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raised this possibility on the basis of a suggestion by a member of the Seruya family still living in Gibraltar, who said that an ancestor served as Moroccan consul or agent in Gibraltar. The Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd edn. (hereafter EJ2), suggests that some members of the family left Morocco during
-confidence to believe that meaningful change can happen if they work hard enough. 37 insofar as the “average Moroccan” of 1968 could read a novel written in modern standard arabic. labyrinthine narratives and peripheral intellectuals 229 be solely motivated by living in the best of circumstances. he’s still
with, finding a contradiction between the novel’s philosophical bent, which leads to abstraction, and the form of the novel itself, which leads to the particular. all four novels— the others are Ismāʿīl al-Būʿanāni’s 1963 That’s Life, Fāṭima al-rāwi’s 1967 Tomorrow We’ll Get Our Land Back and tahami
she belongs. As a graduate of the faculty of letters, she was concerned with the images that the popular media created of her birthplace and her community. Therefore, she felt motivated to become the voice of her ethnic community and express its concerns as well as the daily life challenges facing its
option available but, rather, that any urban model was the product of dynamic variables whose amalgam could vary over time even in the same environment such as the city of Fes. To be sure, if the pattern of political and social life may have seemed to be a constant to those living at the time, its
life in Manchester, then his confusion and alien- ation at what he is told is his “native” culture, then his adaptation to it as a literary critic on the fringes of the nationalist movement. this chapter will use ben Jalloun’s alter ego abdelmajid’s confusion when encountering the spatial practices
been motivated by a desire to sow dissention within the Ayyubid family or to remind Saladin of his obligations, finding success through neither. 11 By the spring of 1174, the political landscape had, in some ways, devolved into a familiar tripartite situation. For the Franks, little had changed
the banners had been rightly ordered, he testified, because “[my men] were afraid that [the Oirats] would kill the sultan and put another [that is, a former sultan, Kitbughā, the benefactor of the Oirats, living in exile in distant Ṣarkhad] in his place.” Moreover, he continued, Salār and Baybars
.w-msi҆-sw Mri҆.y-I҆mn.w ḳn m ꜥnḫ Etymology ( I ): The toponym is a genitive construction between a royal personal name, with an epithet ḳn m ꜥnḫ ‘brave in life’, and the hydrographic term ẖnm.t ‘well’. Location ( I ): Given the inscription at Umm
Franks in 1163, as part of his shift to a more religious way of life. Likewise, as Nur al-Din gained suzerainty over various cities in the Jazira, culminating with Mosul, he did away with these taxes as part of a broader effort to eliminate certain corrupt practices, while also gathering support from his