scholarly journals Transformations of identity and space in the Middle East and North Africa

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Raija Mattila ◽  
Ruth Illman
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Current Issue ◽  
Sacred Texts ◽  
Centre Of Excellence ◽  
The University ◽  
Conference Papers ◽  
Eastern Finland

The current issue of Approaching Religion includes articles based on conference papers presented at the Fifth Finnish Colloquium on the Middle East and North Africa Studies, which was organised by the Finnish Institute in the Middle East (FIME), the University of Eastern Finland, Faculty of Theology, and the University of Helsinki, including the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence Changes in Sacred Texts and Trad-itions, in Joensuu, 29–31 May 2017. The theme of the conference was ‘Transformations of Identity and Space in the Middle East and North Africa’, and it explored the construction and transformation of identity in space, whether geographical, mental or virtual.

Middle East/North Africa Program, University of Southern California

1963 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 384-385
Author(s):  
Willard A. Beling
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
International Relations ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
University Of Southern California ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Oriental Studies ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

The University introduced area courses on the Middle East and North Africa into its regular offerings in the academic year 1960–1. This Program is a part of the School of International Relations, and focuses on contemporary area problems, in contrast to the more traditional approach of oriental studies. It also differs by concentrating on both the Mashriq (East) and the Maghreb (North Africa), rather than solely on the eastern Mediterranean. The community of interests, language, and culture of these two regions, plus the increasing importance of North Africa in world affairs, emphasises the practicality of this treatment.

Recent Tunisian Historical Writing on State and Society in Modern Tunisia

1986 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Robert Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Social Evolution ◽  
Active Group ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
Research Project ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
The University ◽  
Local Research

One problem faced by many Western historians of the Middle East and North Africa is a relative ignorance of what is being produced by the local scholars themselves. In the case of the Maghreb, for example, without regular visits to the area, an American researcher may have to wait several years to learn about the publication of a new book or a local research project relevant to his own interests. This observation is certainly true for Tunisia, where a small, active group of historians at the University of Tunis has been examining aspects of Tunisia's political and social evolution in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but whose works, with few exceptions, are not well known to scholars in America.

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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