Lhoussain Simour
Biographic Data
| ID | 529173 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lhoussain Simour |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lhoussain |
| FAMILY NAME | Simour |
| SIGNATURE | SIMOUR L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4315-5718 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Drifts of difference: Moroccan roots, European routes and the reconstruction of the migration dream in ṭalyān
The Role of Film Festivals in Promoting Social Justice: Authorship, Disruption, and Innovation at the CineMigrante Film Festival (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
This paper revolves around Migration Film Festivals as a rich and interdisciplinary fertile subject of inquiry and analysis at an international scale. Its primary aim is to conduct an in-depth analysis of CineMigrante, Festival de Cine y Formación en Derechos Humanos (CineMigrante, Film Festival and Training in Human Rights), held in Buenos Aires (Argentina) since 2010. It serves as an invaluable case study for the understanding of the significan…
Towards the consolidation of the migration film festivals’ social functions: Strengthening cultural awareness and fostering social transformation
This article revolves around fourteen main migration film festivals (MFFs) worldwide, exploring them as an interdisciplinary fertile subject of inquiry and analysis, with a particular emphasis on their social functions. The specific objectives aim at understanding the principles, values, circumstances and dynamics that permeate these cultural events. We assume that MFFs can serve as genuine catalysts of critical reflection and social transformati…
Moroccan subaltern voices narrated: The historical imaginary of race and the legacy of slavery in Rabbaj'sLe Lutteur[The Wrestler] and El Hachimi'sDhākirat al-narjis[The Daffodil's Memory]
Nation in Moroccan historiography writings has traditionally been described as culturally, ethnically and racially homogeneous; an all-encompassing discourse that silences episodes about the historical legacy of slavery and racism in the country, and undermines multicultural Morocco. In fact, the history of Morocco's blacks of sub-Saharan descent remains fragmented, scattered and undocumented - partly because of the scarcity of archival sources. …
The Postcolonial Malaise in Narration: The Construction of Narrative Writing in Mohamed Zafzaf’s Arṣifah Wa Judrān (Sidewalks and Walls)
Arṣifah Wa Judrān (Sidewalks and Walls) is associated with some of the aspects inherent in the postcolonial social and cultural transformations that Morocco had witnessed due to the illusive narrative of independence. Lack of political stability, repression, stagnation, and social disparities created helpless and alienated individuals torn between the utopian impulse for a better way of being and the forceful neocolonial crippling situation of ab…
A tongue tells a thousand truths: Narration, translation and illustration in Mohamed Mrabet'sChocolate Creams and Dollars
This study attempts to explore one of the less-studied works in Paul Bowles-Mohamed Mrabet's intellectual and translational collaborations, Chocolate Creams and Dollars, a semi-autobiographical novel illustrated by Philip Taaffe's photographs and found objects. The story presents Driss, a young Moroccan entangled within the shifts and twists of encounter with Westerners in a Northern Moroccan coastal city. By virtue of the three different interve…
The other history of cultural encounters through performance revisited: Shifting discourses on Moroccan acrobatic entertainers in nineteenth-century America
This paper attempts to re-examine Moroccan non-canonical voices, their forgotten experiences and their itineraries beyond borders. It aims to uncover cultural discourses pertaining to early cultural and artistic interactions through acrobatic performances between Morocco and the West, namely America. In fact, less attention has been given to the presence of Moroccan entertainers beyond borders in the archives of history as Moroccan historians and…
Shahrazād in transatlantic journeys: Moorish dancing entertainers beyond borders (1850–1912)
The routes of travel started from the margins of the empire towards metropolitan centres of nineteenth-century Europe and America included Moroccan women travellers as acrobats and dancing professional artists. They crossed the straits of Gibraltar and journeyed through the Atlantic to visit western countries. Moroccan women travellers took part in various Euro-American theatre performances and in circus shows as early as 1850 according to newspa…
(Re)Locating space in Hakim Belabbas’s khayṭ al-rūḥ and Farida Belyazid’s bāb smā maftūḥ
This article is a re-reading of both Hakim Belabbas’s khayṭ al-rūḥ and Farida Belyazid’s bāb smā maftūḥ from a postcolonially inflected concern. It attempts to consider how khayṭ al-rūḥ (‘Threads’, 2003), and bāb smā maftūḥ (‘A Door to the Sky’, 1988), focus excessively on the aesthetics and poetics of the city space, respectively, Abū al-ja’d and Fez, as a powerful structuring force that is twistingly manipulated to become a homogenizing icon of…
Blurring the Boundaries of Gendered Encounters: Moorish Dancing Girls in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century American Fair Exhibitions
Moroccan dancing women appeared as entertainers in 19th and 20th-century American fair expositions. Their physical and epistemological journeys and their performances on the fair midways have been largely missing from the histories of the Moroccan and American entertainment industries. Their experiences and narratives overseas are stimulating and worth recovering, because they offer suitable settings in which to engage with the complexities of cu…
American Fair Expositions Revisited: Morocco’s Acrobatic Performers between the Industry of Entertainment and the Violence of Racial Display
When and why did Moroccan acrobats intervene in the American entertainment show business? Who were these subjects and how did they negotiate their collective identities and individual agencies within the exhibition apparatus? This article discusses the early experience of Moroccan acrobats in American amusement industry and raises issues pertaining to representing cultural otherness through acrobatic performances incorporated in various American …
(De)slaving history: Mostafa al-Azemmouri, the sixteenth-century Moroccan captive in the tale of conquest
This article attempts to revisit one of the most spectacular odysseys in Moroccan-American history, that of the encounters started from the shores of a Moorish town in the sixteenth century by Mostafa Al-Azemmouri, the Moroccan captive and adventurer. Al-Azemmouri was captured by the Portuguese, sold in Spain and then shipped across the Atlantic to the New World around 1527. His narrative has consistently been displaced and subjected to various f…
Postcolonial Fluid Zones of Possibilities in Mohammed Mrabet's Look and Move On: Retrieving Subalternity and Negotiating Sexuality
The sexually enthralling Other: Oriental weddings in performance and American erotics of the Brown Threat
International expositions held in America at the turn of the century developed discourses on ethnological living exhibits. These discourses were reinforced by an array of Orientalist images which stemmed mainly from a history including the fascination with the exotic and sensual Other. The artistic encounter of Moroccan acrobats with American audiences was also gendered. Entertainment newspapers and magazines did not only offer entries into Orien…
The Postcolonial in Motion: Hijra ila ardi al-ahlam and the Construction of Postcolonial Counterdiscourse
This paper examines the poetics and politics of representing cultural otherness in Sellam Chahidi's travel-inspired narrative Hijra ila ardi al-ahlam. Since Western cultural encounters have developed an overall epistemological outline in which Moroccan cultural identities are framed and often preconditioned to express western perspectives, Chahidi's narrative foregrounds new ways whereby the existing paradigm of interpretation and power relations…
The White Lady Travels: Narrating Fez and Spacing Colonial Authority in Edith Wharton's In Morocco
Foregrounding Orientalism as a system of thought that has produced constructed images and disfigured discourses about Europe's Other, this paper is primarily concerned with the practice of delineating landscape and manipulating the space of Fez in Edith Wharton's In Morocco. It starts with a rereading of Edward Said's model of analysis and then moves to an investigation into how this travel narrative displays, vulgarizes, and reproduces one of th…
Moroccan subaltern voices narrated: The historical imaginary of race and the legacy of slavery in Rabbaj'sLe Lutteur[The Wrestler] and El Hachimi'sDhākirat al-narjis[The Daffodil's Memory]
Nation in Moroccan historiography writings has traditionally been described as culturally, ethnically and racially homogeneous; an all-encompassing discourse that silences episodes about the historical legacy of slavery and racism in the country, and undermines multicultural Morocco. In fact, the history of Morocco's blacks of sub-Saharan descent remains fragmented, scattered and undocumented - partly because of the scarcity of archival sources. …
The sexually enthralling Other: Oriental weddings in performance and American erotics of the Brown Threat
International expositions held in America at the turn of the century developed discourses on ethnological living exhibits. These discourses were reinforced by an array of Orientalist images which stemmed mainly from a history including the fascination with the exotic and sensual Other. The artistic encounter of Moroccan acrobats with American audiences was also gendered. Entertainment newspapers and magazines did not only offer entries into Orien…
The White Lady Travels: Narrating Fez and Spacing Colonial Authority in Edith Wharton's In Morocco
Foregrounding Orientalism as a system of thought that has produced constructed images and disfigured discourses about Europe's Other, this paper is primarily concerned with the practice of delineating landscape and manipulating the space of Fez in Edith Wharton's In Morocco. It starts with a rereading of Edward Said's model of analysis and then moves to an investigation into how this travel narrative displays, vulgarizes, and reproduces one of th…
Blurring the Boundaries of Gendered Encounters: Moorish Dancing Girls in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century American Fair Exhibitions
Moroccan dancing women appeared as entertainers in 19th and 20th-century American fair expositions. Their physical and epistemological journeys and their performances on the fair midways have been largely missing from the histories of the Moroccan and American entertainment industries. Their experiences and narratives overseas are stimulating and worth recovering, because they offer suitable settings in which to engage with the complexities of cu…
(De)slaving history: Mostafa al-Azemmouri, the sixteenth-century Moroccan captive in the tale of conquest
This article attempts to revisit one of the most spectacular odysseys in Moroccan-American history, that of the encounters started from the shores of a Moorish town in the sixteenth century by Mostafa Al-Azemmouri, the Moroccan captive and adventurer. Al-Azemmouri was captured by the Portuguese, sold in Spain and then shipped across the Atlantic to the New World around 1527. His narrative has consistently been displaced and subjected to various f…
Postcolonial Fluid Zones of Possibilities in Mohammed Mrabet's Look and Move On: Retrieving Subalternity and Negotiating Sexuality
The White Lady Travels: Narrating Fez and Spacing Colonial Authority in Edith Wharton's In Morocco
Foregrounding Orientalism as a system of thought that has produced constructed images and disfigured discourses about Europe's Other, this paper is primarily concerned with the practice of delineating landscape and manipulating the space of Fez in Edith Wharton's In Morocco. It starts with a rereading of Edward Said's model of analysis and then moves to an investigation into how this travel narrative displays, vulgarizes, and reproduces one of th…
The Postcolonial in Motion: Hijra ila ardi al-ahlam and the Construction of Postcolonial Counterdiscourse
This paper examines the poetics and politics of representing cultural otherness in Sellam Chahidi's travel-inspired narrative Hijra ila ardi al-ahlam. Since Western cultural encounters have developed an overall epistemological outline in which Moroccan cultural identities are framed and often preconditioned to express western perspectives, Chahidi's narrative foregrounds new ways whereby the existing paradigm of interpretation and power relations…
Postcolonial Fluid Zones of Possibilities in Mohammed Mrabet's Look and Move On: Retrieving Subalternity and Negotiating Sexuality
The sexually enthralling Other: Oriental weddings in performance and American erotics of the Brown Threat
International expositions held in America at the turn of the century developed discourses on ethnological living exhibits. These discourses were reinforced by an array of Orientalist images which stemmed mainly from a history including the fascination with the exotic and sensual Other. The artistic encounter of Moroccan acrobats with American audiences was also gendered. Entertainment newspapers and magazines did not only offer entries into Orien…
American Fair Expositions Revisited: Morocco’s Acrobatic Performers between the Industry of Entertainment and the Violence of Racial Display
When and why did Moroccan acrobats intervene in the American entertainment show business? Who were these subjects and how did they negotiate their collective identities and individual agencies within the exhibition apparatus? This article discusses the early experience of Moroccan acrobats in American amusement industry and raises issues pertaining to representing cultural otherness through acrobatic performances incorporated in various American …
(De)slaving history: Mostafa al-Azemmouri, the sixteenth-century Moroccan captive in the tale of conquest
This article attempts to revisit one of the most spectacular odysseys in Moroccan-American history, that of the encounters started from the shores of a Moorish town in the sixteenth century by Mostafa Al-Azemmouri, the Moroccan captive and adventurer. Al-Azemmouri was captured by the Portuguese, sold in Spain and then shipped across the Atlantic to the New World around 1527. His narrative has consistently been displaced and subjected to various f…
Blurring the Boundaries of Gendered Encounters: Moorish Dancing Girls in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century American Fair Exhibitions
Moroccan dancing women appeared as entertainers in 19th and 20th-century American fair expositions. Their physical and epistemological journeys and their performances on the fair midways have been largely missing from the histories of the Moroccan and American entertainment industries. Their experiences and narratives overseas are stimulating and worth recovering, because they offer suitable settings in which to engage with the complexities of cu…
(Re)Locating space in Hakim Belabbas’s khayṭ al-rūḥ and Farida Belyazid’s bāb smā maftūḥ
This article is a re-reading of both Hakim Belabbas’s khayṭ al-rūḥ and Farida Belyazid’s bāb smā maftūḥ from a postcolonially inflected concern. It attempts to consider how khayṭ al-rūḥ (‘Threads’, 2003), and bāb smā maftūḥ (‘A Door to the Sky’, 1988), focus excessively on the aesthetics and poetics of the city space, respectively, Abū al-ja’d and Fez, as a powerful structuring force that is twistingly manipulated to become a homogenizing icon of…
Shahrazād in transatlantic journeys: Moorish dancing entertainers beyond borders (1850–1912)
The routes of travel started from the margins of the empire towards metropolitan centres of nineteenth-century Europe and America included Moroccan women travellers as acrobats and dancing professional artists. They crossed the straits of Gibraltar and journeyed through the Atlantic to visit western countries. Moroccan women travellers took part in various Euro-American theatre performances and in circus shows as early as 1850 according to newspa…
The other history of cultural encounters through performance revisited: Shifting discourses on Moroccan acrobatic entertainers in nineteenth-century America
This paper attempts to re-examine Moroccan non-canonical voices, their forgotten experiences and their itineraries beyond borders. It aims to uncover cultural discourses pertaining to early cultural and artistic interactions through acrobatic performances between Morocco and the West, namely America. In fact, less attention has been given to the presence of Moroccan entertainers beyond borders in the archives of history as Moroccan historians and…
The Postcolonial Malaise in Narration: The Construction of Narrative Writing in Mohamed Zafzaf’s Arṣifah Wa Judrān (Sidewalks and Walls)
Arṣifah Wa Judrān (Sidewalks and Walls) is associated with some of the aspects inherent in the postcolonial social and cultural transformations that Morocco had witnessed due to the illusive narrative of independence. Lack of political stability, repression, stagnation, and social disparities created helpless and alienated individuals torn between the utopian impulse for a better way of being and the forceful neocolonial crippling situation of ab…
A tongue tells a thousand truths: Narration, translation and illustration in Mohamed Mrabet'sChocolate Creams and Dollars
This study attempts to explore one of the less-studied works in Paul Bowles-Mohamed Mrabet's intellectual and translational collaborations, Chocolate Creams and Dollars, a semi-autobiographical novel illustrated by Philip Taaffe's photographs and found objects. The story presents Driss, a young Moroccan entangled within the shifts and twists of encounter with Westerners in a Northern Moroccan coastal city. By virtue of the three different interve…
Moroccan subaltern voices narrated: The historical imaginary of race and the legacy of slavery in Rabbaj'sLe Lutteur[The Wrestler] and El Hachimi'sDhākirat al-narjis[The Daffodil's Memory]
Nation in Moroccan historiography writings has traditionally been described as culturally, ethnically and racially homogeneous; an all-encompassing discourse that silences episodes about the historical legacy of slavery and racism in the country, and undermines multicultural Morocco. In fact, the history of Morocco's blacks of sub-Saharan descent remains fragmented, scattered and undocumented - partly because of the scarcity of archival sources. …
The Role of Film Festivals in Promoting Social Justice: Authorship, Disruption, and Innovation at the CineMigrante Film Festival (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
This paper revolves around Migration Film Festivals as a rich and interdisciplinary fertile subject of inquiry and analysis at an international scale. Its primary aim is to conduct an in-depth analysis of CineMigrante, Festival de Cine y Formación en Derechos Humanos (CineMigrante, Film Festival and Training in Human Rights), held in Buenos Aires (Argentina) since 2010. It serves as an invaluable case study for the understanding of the significan…
Towards the consolidation of the migration film festivals’ social functions: Strengthening cultural awareness and fostering social transformation
This article revolves around fourteen main migration film festivals (MFFs) worldwide, exploring them as an interdisciplinary fertile subject of inquiry and analysis, with a particular emphasis on their social functions. The specific objectives aim at understanding the principles, values, circumstances and dynamics that permeate these cultural events. We assume that MFFs can serve as genuine catalysts of critical reflection and social transformati…
Drifts of difference: Moroccan roots, European routes and the reconstruction of the migration dream in ṭalyān
Art (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Literature (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · History (9 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Narrative (7 works) · Orientalism (7 works)