Jamal Bahmad
Biographic Data
| ID | 1448936 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jamal Bahmad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jamal |
| FAMILY NAME | Bahmad |
| SIGNATURE | BAHMAD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stirling |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0033-2390 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Moroccan Cultural Studies
This article presents a critical examination of the challenges associated with grounding Moroccan cultural studies ( MCS ) in Moroccan academia. Drawing on their diverse experiences as teachers and researchers, the authors examine the institutional and epistemological constraints that underlie the historical marginalization of cultural studies within the Moroccan university system. These constraints range from Eurocentric curricula, a bureaucrati…
Words from the Tiger’s Mouth
Mainstreaming Homeland Voices
From Page to Stage Epiphanies
Dans la soirée du 16 mai 2003, 14 kamikazes ont fait sauter différents sites à Casablanca, tuant 43 victimes. Ces attaques terroristes étaient les premières du genre dans le Maroc contemporain et ont envoyé des ondes de choc à travers le pays. L’écrivain marocain Mahi Binebine a publié un roman sur les événements en 2010. Sa version initiale, intitulée Les Etoiles de Sidi Moumen, a été publiée en France et a été acclamée par la critique tant au M…
Moroccan Cinema Uncut
Assesses Moroccan cinema through a transnational lens to reframe its postcolonial legacy Based on interviews with key industry figures and filmmakers Case studies include the controversial Much Loved , and an analysis of its reception within and outwith Morocco Argues that Moroccan cinema has de-orbited from Francophone cinema and Morocco's postcolonial legacy to become a transnational cinema Watch the editors discuss the book in a webinar hosted…
Transnational Hauntings
This article looks at social inequality in Morocco to show how the specter of radical Islam has come to haunt this society in the era of neoliberal globalization. This argument will be illustrated through a close analysis of Laila Marrakchi's Marock (2005). This transnational Moroccan film depicts existential insecurity among upper-class youth isolated by wealth and its idioms in gated communities in Casablanca's suburbs. It also inadvertently un…
The Good Pirates
This chapter argues against the grain of the pessimism characterizing the dominant discourse about the future of Moroccan cinema. Cinema closures and the prevalence of online and offline piracy are not life-threatening to Moroccan cinema. Instead, they are indicators of how this North African cinema has been adapting to the challenges of globalization and the digital revolution. Moroccan films are increasingly watched at home or on mobile devices…
Crowds and Politics in North Africa
Mapping Moroccan neoliberalism
Faced with a severe economic crisis and simmering social unrest in the early 1980s, Morocco embarked on a comprehensive IMF-designed programme of socioeconomic structural adjustment. Over the next decades, neoliberal market reforms ushered in new forms of spatial development and social relations in Moroccan cities. In the cultural field, a popular cinema was born in the early 1990s. What I call the New Urban Cinema (NUC) screened the complex stru…
From Slavery to the Screen
In recent years, there has been a remarkable growth in both global interest and academic research on migration in the Mediterranean region. The debates have been dominated by security questions and the increasing fortification of passageways into the global North. In the meantime, southern Mediterranean countries like Morocco have seen a rapid transformation from transit migration zones to destination countries on the edge of Fortress Europe. How…
The age of new waves
In this authoritative volume, James Tweedie sets out to reveal why new film waves have ‘a global reach that rivals the geographic range and ambition of Hollywood’ (1). Tracing the origins of this g
Rebels with a cause
Moroccan filmmakers have chronicled social change and youth's quest for postcolonial agency since the early 1990s. This article examines the representation of Moroccan youth on screen through a close analysis of two recent films on the alternative cultural scene in Casablanca at the turn of the twenty-first century. I will explore how Farida Benlyazid and Abderrahim Mettour's documentary Casanayda! (2007) and Ahmed Boulane's feature film The Sata…
From Casablanca to Casanegra
This article deals with the two major actors in North Africa’s 2011 uprisings—namely, youth and the city—through a critical exploration of the cinematic realism that has defined Moroccan filmmakers’ response to the country’s socioeconomic transformation under neoliberal globalization since the 1980s. Taking Noureddine Lakhmari’s Casanegra (2008) as a case study, I argue that this aesthetic frame discloses the critical potential of everyday life a…
Tarik Sabry,Cultural encounters
From Casablanca to Casanegra
This article deals with the two major actors in North Africa’s 2011 uprisings—namely, youth and the city—through a critical exploration of the cinematic realism that has defined Moroccan filmmakers’ response to the country’s socioeconomic transformation under neoliberal globalization since the 1980s. Taking Noureddine Lakhmari’s Casanegra (2008) as a case study, I argue that this aesthetic frame discloses the critical potential of everyday life a…
Moroccan Cinema Uncut
Assesses Moroccan cinema through a transnational lens to reframe its postcolonial legacy Based on interviews with key industry figures and filmmakers Case studies include the controversial Much Loved , and an analysis of its reception within and outwith Morocco Argues that Moroccan cinema has de-orbited from Francophone cinema and Morocco's postcolonial legacy to become a transnational cinema Watch the editors discuss the book in a webinar hosted…
Rebels with a cause
Moroccan filmmakers have chronicled social change and youth's quest for postcolonial agency since the early 1990s. This article examines the representation of Moroccan youth on screen through a close analysis of two recent films on the alternative cultural scene in Casablanca at the turn of the twenty-first century. I will explore how Farida Benlyazid and Abderrahim Mettour's documentary Casanayda! (2007) and Ahmed Boulane's feature film The Sata…
Tarik Sabry,Cultural encounters
From Casablanca to Casanegra
This article deals with the two major actors in North Africa’s 2011 uprisings—namely, youth and the city—through a critical exploration of the cinematic realism that has defined Moroccan filmmakers’ response to the country’s socioeconomic transformation under neoliberal globalization since the 1980s. Taking Noureddine Lakhmari’s Casanegra (2008) as a case study, I argue that this aesthetic frame discloses the critical potential of everyday life a…
Rebels with a cause
Moroccan filmmakers have chronicled social change and youth's quest for postcolonial agency since the early 1990s. This article examines the representation of Moroccan youth on screen through a close analysis of two recent films on the alternative cultural scene in Casablanca at the turn of the twenty-first century. I will explore how Farida Benlyazid and Abderrahim Mettour's documentary Casanayda! (2007) and Ahmed Boulane's feature film The Sata…
From Slavery to the Screen
In recent years, there has been a remarkable growth in both global interest and academic research on migration in the Mediterranean region. The debates have been dominated by security questions and the increasing fortification of passageways into the global North. In the meantime, southern Mediterranean countries like Morocco have seen a rapid transformation from transit migration zones to destination countries on the edge of Fortress Europe. How…
The age of new waves
In this authoritative volume, James Tweedie sets out to reveal why new film waves have ‘a global reach that rivals the geographic range and ambition of Hollywood’ (1). Tracing the origins of this g
The Good Pirates
This chapter argues against the grain of the pessimism characterizing the dominant discourse about the future of Moroccan cinema. Cinema closures and the prevalence of online and offline piracy are not life-threatening to Moroccan cinema. Instead, they are indicators of how this North African cinema has been adapting to the challenges of globalization and the digital revolution. Moroccan films are increasingly watched at home or on mobile devices…
Crowds and Politics in North Africa
Mapping Moroccan neoliberalism
Faced with a severe economic crisis and simmering social unrest in the early 1980s, Morocco embarked on a comprehensive IMF-designed programme of socioeconomic structural adjustment. Over the next decades, neoliberal market reforms ushered in new forms of spatial development and social relations in Moroccan cities. In the cultural field, a popular cinema was born in the early 1990s. What I call the New Urban Cinema (NUC) screened the complex stru…
Transnational Hauntings
This article looks at social inequality in Morocco to show how the specter of radical Islam has come to haunt this society in the era of neoliberal globalization. This argument will be illustrated through a close analysis of Laila Marrakchi's Marock (2005). This transnational Moroccan film depicts existential insecurity among upper-class youth isolated by wealth and its idioms in gated communities in Casablanca's suburbs. It also inadvertently un…
Moroccan Cinema Uncut
Assesses Moroccan cinema through a transnational lens to reframe its postcolonial legacy Based on interviews with key industry figures and filmmakers Case studies include the controversial Much Loved , and an analysis of its reception within and outwith Morocco Argues that Moroccan cinema has de-orbited from Francophone cinema and Morocco's postcolonial legacy to become a transnational cinema Watch the editors discuss the book in a webinar hosted…
Words from the Tiger’s Mouth
Mainstreaming Homeland Voices
From Page to Stage Epiphanies
Dans la soirée du 16 mai 2003, 14 kamikazes ont fait sauter différents sites à Casablanca, tuant 43 victimes. Ces attaques terroristes étaient les premières du genre dans le Maroc contemporain et ont envoyé des ondes de choc à travers le pays. L’écrivain marocain Mahi Binebine a publié un roman sur les événements en 2010. Sa version initiale, intitulée Les Etoiles de Sidi Moumen, a été publiée en France et a été acclamée par la critique tant au M…
Moroccan Cultural Studies
This article presents a critical examination of the challenges associated with grounding Moroccan cultural studies ( MCS ) in Moroccan academia. Drawing on their diverse experiences as teachers and researchers, the authors examine the institutional and epistemological constraints that underlie the historical marginalization of cultural studies within the Moroccan university system. These constraints range from Eurocentric curricula, a bureaucrati…
Political science (10 works) · Art (8 works) · History (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Art history (7 works) · Movie theater (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · African history and culture studies (6 works) · Law (6 works)