Tout est-il colonial dans le Maghreb ? Ce que les travaux des historiens modernistes peuvent apporter by Isabelle Grangaud, M’hamed Oualdi

“…The colonial history of North Africa, because of its violence and because of the huge transformations it caused within North African societies, shaped a vision of the past that obscured other historical processes far more deeply rooted than colonial processes. …”
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North Africa in the Foreign Policy of Catherine II by A. I. Berezhnov

“…To mitigate these threats, Russia employed diplomatic pressure on the Sublime Porte and sought to negotiate peace agreements with North African states. Nevertheless, these early Russian engagements in North Africa were tentative and often marked by limited success and instances of diplomatic adventurism, leaving several initiatives unrealized.Utilizing archival documents from the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire (AVPRI) and the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts (RGADA), this article provides a detailed examination of Russia’s diplomatic decision-making and negotiations with North African states. …”
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Vous avez dit rock arabe ? Retour sur la trajectoire du groupe Carte de séjour (1980-1989) by Philippe Hanus

“…This group, which incorporates electric guitar, bass and drums established a core rock sound that was “orientalised” by the use of the oud, and North African percussions. The lead singer, Rachid Taha, chose to sing in a mixed langage between Algerian dialect, known as darja, and French slang. …”
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Sedrata : l’élaboration d’un lieu de mémoire by Cyrille Aillet, Sophie Gilotte

“…Almost entirely covered by sand, the archeological site of Sedrata, at about 10 kms south from Wargla, can be considered presently as a real lieu de mémoire for North African Ibadism. Every year a kind of pilgrimage is organised there, with the participation of Ibadi North African communities but also with an increasing variety of other visitors. …”
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La mosquée de Paris. Construire l’islam français et l’islam en France, 1926-1947 by Naomi Davidson

“…The Paris Mosque and the Islamic Institute projects were initially conceived to honor the sacrifices of North African soldiers and intended for construction in the shadow of the Invalides. …”
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Comparative analysis of the Gran Dolina-TD6 (Spain) and Tighennif (Algeria) hominin mandibles by José-Maria Bermúdez de Castro, Maria Martinón-Torres, Aida Gómez-Robles, Leyre Prado, Susana Sarmiento

“…The dental evidence reveals that North African Middle Pleistocene populations are morphologically closer to African Early Pleistocene populations than to TD6 fossils. …”
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L’image de « la Maghrébine » dans le cinéma français (1970-2007) by Tiphaine Manac’h

“…The example of three of those films, made in specific production settings and released in specific socio-political contexts, show that the picture of the North African woman – even if more and more significant – is still distorted.…”
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Penser l'immigration maghrébine avec l'histoire coloniale by Maïlys Kydjian

“…Finally the semantic shifts associating the figures of « the immigrant », « the North African » and « the Algerian » are highlighted.…”
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Être « jeune » dans le Rif oriental by Raymond Jamous

“…In the North African Rif, being a youth is implicitly defined as lacking control over land, which is the foundation of honour and responsibility. …”
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Archéologies maghrébines et relectures de l’histoire. Autour de la patrimonialisation de Paul-Albert Février by Clémentine Gutron

“…The author points to the absence of a reflexive historiography in the study of North African antiquity, and sheds light on the difficulties encountered by the human sciences, today as yesterday, in addressing issues raised by those who, in a generation marked by the independence movements of the Maghreb, assumed the choice of a story that does not deny the reality of the present by enclosing themselves in a dead scholarship.…”
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L’espace domestique des migrants marocains : les extensions transnationales de l’intimité familiale by Jordan Pinel, Thomas Lacroix

“…The aging of North African migrants has spurred a renewal of scholarly interest in their residential practices. …”
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Comparative Study on the Efficiency of Islamic Banks and Conventional Banks During the COVID-19 Outbreak by Naima Lassoued, Imen Khanchel, Wiem Saidani

“…This study investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the efficiency of Islamic and conventional banks, focusing on Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries. Analyzing a sample of 134 banks across 10 MENA nations from 2011 to 2021, we evaluate technical efficiency scores (including global technical efficiency, pure technical efficiency, and scale efficiency) utilizing Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) followed by Tobit random effect regression. …”
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Vers une autonomisation du champ des sciences sociales turques by Jean-Baptiste Le Moulec

“…From the social science sector then emerge networks of experts discussing Turkish national foreign policy. While North-African revolutions offer a new opportunity to experts to promote the «Turkish Model », the Syrian civil war and its consequences on Turkey’s national politics, intensify the field’s ideological polarization and seems to trigger a kind of empowerment of social scientists from the political sphere.…”
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« Villes nouvelles » et urbanités émergentes dans les périphéries de Constantine et Marrakech by Jean-Marie Ballout

“…Since 2000, the outskirts of major North African cities have become the stage of many urban developments, undertaken with a project approach. …”
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Intravascular Large B-Cell Lymphoma by Mehdi Loukhnati, Fatima Ezzahra Lahlimi, Illias Tazi

“…We present the case of a 55-year-old North-African man with no prior history of neoplastic disease presenting with weight loss and an isolated splenomegaly. …”
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Des “hermaphrodites de nationalité” ? Colonisation maritime en Algérie et naturalisation des marins-pêcheurs italiens de Bône (Annaba) des années 1860 à 1914 by Hugo Vermeren

“…The history of the maritime colonization of Algeria in the 19th century underlines the constant dialectic that the French colonial authorities were facing when dealing with the de facto Italian monopoly on fishing and sailing along the North African shores. Instrumental for the military conquest of Algeria, the Italian fishermen were considered essential not only for the fishing industry in this area but also for peopling port cities such as Bône. …”
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This is Improper and Irreligious by Gibson Ncube

“…In their different iterations of the intersection of queerness and the practice of Islam, Imarat Yácubyan and Une Mélancolie Arabe open new spaces for understanding Islam and, specifically, what it means to be queer, Arab, and Muslim within the sociocultural context of North African countries. …”
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Regards croisés sur l’action diplomatique française en Amérique latine : le voyage de Louis Jacquinot (1958) by Alvar de La Llosa

“…The visit of Jacquinot, a high-ranking civil servant, to South America in 1958 heralded a new orientation in France’s foreign policy towards Latin America, at a time when the election of de Gaulle to French Presidency allowed for a solution of the troubles in the French North African colony of Algeria, thus paving the way to new diplomatic activities. …”
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Au-dessus de tout soupçon ? L’entrée dans l’homosexualité de filles de migrants nord-africains by Laure Anelli

“…This article is based on a qualitative inquiry using sociological interviews with ten lesbian descendants of North African migrants, aged from 19 to 33 years and living in the Paris area. …”
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La propagande arabe anglaise vers le Maghreb pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale (1939-1943) by Fayçal Cherif

“…This article examines the developing of British Arabic propaganda and seeks to measure its degree of success or failure in the face of other subversive propaganda particularly from Germany and Italy and especially its impacts on the North African populations from 1939 till May 1943.…”
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