In this issue
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Issue 09 The Maghreb
Ten Moroccan Oddities
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Culture
Souk Shopping in Tangier
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Ideas, inspiration and ground-breaking thinking on Islam direct to you postbox (or inbox)
Robin Yassin-Kassab has an enlightening sojourn in Morocco, Robert Irwin argues that the great historian Ibn Khaldun was a Sufi, Marcia Lynx Qualey is dazzled by the transformative power of Maghrebi poetry, Julia Melcher explores the absurd world of exiled western writers in Tangiers, Hicham Yezza stands up for the Berbers Rights Movement, Louis Proyect reads recent histories of the Maghrebi Jews, Jamal Bahmad deconstructs revolutionary films that predicted the ‘Arab Spring’, Anita Hunt tackles Mauritanian social norms, John Liechty attempts to get a US visa for his Moroccan wife, Barnaby Rogerson goes souk shopping, Suhel Ahmed watches the classic French-Moroccan film, A Prophet, and Cécile Oumhani’s keeps a record of daily life during the Tunisian revolution.