Bruce Maddy-Weitzman
Biographic Data
| ID | 130627 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce Maddy-Weitzman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce |
| FAMILY NAME | Maddy-Weitzman |
| SIGNATURE | MADDY-WEITZMAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9430-2098 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Instrumentalizing Arabism: Morocco and the Inter-Arab System
The changing contours of Morocco's involvement in the inter-Arab system over nearly a century was largely instrumental. It was driven by both "realist" concerns and domestic political issues related to fundamental matters of regime legitimacy and societal cohesion, i.e. the very nature of Moroccan national identity. With the decline of Arabism's political salience, and a monarch who preferred to keep a low profile in Arab affairs, Morocco's relat…
Algeria revisited: History, culture and identity, edited by Rabah Aissaoui and Claire Eldridge
France’s fateful encounter with Algeria, beginning with its successful invasion and removal of the ruling Ottoman regime in 1830, has never ceased to provide a rich source of material for scholars
Insécurité à la périphérie: Les griefs socio-économiques et le mouvement amazigh au Maroc
LA SEANCE D'OUVERTURE : ( La matine du 11 octobre ). 1. Un sminaire sur le thme les Droits de l'Homme et les Droits des Peuples Autochtones la lumire de la Convention n169 de l'OIT a t organis du 10 au 14 octobre 2003 l'Ecole des Mines Rabat. Le sminaire a t organis par l'Association TAMAYNUT avec le soutien de l'Organisation Internationale du Travail (OIT). L'OIT tait reprsente par Mme Francesca Thornberry. 2. Aprs le premier sminaire rgional or…
Challenging the State, Redefining the Nation: The Contemporary Amazigh Movement in Turbulent Times
This article examines the efforts of the Amazigh (Berber) identity movement during the last 7 years to redefine the content of North African states’ collective national identities, and the responses of state and other societal actors during a period of renewed political contestation. In highlighting the increasingly charged and contested political environment in North Africa, it argues that (a) the Berber-Amazigh identity movement has registered …
Berbers and the Nation-State in North Africa
Throughout history, North Africa’s native Berber-speaking populations have been central to the mix of political, social, cultural, and linguistic attributes that rendered the region distinct. At the dawn of the 20th century, Berbers still constituted a substantial majority of sharifian Morocco’s population, and a significant minority of French Algeria’s Muslim populace; their numbers were smaller in Ottoman Libya and smaller still in France’s Tun…
Les revendications amazighes dans la tourmente des « printemps arabes »: Trajectoires historiques et évolutions récentes des mouvements identitaires en Afrique du Nord
En Afrique du Nord, les revendications linguistiques et culturelles amazighes mobilisent toute une série d’acteurs collectifs. La structuration organisationnelle, la trajectoire, les répertoires d’actions et le pouvoir de se faire entendre de ces derniers varient selon les situations nationales tandis que se développent des références communes pan-amazighes. L’ancrage historique, la nature et la radicalité de ces réalités revendicatives divergent…
B erbers ( A mazigh)
Berbers, from the Greek word meaning “barbarian,” are the indigenous peoples of the Maghrib (in North Africa west of the Nile Valley) and have existed in that area since the beginning of recorded history. The term is viewed as pejorative by the modern Berber identity movement and hence is increasingly being supplanted by “Amazigh” (free man). The Berbers number more than twenty million and reside primarily in Morocco and Algeria. The Berber langu…
The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda
Picturing Algeria
A turning point? The Arab Spring and the Amazigh movement
This study examines the place of the Amazigh movement and communities in the evolving political fortunes of North African states. It evaluates the prospects for attaining a genuine recognition of Amazigh ethnocultural demands as part of a broader democratic transformation of society and state, and the Amazigh movement's likely contribution to that transformation. The Amazigh movement has the potential to make alliance with governments and other s…
Encountering Morocco: Fieldwork and Cultural Understanding, by David Crawford and Rachel Newcomb (eds.)
I first encountered Middle Eastern Studies in 1975, when I began my graduate studies. As I began perusing the articles between its muted green covers (there must have been approximately 40 numbers
Religious Radicalism in the Greater Middle East
Contemporary Review, July 1997 insightful, well-documented anthology clearly identifies the common thread and threat of religious extremism affecting the entire Middle ... reader will find much food for thought here and a welcome antidote to the all too frequent sensationalism of simplistic media coverage ... book is not only topical and up to date but embodies in its fourteen portrait studies all the fundamental elements of the cultural geograph…
Mobilised diasporas: Kurdish and Berber movements in comparative perspective
This study is a comparative analysis of the role of diaspora communities in the political and cultural activities of the Kurds and the Berbers (Amazigh) - the two most prominent cases of ethno-national “imagining” among the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region’s two main “non-dominant” ethnic groups. Berbers and Kurds, however heterogeneous and varied their multiple historical experiences, all operate within the realm of territorial nation-…
Forgotten saints: History, power, and politics in the making of modern Morocco
Sahar Bazzaz, (Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs, 41), Cambridge, MA, Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2010, 192 pp, £14.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-674-03539-3 In April 1909, soldiers of
Arabization and Its Discontents: The Rise of the Amazigh Movement in North Africa
The Berber-Amazigh identity movement has emerged in recent decades in North African states, demanding official recognition of linguistic and cultural rights and challenging the hegemonic narrative of history propagated by ruling elites who advocate the full Arabization of society and the reduction of Berber culture to folklore status. In recent years, the movement has gained a measure of linguistic and cultural recognition from North African stat…
Historic departure or temporary marriage? The Left–Islamist alliance in Tunisia
Tunisia's “Revolution of Dignity” lit the spark for the tsunami of popular protests, the misnamed “Arab Spring” that engulfed the region in 2010–11. A central aspect of Tunisia's ongoing transition has been an alliance between the Islamist Ennahda party and two leading secular-left-of-center parties, which came together after the October 2011 Constituent Assembly elections to form a broad-based interim government until the completion of a new con…
Contemporary Morocco: State, politics and society under Mohammmed VI
Introduction Part I: The State and the Political System 1. Wine in Old Bottles: Political Parties under Mohammed VI James N. Sater 2. The Monarchy and Islamism in Morocco: Ritualization of the Public Discourse Mohamed Daadaoui 3. The Second Coming of Morocco's Commander of the Faithful: Mohammed VI and Morocco's Religious Policy Abdelilah Bouasria 4. The Amazigh Renaissance: Tamazight in the Time of Mohammed VI Mohammed Errihani 5. Mohammed VI an…
Looking Back: Arab Politics During the Formative Years
Three dramatis personae are the center of this review: Riad el-Solh, an activist who was in Damascus with Faysal, struggled for decades against the French Mandate and eventually assumed power in an independent Lebanon; Hisham Sharabi, a prominent secular, critical intellectual reflecting on his youthful, formative years in the late 1940s in Palestine, Lebanon and the US, including his immersion in the failed efforts overthrow the existing Arab or…
Myth, History and Realpolitik: Morocco and Its Jewish Community
This article is an analytical overview of the history of Moroccan Jewry, from pre‐Islamic times to the present day, exploring the themes of myth, memory and political interests in the multi‐faceted, continuous interactions between the community and Moroccan society as a whole. In referring to seminal developments in Moroccan political history, it analyses the different ways in which the Jews of Morocco experienced them as an integral part of the …
The Foreign Policies of Arab States: The Challenge of Globalization; and Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President
Bahgat Korany and Ali E. Hillal Dessouki (eds.) Cairo and New York, The American University in Cairo Press, 2008, Pp.x + 492, contributors, index, ISBN 978-977-416-197-I. Dar el Kutub No. 4386/08 R
Ethno-politics and globalisation in North Africa: The berber culture movement
Contemporary processes of globalisation have stimulated and reinforced a specific Berber/Amazigh ethno-political identity. Overall, the Berberist discourse is profoundly sympathetic to Western liberal-humanist values, and strongly condemnatory of the predominant monocultural order based on Islam and Arabism. To be sure, globalisation's homogenising effects are seen as a threat to indigenous peoples' cultural identities, Berbers included. But, ove…
Women, Islam, and the Moroccan State: The Struggle over the Personal Status Law
Since 1991, the status of women in Morocco has been the subject of widespread debate. Efforts by women's groups and liberal political forces to change the Shari'a -based Personal Status Code ( moudawwana ), were vigorously opposed by conservative and Islamist forces. For both sides, the issue was central to their overall orientations towards “tradition” and “modernity”. King Muhammad VI ultimately tipped the balance in favor of change. The result…
Contested identities: Berbers, 'Berberism' and the state in North Africa
The emergence of the Berber/Amazigh culture movement, in Morocco, Algeria and in the Berber diaspora poses important questions for North African regimes and societies as they enter the twenty‐first century. Moreover, it provides fertile ground for students of nationalism, collective memory and identity. The Berber experiences in Algeria and Morocco have been quite different from one another, and thus pose different sets of questions to the respec…
Middle East Monarchies: The Challenge of Modernity
A discussion of the fundamentals and performance of monarchies in the Middle East. The authors focus on four themes: the roots and characteristics of Middle East monarchies; the causes of collapse or longevity; the performance of present-day monarchies; and the problems they face.
Minorities and the State in the Arab World
A comprehensive discussion of minorities and ethnic politics in eight Arab countries, focusing on the strategic political choices made by minorities, majorities, and regimes in power
Contested identities: Berbers, 'Berberism' and the state in North Africa
The emergence of the Berber/Amazigh culture movement, in Morocco, Algeria and in the Berber diaspora poses important questions for North African regimes and societies as they enter the twenty‐first century. Moreover, it provides fertile ground for students of nationalism, collective memory and identity. The Berber experiences in Algeria and Morocco have been quite different from one another, and thus pose different sets of questions to the respec…
Ethno-politics and globalisation in North Africa: The berber culture movement
Contemporary processes of globalisation have stimulated and reinforced a specific Berber/Amazigh ethno-political identity. Overall, the Berberist discourse is profoundly sympathetic to Western liberal-humanist values, and strongly condemnatory of the predominant monocultural order based on Islam and Arabism. To be sure, globalisation's homogenising effects are seen as a threat to indigenous peoples' cultural identities, Berbers included. But, ove…
Women, Islam, and the Moroccan State: The Struggle over the Personal Status Law
Since 1991, the status of women in Morocco has been the subject of widespread debate. Efforts by women's groups and liberal political forces to change the Shari'a -based Personal Status Code ( moudawwana ), were vigorously opposed by conservative and Islamist forces. For both sides, the issue was central to their overall orientations towards “tradition” and “modernity”. King Muhammad VI ultimately tipped the balance in favor of change. The result…
Arabization and Its Discontents: The Rise of the Amazigh Movement in North Africa
The Berber-Amazigh identity movement has emerged in recent decades in North African states, demanding official recognition of linguistic and cultural rights and challenging the hegemonic narrative of history propagated by ruling elites who advocate the full Arabization of society and the reduction of Berber culture to folklore status. In recent years, the movement has gained a measure of linguistic and cultural recognition from North African stat…
Contemporary Morocco: State, politics and society under Mohammmed VI
Introduction Part I: The State and the Political System 1. Wine in Old Bottles: Political Parties under Mohammed VI James N. Sater 2. The Monarchy and Islamism in Morocco: Ritualization of the Public Discourse Mohamed Daadaoui 3. The Second Coming of Morocco's Commander of the Faithful: Mohammed VI and Morocco's Religious Policy Abdelilah Bouasria 4. The Amazigh Renaissance: Tamazight in the Time of Mohammed VI Mohammed Errihani 5. Mohammed VI an…
A turning point? The Arab Spring and the Amazigh movement
This study examines the place of the Amazigh movement and communities in the evolving political fortunes of North African states. It evaluates the prospects for attaining a genuine recognition of Amazigh ethnocultural demands as part of a broader democratic transformation of society and state, and the Amazigh movement's likely contribution to that transformation. The Amazigh movement has the potential to make alliance with governments and other s…
Myth, History and Realpolitik: Morocco and Its Jewish Community
This article is an analytical overview of the history of Moroccan Jewry, from pre‐Islamic times to the present day, exploring the themes of myth, memory and political interests in the multi‐faceted, continuous interactions between the community and Moroccan society as a whole. In referring to seminal developments in Moroccan political history, it analyses the different ways in which the Jews of Morocco experienced them as an integral part of the …
Challenging the State, Redefining the Nation: The Contemporary Amazigh Movement in Turbulent Times
This article examines the efforts of the Amazigh (Berber) identity movement during the last 7 years to redefine the content of North African states’ collective national identities, and the responses of state and other societal actors during a period of renewed political contestation. In highlighting the increasingly charged and contested political environment in North Africa, it argues that (a) the Berber-Amazigh identity movement has registered …
Historic departure or temporary marriage? The Left–Islamist alliance in Tunisia
Tunisia's “Revolution of Dignity” lit the spark for the tsunami of popular protests, the misnamed “Arab Spring” that engulfed the region in 2010–11. A central aspect of Tunisia's ongoing transition has been an alliance between the Islamist Ennahda party and two leading secular-left-of-center parties, which came together after the October 2011 Constituent Assembly elections to form a broad-based interim government until the completion of a new con…
The Islamic challenge in North Africa
This article analyzes and compares the growth of Islamist movements and regime responses in the three core Maghrib states — Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. In spite of the many points of commonality and their geographical proximity, the particular sociopolitical and historical circumstances of each of the three states have varied widely, producing a different state‐society/regime‐opposition dynamic in each case, resulting in very different politica…
Instrumentalizing Arabism: Morocco and the Inter-Arab System
The changing contours of Morocco's involvement in the inter-Arab system over nearly a century was largely instrumental. It was driven by both "realist" concerns and domestic political issues related to fundamental matters of regime legitimacy and societal cohesion, i.e. the very nature of Moroccan national identity. With the decline of Arabism's political salience, and a monarch who preferred to keep a low profile in Arab affairs, Morocco's relat…
Jordan and Iraq: Efforts at intra‐Hashimite unity
Islam and Arabism: The Iran-Iraq War
The fundamental clash between Islam and Arabism as organized cultures and allegiances provides the often neglected ideological context of the Iran-Iraq war
Jordan and Iraq: Efforts at intra‐Hashimite unity
From Jedda to Cairo: The failure of Arab mediation in the Gulf Crisis
The Islamic challenge in North Africa
This article analyzes and compares the growth of Islamist movements and regime responses in the three core Maghrib states — Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. In spite of the many points of commonality and their geographical proximity, the particular sociopolitical and historical circumstances of each of the three states have varied widely, producing a different state‐society/regime‐opposition dynamic in each case, resulting in very different politica…
Minorities and the State in the Arab World
A comprehensive discussion of minorities and ethnic politics in eight Arab countries, focusing on the strategic political choices made by minorities, majorities, and regimes in power
Middle East Monarchies: The Challenge of Modernity
A discussion of the fundamentals and performance of monarchies in the Middle East. The authors focus on four themes: the roots and characteristics of Middle East monarchies; the causes of collapse or longevity; the performance of present-day monarchies; and the problems they face.
Contested identities: Berbers, 'Berberism' and the state in North Africa
The emergence of the Berber/Amazigh culture movement, in Morocco, Algeria and in the Berber diaspora poses important questions for North African regimes and societies as they enter the twenty‐first century. Moreover, it provides fertile ground for students of nationalism, collective memory and identity. The Berber experiences in Algeria and Morocco have been quite different from one another, and thus pose different sets of questions to the respec…
Women, Islam, and the Moroccan State: The Struggle over the Personal Status Law
Since 1991, the status of women in Morocco has been the subject of widespread debate. Efforts by women's groups and liberal political forces to change the Shari'a -based Personal Status Code ( moudawwana ), were vigorously opposed by conservative and Islamist forces. For both sides, the issue was central to their overall orientations towards “tradition” and “modernity”. King Muhammad VI ultimately tipped the balance in favor of change. The result…
Ethno-politics and globalisation in North Africa: The berber culture movement
Contemporary processes of globalisation have stimulated and reinforced a specific Berber/Amazigh ethno-political identity. Overall, the Berberist discourse is profoundly sympathetic to Western liberal-humanist values, and strongly condemnatory of the predominant monocultural order based on Islam and Arabism. To be sure, globalisation's homogenising effects are seen as a threat to indigenous peoples' cultural identities, Berbers included. But, ove…
Myth, History and Realpolitik: Morocco and Its Jewish Community
This article is an analytical overview of the history of Moroccan Jewry, from pre‐Islamic times to the present day, exploring the themes of myth, memory and political interests in the multi‐faceted, continuous interactions between the community and Moroccan society as a whole. In referring to seminal developments in Moroccan political history, it analyses the different ways in which the Jews of Morocco experienced them as an integral part of the …
The Foreign Policies of Arab States: The Challenge of Globalization; and Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President
Bahgat Korany and Ali E. Hillal Dessouki (eds.) Cairo and New York, The American University in Cairo Press, 2008, Pp.x + 492, contributors, index, ISBN 978-977-416-197-I. Dar el Kutub No. 4386/08 R
Looking Back: Arab Politics During the Formative Years
Three dramatis personae are the center of this review: Riad el-Solh, an activist who was in Damascus with Faysal, struggled for decades against the French Mandate and eventually assumed power in an independent Lebanon; Hisham Sharabi, a prominent secular, critical intellectual reflecting on his youthful, formative years in the late 1940s in Palestine, Lebanon and the US, including his immersion in the failed efforts overthrow the existing Arab or…
Arabization and Its Discontents: The Rise of the Amazigh Movement in North Africa
The Berber-Amazigh identity movement has emerged in recent decades in North African states, demanding official recognition of linguistic and cultural rights and challenging the hegemonic narrative of history propagated by ruling elites who advocate the full Arabization of society and the reduction of Berber culture to folklore status. In recent years, the movement has gained a measure of linguistic and cultural recognition from North African stat…
Historic departure or temporary marriage? The Left–Islamist alliance in Tunisia
Tunisia's “Revolution of Dignity” lit the spark for the tsunami of popular protests, the misnamed “Arab Spring” that engulfed the region in 2010–11. A central aspect of Tunisia's ongoing transition has been an alliance between the Islamist Ennahda party and two leading secular-left-of-center parties, which came together after the October 2011 Constituent Assembly elections to form a broad-based interim government until the completion of a new con…
Contemporary Morocco: State, politics and society under Mohammmed VI
Introduction Part I: The State and the Political System 1. Wine in Old Bottles: Political Parties under Mohammed VI James N. Sater 2. The Monarchy and Islamism in Morocco: Ritualization of the Public Discourse Mohamed Daadaoui 3. The Second Coming of Morocco's Commander of the Faithful: Mohammed VI and Morocco's Religious Policy Abdelilah Bouasria 4. The Amazigh Renaissance: Tamazight in the Time of Mohammed VI Mohammed Errihani 5. Mohammed VI an…
Religious Radicalism in the Greater Middle East
Contemporary Review, July 1997 insightful, well-documented anthology clearly identifies the common thread and threat of religious extremism affecting the entire Middle ... reader will find much food for thought here and a welcome antidote to the all too frequent sensationalism of simplistic media coverage ... book is not only topical and up to date but embodies in its fourteen portrait studies all the fundamental elements of the cultural geograph…
Mobilised diasporas: Kurdish and Berber movements in comparative perspective
This study is a comparative analysis of the role of diaspora communities in the political and cultural activities of the Kurds and the Berbers (Amazigh) - the two most prominent cases of ethno-national “imagining” among the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region’s two main “non-dominant” ethnic groups. Berbers and Kurds, however heterogeneous and varied their multiple historical experiences, all operate within the realm of territorial nation-…
Forgotten saints: History, power, and politics in the making of modern Morocco
Sahar Bazzaz, (Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs, 41), Cambridge, MA, Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2010, 192 pp, £14.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-674-03539-3 In April 1909, soldiers of
Encountering Morocco: Fieldwork and Cultural Understanding, by David Crawford and Rachel Newcomb (eds.)
I first encountered Middle Eastern Studies in 1975, when I began my graduate studies. As I began perusing the articles between its muted green covers (there must have been approximately 40 numbers
B erbers ( A mazigh)
Berbers, from the Greek word meaning “barbarian,” are the indigenous peoples of the Maghrib (in North Africa west of the Nile Valley) and have existed in that area since the beginning of recorded history. The term is viewed as pejorative by the modern Berber identity movement and hence is increasingly being supplanted by “Amazigh” (free man). The Berbers number more than twenty million and reside primarily in Morocco and Algeria. The Berber langu…
The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda
Picturing Algeria
A turning point? The Arab Spring and the Amazigh movement
This study examines the place of the Amazigh movement and communities in the evolving political fortunes of North African states. It evaluates the prospects for attaining a genuine recognition of Amazigh ethnocultural demands as part of a broader democratic transformation of society and state, and the Amazigh movement's likely contribution to that transformation. The Amazigh movement has the potential to make alliance with governments and other s…
Insécurité à la périphérie: Les griefs socio-économiques et le mouvement amazigh au Maroc
LA SEANCE D'OUVERTURE : ( La matine du 11 octobre ). 1. Un sminaire sur le thme les Droits de l'Homme et les Droits des Peuples Autochtones la lumire de la Convention n169 de l'OIT a t organis du 10 au 14 octobre 2003 l'Ecole des Mines Rabat. Le sminaire a t organis par l'Association TAMAYNUT avec le soutien de l'Organisation Internationale du Travail (OIT). L'OIT tait reprsente par Mme Francesca Thornberry. 2. Aprs le premier sminaire rgional or…
Challenging the State, Redefining the Nation: The Contemporary Amazigh Movement in Turbulent Times
This article examines the efforts of the Amazigh (Berber) identity movement during the last 7 years to redefine the content of North African states’ collective national identities, and the responses of state and other societal actors during a period of renewed political contestation. In highlighting the increasingly charged and contested political environment in North Africa, it argues that (a) the Berber-Amazigh identity movement has registered …
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