This comprehensive Routledge Handbook on the Modern Maghrib introduces and analyses the region in its full complexity, focussing on the countries of Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Libya, as well as the regions of the northern and western Sahara.
In addition to country studies that provide historical and geopolitical background, a series of thematic explorations engage with a range of social, linguistic, cultural and economic aspects, providing a rich mosaic of current scholarship on the region. Addressing important debates such as the volatile international relations among constituent states, the role of women in society and the environmental impact of climate change, the book considers natural resources, music, media and language, and revisits the history of borders and social tribal structures. What emerges is not only a variegated picture of the Maghrib as a complex and rapidly changing region, but one marked by stark contrasts and divergences among its constituent states based on their Ottoman and colonial experiences, their relationships with their Saharan and Mediterranean neighbours and their own political trajectories.
This Handbook fills an important gap in knowledge on a region increasingly significant in European and American affairs, and will appeal to anyone interested in the history, economies and societies of North Africa.
Introduction
George Joffé
Part I: Country Studies
1. The Maghrib Before Colonialism
C.R. Pennell
2. Libya since 1835 and the Second Ottoman Occupation
Ronald Bruce St John
3. Tunisia from 1830 and Ahmad Bey’s Modernisation
Zoe Petkanas
4. Algeria from the French Invasion in 1830
Phillip C. Naylor
5. Morocco under the Alawites from the 1600s
David Stenner
6. The Western Sahara
Jeremy Keenan
7. Regional Borders and the Modern State in North Africa
George Joffé
Part II: Thematic Studies
8. The Geography of the Maghrib: Resources, Demographics and Climate Change
George Joffé
9. Economy and Society in the Maghrib after the Arab Spring
Shana Cohen
10. Women in the Maghrib: Legal, Political, and Social Context
Habiba Chafai
11. Amazighité vs. `Uruba – Ethnicity in the Maghrib
Bruce Maddy-Weitzman
12. Peoples of the Sahara
Jeremy Keenan
13. Language Policy and Polyglottism in the Maghrib
George Joffé
14. The Maghrib Musical Scene
Christopher Witulski
15. The Maghrebi Multilingual Novel
Karima Laachir and Irene Fernández Ramos
16. Soccer: Moulding the Middle East and North Africa
James M. Dorsey
17. Judaism in the Maghrib
Norman A. Stillman
18. Christianity in the Maghrib
Patrick J S Brittenden
19. The Role of Islam in the Maghrib: Salafism, Islamism, and Sufism
Azzedine Layachi
20. Political Islam and the Challenge of Participation in North Africa
Alison Pargeter
21. Terrorism, Chaos and Conflagration in the Sahara and Sahel (2003-2021)
Jeremy Keenan
22. The 2011 Uprisings in North Africa: Causes and Consequences
Francesco Cavatorta
23. Traditions of Governance in North Africa
George Joffé
24. The Tunisian Experience Post-2011: The Crisis of Democratization
Larbi Sadiki and Layla Saleh
25. Media in the Maghrib
Roxane Farmanfarmaian
26. Political Parties in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia
Valeria Resta and Francesco Cavatorta
27. Between the Mediterranean and the Sahel: Inter- and Intra-Regional Affairs
George Joffé
28. Foreign Affairs of the Maghrib – Europe, the United States, Russia, the GCC and Turkey
Yahia H. Zoubir and Emilie Tran
29. The Maghrib Economies: A Perpetual Search for Relevance and Reform
Jon Marks
30. The Role of Oil and Gas in the Maghrib
John Hamilton
Biography
George Joffé was a Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the University of Cambridge and Visiting Professor at King’s College London. He was the founding editor of the Journal of North African Studies and founder of the Centre of North African Studies in the UK. He served on the Board of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs, and of The Middle East in London magazine at SOAS University of London. He published prolifically and widely on the geopolitics of North Africa and the Middle East, climate change, energy security, extremism and regional economics.
