Pub Date : 2023-07-07DOI: 10.1353/tmr.2023.a901467
N. Cigar
ABSTRACT:The case of the Swiss businessman Armin Würth who, as a third-country, or what we might call a ‘lateral’, protégé of the United States, sought to invest in manufacturing in pre-Protectorate Morocco highlights both the dysfunctionality of the protégé system and the difficult environment, a reflection of the complex set of domestic and international dynamics, that worked to stifle initiative for economic development.
摘要:瑞士商人Armin w rth作为第三国，或者我们可以称之为“横向”，寻求在保护国之前的摩洛哥投资制造业，凸显了保护国制度的功能失调和艰难的环境，反映了一系列复杂的国内和国际动态，这些动态扼杀了经济发展的积极性。
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Pub Date : 2023-07-07DOI: 10.1353/tmr.2023.a901780
A. Aboussad
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Pub Date : 2023-07-07DOI: 10.1353/tmr.2023.a901472
N. S. Studer
The Moroccan author Reda Sadiki, who has a Ph.D. in medicine from the University Mohammed V in Rabat, has worked as a doctor in both Morocco and France. From this position as a medical authority, he has written a book on “Medicine and Colonialism in Morocco under the French Protectorate”, which was published in 2021 in Casablanca by the publishing house “En Toutes Lettres”. In this book, Sadiki covers the history of medicine in Morocco from the precolonial period to colonial medicine’s epilogue – the long-lasting effect that colonial medicine had on how Maghrebis in general and Moroccans specifically are still viewed in France today. His book is a clear – and successful – attempt at deconstructing the fact that colonial medicine’s role in Morocco is, both in Morocco and in France, still viewed positively today (p. 11). In his view, colonial medicine was not only an effective tool of colonial policy, but one of its “constitutive elements” in Morocco, “that is to say, an integral and substantial part of all stages” of French colonialism (p. 13). In the brief introduction to this book, Sadiki situates himself in the interdisciplinary field of “technoscience studies”, i.e. the social study of science and technology. In the introduction, Sadiki decries the almost hagiographic view of colonial medicine in certain historiographical accounts about Morocco. He explains this, partly, by the fact that the history of colonial medicine in Morocco was first written by the very doctors who had been entrusted by the French government with the mission to establish medical institutions in Morocco. Sadiki points to the inherent biases of this source material and adds that the first generation of historians, who studied aspects of France’s medical mission in Morocco, did not question the accounts and reports of these colonial doctors and consequently reproduced some of their biases. After the introduction, the book is divided into five chapters, which are ordered in a roughly chronological way. The goal of these chapters is the debunking of various myths about French colonial medicine, which, Sadiki suggests, have up to now not yet been deconstructed by historiography. One of these myths is the conviction that modern medicine had been introduced into Morocco by French colonialism, i.e. that Morocco had been, before the installation of the protectorate, medically speaking a virgin country. This myth both suggests that Morocco had languished in misery before the advent of these French doctors in 1912 and paints France as a saviour figure instead of the occupying force it was. Sadiki proposes that there had been a tradition of medicine during the “golden age” of Morocco (which he defines as the time under the Saadi Dynasty), but that, by 1912, Moroccan medicine had indeed
摩洛哥作家Reda Sadiki拥有拉巴特穆罕默德五世大学(University Mohammed V)的医学博士学位，曾在摩洛哥和法国做过医生。作为医学权威，他撰写了一本关于“法国保护国下摩洛哥的医学和殖民主义”的书，并于2021年在卡萨布兰卡由“En Toutes letters”出版社出版。在这本书中，Sadiki涵盖了从前殖民时期到殖民医学后期的摩洛哥医学史-殖民医学对今天法国人如何看待马格里布人，特别是摩洛哥人的长期影响。他的书是一个明确而成功的尝试，解构了殖民医学在摩洛哥的作用，无论是在摩洛哥还是在法国，今天仍然被积极地看待(第11页)。他认为，殖民医学不仅是殖民政策的有效工具，而且是其在摩洛哥的“构成因素”之一，“也就是说，是法国殖民主义所有阶段的组成部分”(第13页)。在本书的简介中，Sadiki将自己定位于“技术科学研究”的跨学科领域，即科学与技术的社会研究。在引言中，Sadiki谴责了某些关于摩洛哥的历史记载中对殖民医学近乎圣徒化的看法。他对此的部分解释是，摩洛哥的殖民医学史最初是由法国政府委托在摩洛哥建立医疗机构的医生撰写的。Sadiki指出这些原始资料固有的偏见，并补充说，第一代历史学家在研究法国在摩洛哥的医疗任务的各个方面时，没有质疑这些殖民医生的叙述和报告，因此再现了他们的一些偏见。导言之后，全书分为五章，大致按时间顺序排列。这些章节的目的是揭穿关于法国殖民医学的各种神话，Sadiki认为，到目前为止，这些神话还没有被历史编纂学解构。其中一个神话是相信现代医学是由法国殖民主义引入摩洛哥的，也就是说，在建立保护国之前，摩洛哥在医学上是一个处女国家。这个神话既表明在1912年这些法国医生到来之前，摩洛哥已经在痛苦中挣扎，又把法国描绘成一个救世主，而不是占领军。萨迪基提出，在摩洛哥的“黄金时代”(他将其定义为萨阿迪王朝统治时期)，就已经有了医学传统，但到1912年，摩洛哥医学确实已经有了传统
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Pub Date : 2023-07-07DOI: 10.1353/tmr.2023.a901474
Mohamed Ben-Madani
Cette deuxième partie des résumés des couvre la periode 2021 et 2022. Ces travaux universitaires permettent de faire le point sur l’ensemble des thèses souteunes dans les universities françaises sur la Libye. Il est à noter que la majorité des étudiants libyens ont fait leurs études supérieures au Royaume-Uni et aux Etat-Unis. Une petite minorité seulement est diplomée des universities canadiennes et francophones européennes. Cela s’explique par le recul de l’enseignement du français dans les écoles libyennes. Ce travail a été realisé grace à nos maintiens de contact avec des chercheurs maghrebins dans plusieurs universities en France. Mais cette bibliographie est incomplete du fait que d’autres thèses ne sont pas accessible pour la consultation dans les bibliothèques universitaires et autres centres de recherche que nous avons pu consulteren France. Les résumés publiés ici sont inédits donc introuvables dans d’autres publications ou sources bibliographiques. Ils seront donc ultérieurement des références de valeur dans toutes les bibliothèques, pour les enseignantchercheur/enseignante-chercheurse et pour les étudiants. Le tirage de ce numéro étant limité. C’est pourquoi il est important que les lecteurs intéressés et les abonnés de The Maghreb Review désirant acquérir ce numéro en fasse la commande dès que possible. Et à notre connaissance aucune de ces thèses n’a été publiée.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-07DOI: 10.1353/tmr.2023.a901473
A. Farouk
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Pub Date : 2023-07-07DOI: 10.1353/tmr.2023.a901469
Michael B. Bishku
ABSTRACT:Saudi Arabia and Morocco are separated by some 5,150 kilometers (3,200 miles) and located at different ends of the Arab world, yet they have the closest ties of any countries between their respective regions: the Arabian peninsula and the Maghreb. This does not mean that there have not been disagreements in perspectives at times, but historically their common connections have outweighed any specific differences. Indeed, there was some tension over the issues of the blockade of Qatar (2017–2021), in which Morocco refused to participate and professed neutrality, and Morocco’s continuing control over Western Sahara, over which there was a perceived lack of diplomatic support from the Saudi government; however, even before the settlement of the Qatar crisis, Morocco’s tariff dispute with Turkey and Saudi Arabia’s unofficial boycott of Turkish goods facilitated rapprochement and a better understanding of each other’s most important security concerns, though respective distinct geopolitical perspectives still persist.This article will review and analyze the bilateral diplomatic relations of Saudi Arabia and Morocco and issues of common concern, since the latter country achieved independence from France in 1956 as a study of two conservative monarchies wanting to preserve their respective political systems and enhance their political influence in their respective regions as middle powers in the face of changing political conditions in the Arab and Islamic worlds.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-07DOI: 10.1353/tmr.2023.a901468
Mustafa Kabha
ABSTRACT:This article explores the Fall of al-Andalus and its use in the development of its memory in modern Arab-Muslim historiography. After its final demise in 1492, Andalusia gradually disappeared from Arab-Muslim collective memory. As part of the Nahda, however, Al-Andalus’ memory began to figure prominently in Arabic literary and public discourse. Using a wide array of literary works and political statements, this paper revisits and broadens the scope of investigations began by Christina Civantos, Mikaela Rogozen-Soltar and Alejandro García-Sanjuán. It shows how contemporary crisis and sense of inferiority some Muslims and Arabs have felt vis a vis Western Europe and North America (“the West”) in modern times, the Palestine Question and recent conflicts, the Iran-Iraq War, civil wars in Lebanon, Algeria, Syria, Yemen and Libya, initiated a multivariate re-interpretation of the role of al-Andalus in modern Arab-Muslim historiography between nostalgia for the past and the dream of an Arab-Muslim revival.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-07DOI: 10.1353/tmr.2023.a901470
O. Mansoury, M. Sebbani
ABSTRACT:D’après l’organisation mondiale de santé, Le système de santé se compose de toutes les organisations, personnes et actions dont l’objectif est de promouvoir, de restaurer ou de maintenir la santé. L’offre de soins dans le secteur public au Maroc est régie par le principe de gradation des niveaux de soins qui reposent sur un système de référence et de contreréférence, le secteur privé participe également à cette offre en suivant un cahier de charge. Le financement est assuré dans une grande mesure par les ménages. Une nette amélioration est notée dans le système de santé marocain par l’engagement de pays dans la voie de l’universalisation de l’assurance maladie, toutefois des efforts doivent être déployés pour mettre en place des stratégies qui se focalisent plus sur les prestations de nature préventives et promotionnelles avec la mise en place d’une approche de la santé dans toutes les politiques.
{"title":"Réflexion sur le Système de Santé du Maroc dans la Perspective de la Promotion de la Santé","authors":"O. Mansoury, M. Sebbani","doi":"10.1353/tmr.2023.a901470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tmr.2023.a901470","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:D’après l’organisation mondiale de santé, Le système de santé se compose de toutes les organisations, personnes et actions dont l’objectif est de promouvoir, de restaurer ou de maintenir la santé. L’offre de soins dans le secteur public au Maroc est régie par le principe de gradation des niveaux de soins qui reposent sur un système de référence et de contreréférence, le secteur privé participe également à cette offre en suivant un cahier de charge. Le financement est assuré dans une grande mesure par les ménages. Une nette amélioration est notée dans le système de santé marocain par l’engagement de pays dans la voie de l’universalisation de l’assurance maladie, toutefois des efforts doivent être déployés pour mettre en place des stratégies qui se focalisent plus sur les prestations de nature préventives et promotionnelles avec la mise en place d’une approche de la santé dans toutes les politiques.","PeriodicalId":85753,"journal":{"name":"The Maghreb review. Majallat al-Maghrib","volume":"16 1","pages":"317 - 321"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88279503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT:This article discusses how forms of humour have been mobilised to negotiate, subvert or sustain various paradigms of structural oppression. By so doing, it highlights the shift between the sacred and the profane; the religious and the secular in performance activism by looking into humour as a genre of Resistance Art, both among secular and religious actors. As case studies, ‘Christian’ comedians Charbel Khalil and animator Ralf Karam exemplify the former (the secular); and ‘Sunni’ Palestinians (involved in nationalist struggle) and the ‘Shi‘a’ resistance movement Hizbullah, the latter (the religious). The rapid evolution of Hizbullah from a marginal splinter group to a dominant segment in Lebanese, regional and international politics enhanced its orientation towards cultural and artistic productions by giving them more weight and visibility in public space. Hizbullah believes that art is the most eloquent and effective means of Islamic propagation; thus relating public interest (maslaha) to reform, resistance, mobilisation and political struggle. That might explain why Hizbullah invests heavily in performance activism. As a Resistance Movement, Hizbullah considers purposeful art, or ideologically motivated art, as Resistance Art. In its ideology, Hizbullah regards popular culture as a site of struggle between: (1) the ‘resistance’ of subordinate groups in society, the subaltern groups, or the ‘oppressed’, and (2) the forces of ‘incorporation’ operating in the interest of dominant groups in society, or the ‘oppressors’. As an Islamic protest (jihadi) movement, Hizbullah considers Resistance Art as counter-hegemonic art, which aims at rectifying individuals and reforming society by portraying art as pious–moral productions that provoke serious thought and discussion, rather than what it considers the ‘purposeless’ ‘art for the mere sake of art’. All of the above, including Hizbullah, consider humour as an ‘agency’; as a socially constructed phenomenon. Both Khalil and Karam support the dictum of ‘scourge of evil laugh’. Their works exemplify the theatre of the absurd: absurdist drama or tragic comedy, replete with oxymora, which Hizbullah also subscribes to. Since Khalil and Karam consider their comic works as ‘artistic resistance’ (muqawama faniyya), then how does their humour differ from Hizbullah’s Resistance Art? Unlike Khalil and Karam, Hizbullah does not consider ‘the widest possible spectrum of humorous expression an artistic, cultural, and social good’ (Schweizer, 2020, p. 36), rather only performance activism of Resistance Art and its derivatives of didactic and purposeful-oriented art and performances.
{"title":"Humour, Jihad Al-Tabyyin and Performance Activism in Lebanon","authors":"J. Alagha","doi":"10.1353/tmr.2023.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tmr.2023.0010","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article discusses how forms of humour have been mobilised to negotiate, subvert or sustain various paradigms of structural oppression. By so doing, it highlights the shift between the sacred and the profane; the religious and the secular in performance activism by looking into humour as a genre of Resistance Art, both among secular and religious actors. As case studies, ‘Christian’ comedians Charbel Khalil and animator Ralf Karam exemplify the former (the secular); and ‘Sunni’ Palestinians (involved in nationalist struggle) and the ‘Shi‘a’ resistance movement Hizbullah, the latter (the religious). The rapid evolution of Hizbullah from a marginal splinter group to a dominant segment in Lebanese, regional and international politics enhanced its orientation towards cultural and artistic productions by giving them more weight and visibility in public space. Hizbullah believes that art is the most eloquent and effective means of Islamic propagation; thus relating public interest (maslaha) to reform, resistance, mobilisation and political struggle. That might explain why Hizbullah invests heavily in performance activism. As a Resistance Movement, Hizbullah considers purposeful art, or ideologically motivated art, as Resistance Art. In its ideology, Hizbullah regards popular culture as a site of struggle between: (1) the ‘resistance’ of subordinate groups in society, the subaltern groups, or the ‘oppressed’, and (2) the forces of ‘incorporation’ operating in the interest of dominant groups in society, or the ‘oppressors’. As an Islamic protest (jihadi) movement, Hizbullah considers Resistance Art as counter-hegemonic art, which aims at rectifying individuals and reforming society by portraying art as pious–moral productions that provoke serious thought and discussion, rather than what it considers the ‘purposeless’ ‘art for the mere sake of art’. All of the above, including Hizbullah, consider humour as an ‘agency’; as a socially constructed phenomenon. Both Khalil and Karam support the dictum of ‘scourge of evil laugh’. Their works exemplify the theatre of the absurd: absurdist drama or tragic comedy, replete with oxymora, which Hizbullah also subscribes to. Since Khalil and Karam consider their comic works as ‘artistic resistance’ (muqawama faniyya), then how does their humour differ from Hizbullah’s Resistance Art? Unlike Khalil and Karam, Hizbullah does not consider ‘the widest possible spectrum of humorous expression an artistic, cultural, and social good’ (Schweizer, 2020, p. 36), rather only performance activism of Resistance Art and its derivatives of didactic and purposeful-oriented art and performances.","PeriodicalId":85753,"journal":{"name":"The Maghreb review. Majallat al-Maghrib","volume":"10 1","pages":"182 - 202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80572867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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