2016 Selected Bibliography

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The Maghreb Review, Vol. 42, 2, 2017 © The Maghreb Review 2017 This publication is printed on FSC Mix paper from responsible sources 2016 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY CURATED BY MOHAMED BEN-MADANI This selected bibliography is published here for the benefit of our readers and subscribers. The price listed here is the price from the Publishers’ catalogues at the time of catalogue publication and does not include packing and postage. 2nd and 3rd edition reprints are not included in this list. Also, some titles may be available only on print on demand which is now quite common practice. Some titles below are in stock at The Maghreb Bookshop, others can be ordered on request. Achcar, Gilbert, Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising, Saqi Books, 2016, £12.99 David Anderson and Jonathan Fisher, Africa’s New Authoritarians, Aid, Securitisation and State-Building, 2016, 176pp, notes, bibliography, index, paperback, £18.00 Has the West tacitly endorsed autocracy in Africa to safeguard economic its interests, or have African rulers manipulated aid and the threat of terrorism to bolster their illiberal regimes? The answer is more complex than that. Abderrahman Beggar. Histoire et mémoire bouraouïennes I (Toronto: York University, The Canada-Mediterranean Centre, ‘Moisaic. Essays’ series, 2016). 155 pages. Paperback Cet ouvrage de A. Beggar est bien étoffe, riche d’enseignements et son écriture vivante, agréable a suivre. Bien plus, comme il traite a la fois de poésie, de littérature, d’histoire, d’art, de philosophie et même de politique. Le regard que son auteur porte sur la pensée critique de Hedi Bouraoui, sa force créatrice, et son analyse de «l’ignorance... comme distorsion des structures», peut fort bien s’inscrire dans la tradition de la critique théorique. A cet regard, la démarche est louable a plus d’un titre car non seulement elle témoigne d’une vision éminemment humaniste - puisque ‘intolérance se nourrit de l’ignorance - mais elle a également le mérite le faire appel a des comparaisons, des parallèles et des rapprochements, noire des convergences avec d’autres écrivains. Nous recommandons chaudement la lecture de ce livre. — Rank Darragi (Université de Tunis) Bellin, Eva and Lane, Heidi E (edit.,) Building Rule of Law in the Arab World. Tunisia, Egypt, and Beyond, 2016, 311 pp, notes, bibliography, index, cloth,£70.50 Bentrovato, Denise, Narrating and Teaching the Nation. The Politics of Education in Pre- and Post-Genocide Rwanda, 2016, 254 pages , notes, bibliography, index, cloth, V&R unipress, Göttingen 214 CURATED BY MOHAMED BEN-MADANI The book investigates the politics of education in pre- and post-genocide Rwanda, examining the actors, interests, and discourses that have historically influenced educational policy and practice and in particular the production and revision of history curricula and textbooks. This study combines a systematic historical and comparative analysis of curricula and textbooks in Rwanda, stakeholder interviews, classroom observations, and a large-scale investigation of pupils’ understandings of the country’s history. Written at a crucial time of transition in Rwanda, it illuminates the role of education as a powerful means of socialisation through which dominant discourses and related belief systems have been transmitted to the younger generations, thus moulding the nation. It outlines emergent challenges and possibilities, urging a move away from the use of history teaching to disseminate a conveniently selective official history towards practices that promote critical thinking and reflect the heterogeneity characteristic of Rwanda’s post-genocide society. Vivian Bickford-Smith, The Emergence of the South African Metropolis Cities and Identities in the Twentieth Century, 2016, 340 pp, notes, bibliography, index, cloth, £64.99 Focusing on South Africa’s three main cities - Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Durban - this book explores South African urban history from the late nineteenth century onwards. In particular, it examines the metropolitan perceptions and experiences of both black and white South Africans, as well as those of visitors, especially visitors from Britain and North America. Drawing on a rich array of city histories, travel writing, novels, films, newspapers, radio and television programs, and oral histories, Vivian Bickford-Smith focuses on the consequences of the depictions of the South African metropolis and the ‘slums’ they contained, and especially on how...