Professor Naima Lahbil (center, University of Fes) addressing questions during the workshop’s Language, Culture, and Architecture focus session. In September 2018, thanks to an Officer’s Planning Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, CAORC organized and hosted a three-day workshop, “Exploring and Strengthening the Arts and Humanities in the Maghrib,” in Tangier, Morocco. The meeting, which was held from September 25–27 at the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moro

This September, thanks to an Officer’s Planning Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, CAORC will host the three-day workshop, “Exploring and Strengthening the Arts and Humanities in the Maghrib,” in Tangier, Morocco. The meeting, scheduled for September 25–27 at the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM), will bring together leading scholars, humanists, and public intellectuals from across the Maghrib to identify shared concerns, priorities, an

The Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) is pleased to announce a new program on critical research and scholarship in Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia, with generous support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Implemented by the Centre d’Études Maghrébines à Tunis (CEMAT) and the Centre d’Études Maghrébines en Algérie (CEMA), this project will highlight state-of-the art research by North African scholars. Working with an established network of North African

Paul Love is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan, and an CAORC Andrew W. Mellon Mediterranean Regional Research Fellow currently in Tunisia. Paul Love gave a presentation which argued that, like people, manuscripts and books make connections and serve to (re)produce communities and collective memories. Mr. Love's research focuses on five Ibadi Muslim manuscripts/books in North Africa and the Mediterranean as a way of demon

CAORC, and many of the ORCs, will again be attending the annual Middle East Studies Association (MESA) conference this November 21-24 in Denver, Colorado. Below is a list of panels associated with ORCs: The American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) is sponsoring, or has participants on, seven panels: - "Tunisia’s Progress Since the Revolution" (P4066) Saturday, 11/21, 5:30pm - "A Century of Women’s Rights in the MENA: Where Have the Men Gone?" (P4061) Sunday, 11/22, 11am

CEMAT (Le Centre d’Etudes Maghrébines à Tunis) is excited to announce that Imen Chemengui, one of five 2015 Grant for Graduate Research (GGR) scholars, has been at the University of California at Berkeley for the past two months carrying out her research on “The Narration of the Self: Narrative and the Trauma of Colonialism in Joseph Conrad’s Fiction”. Ms. Chemengui, a Ph.D. candidate in English literature at the University of Manouba, is currently preparing to come home aft

Mourad Romdhani – Ph.D. candidate in English Literature from the University of Sousse in Tunisia CEMAT (Le Centre d’Etudes Maghrébines à Tunis) is excited to announce that Mourad Romdhani, one of five 2015 GGR (Grant for Graduate Research in the U.S.) scholars, arrived at the University of Mississippi this July to kick-start his U.S. scholarly campus experience with participation in a conference on William Faulkner. Mr. Romdhani, a Ph.D. candidate in English literature at th