Arab Press Networks and Imperial Connectivities from Mediterranean Africa to France in the Late 19th Century

Istoriya ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (7 (105)) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Gavin Murray-Miller
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
French Empire ◽  
Colonial Expansion ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
The Press ◽  
Colonial Governance

The press was an instrument of colonial governance. Yet newspapers and print also served to connect populations across borders and demonstrated how trans-imperial flows influenced empires. This article examines Arab print networks in North Africa and France. It argues that print networks assisted with processes of colonial expansion while also providing a forum for Muslim activists and Arab modernists to present their views to foreign audiences. This two-way channel illustrates how imperialism engendered new synergies that would influence political developments in both the French empire and the modern Middle East, suggesting that print networks were central to the entangled histories of empire in the modern period.

The 5 Ws of Democracy Protests

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawn Brancati
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
New Phenomena ◽  
Shed Light

Recent protests in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as protests a decade earlier in East Central Europe, have peaked public interest while raising concerns about the potential for democracy protests to catalyze major reforms in governance. Although the number of protests that occurred in these periods was remarkable, democracy protests are not a new phenomena, but rather have come and gone throughout history. In some cases, the potential of these protests has been realized and significant reforms have resulted, while in others, the protests have been repressed and hopes of a more democratic future have been crushed. To shed light on these issues, the five Ws of democracy protests—namely what are democracy protests, who organizes and participates in these protests, when and where are democracy protests more likely to emerge, and why do these protests matter—are discussed.

Gender, Power, and Agency in the Historical Study of the Middle East and North Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 561-564
Author(s):  
Sarah Ghabrial
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
Analytic Tool ◽  
Gender Power ◽  
Power And Agency

It is fair to say that some of the most vibrant work—and most challenging questions—surrounding “agency” and its intelligibility have come out of feminist scholarship on the “Muslim world,” broadly defined. This piece considers the transdisciplinary lives of agency as analytic tool, its uses and limitations, its particular proximity to gender-critical research, and, in turn, seeming synonymization with women.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Andrea Ghiselli
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Major Change ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
Foreign And Security Policy ◽  
Securitization Theory ◽  
Shed Light

This Introduction presents China’s nascent strategy to protect its overseas interests, eventually via military means, as a major change in the country’s international orientation. As is the case for other great powers in history, it is a fundamental test for the sustainability of China’s rise. In order to shed light on this issue, this chapter brings securitization theory in, introducing its origin and latest developments, in order to avoid some of the problems that the plague the literature on China’s foreign and security policy. In particular, it is explains why it is important to focus on the role of non-traditional security threats to Chinese interests in North Africa and the Middle East. Against this background, the Introduction concludes with an outline of each chapter, providing an overview of their main content and findings.

Press Propaganda and Subaltern Agents of Pan-Islamic Networks in the Muslim Mediterranean World prior to World War I

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Odile Moreau
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
World War I ◽  
North Africa ◽  
World War ◽  
Subaltern Studies ◽  
Resistance Movements ◽  
The Press ◽  
Mediterranean World ◽  
History Of

This chapter explores movement and circulation across the Mediterranean and seeks to contribute to a history of proto-nationalism in the Maghrib and the Middle East at a particular moment prior to World War I. The discussion is particularly concerned with the interface of two Mediterranean spaces: the Middle East (Egypt, Ottoman Empire) and North Africa (Morocco), where the latter is viewed as a case study where resistance movements sought external allies as a way of compensating for their internal weakness. Applying methods developed by Subaltern Studies, and linking macro-historical approaches, namely of a translocal movement in the Muslim Mediterranean, it explores how the Egypt-based society, al-Ittihad al-Maghribi, through its agent, Aref Taher, used the press as an instrument for political propaganda, promoting its Pan-Islamic programme and its goal of uniting North Africa.

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