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2005 – 2006

September 29, 2005
“The Moroccan Truth Commission in Comparative Perspective”
Susan Slymovics, Department of Anthropology, MIT Author of the recently published "The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco", University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005

October 20, 2005
“Saints in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Sacred Images and Religious Icons in Jewish Morocco”
Oren Kosansky, Department of Anthropology, Lewis & Clark College

November 09, 2005
“Longing for the Great Arab Prince: The Use of Pan-Arab Identity in Sixteenth-Century North African Political Propaganda”
Stephen Cory, Department of History, University of Maryland, University College

February 23, 2006
“Hassan II between the Nationalists and the Military: 1955-1985”
Maati Monjib, Visiting Fulbright Scholar, Rainy River Community College Department of History, Moulay Ismail University

2004 - 2005

October 21, 2004
“Henri Duveyrier and the Blue Legend of the Tuareg”
Ben Brower, Department of History, Cornell University

November 3, 2004
“The Muslim Policy of Lyautey in Morocco”
Jamaa Baida, History, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco

December 2, 2004
“Out of the Museum, Out of the Trash: Modern Art and the Struggle for Cultural Legitimacy in Post-Colonial Morocco”
Katarzyna Pieprzak, Romance Languages, William College

December 16, 2004
“Salawat al-Anfas: Hagiography, History and Memory in 19th Century Morocco”
Sahar Bazzaz, History, Holy Cross College

February 10, 2005
“The Invention of Authemticity: Culture and Nationalism in Algeria”
James McDougall, History, Princeton University

2003 – 2004

SPRING 2004

Thursday, February 12, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
"Fragments of History in Colonial Morocco: Prostitution in the Quartier Reserve of Casablanca"
Driss Maghraoui, Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University Room 406, CMES, College House, 1430 Massachusetts Avenue

Wednesday, February 18, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
"Elections and Political Development in Algeria"
Rachid Tlemcani, Institute of Political Science and International Relations, University of Algiers; Currently, Visiting Scholar, CMES, Harvard University Room 406, CMES, College House, 1430 Massachusetts Avenue

Thursday, March 18, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
"Intersecting Trajectories: Language, Archeology and Writing in Contemporary Morocco and the Maghreb"
Rachid Adnani, Middle Eastern Studies, Wellesley College Room 406, CMES, College House, 1430 Massachusetts Avenue

Thursday, April 15, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
"Property and Portraiture: Meaning and Relationship in Arab Culture" Lawrence Rosen, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University
Room 406, CMES, College House, 1430 Massachusetts Avenue

Wednesday, May 5, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
"The Political Dynamics of the Islamists in the Moroccan Parliament"
Saloua Zerhouni, Faculty of Law, Mohammed V University
Room 406, CMES, College House, 1430 Massachusetts Avenue

FALL 2003

Thursday October 9, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
"Law and Sufism in the Maghrib in the 9th/15th century"
David Powers, Cornell University Room 406, CMES, College House, 1430 Massachusetts Avenue

Friday, November 14, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Face to Face with Political Islam
Francois Burgat, CNRS, Paris Room 406, CMES, College House, 1430 Massachusetts Avenue

Wednesday, November 19, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
"Moroccan Migration between the Violence of Crossing and the Luxury of Homecoming"
Mokhtar Ghambou, Yale University Room 406, CMES, College House, 1430 Massachusetts Avenue

Thursday, December 11, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Title of lecture to be announced
Shana Cohen, George Washington UniversityRoom 406, CMES, College House, 1430 Massachusetts Avenue

2002 - 2003

FALL 2002

Thursday October 3, 4:00 PM
"The Politics of Identity in Morocco"
Professor Taieb Belghazi, Mohammed V University, Rabat Room 406, CMES, College House, 1430 Massachusetts Avenue

Tuesday, November 5th, 4:00 PM
"Morocco's Parliamentary Elections: First-Hand Observations of a Regime Transition"
Gregory White, Department of Government, Smith College