...Suzanne Gauch Relating the trajectory of a young Franco-Moroccan woman who returns to her native city of Fez and embraces a mystical form of Islam, Farida Benlyazid's 1988 feature film A Door to the Sky has become a mainstay at international women's film festivals and in classes on gender...

... photographic representations of Moroccan men and women taken by a French psychiatrist-G. G. de Clerambault-at the height of the French colonialist period. Clerambault is famous -to those to whom he is famous-for his concept of mental automatism, and it was by focussing...

... traditional linkage of masculinity and control over the voice notwith- standing. In Samia Mehrez’s work on the Moroccan writer Abdelkebir Khatibi, bilingualism is read not only as a thematic preoccupation, but also as an enunciative practice; the language of Khatibi’s text...

... are realized on film. Most Arab women who make 35mm narrative feature films, such as the Moroccan Farida Ben Lyazid, the Tunisian Nadia Fares, and the Lebanese Randa Chahal Sabbagh, trained and work over- seas. But for the most part, few people in Arab countries have access to the technology, training...

..., Tunisian, and Moroccan men to rebuild France’s postwar infrastructure and urban centers dis- rupted the network of interdependent familial relations among regional populations in a manner now inviting critical evaluation Aural Topographies of Migration  •  97...

...-­Woman in Transnational Moroccan Filmmaking,” in Transnational Feminism in Film and Media, ed. Katarzyna Marciniak, Anikó Imre, and Aine O’Healy (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), 88. 9. Rebecca Prime, “Stranger Than Fiction: Genre and Hybridity in the ‘Refugee Film...

... strong ideological commitments alongside an awareness of the discursive nature of both discourses. In this light, it is interesting to note that Shohat identifies a post –Third Worldist sentiment at work in another Arab woman filmmaker’s project, the Moroccan Farida Ben Lyazid’s A Door...

.... Amos Gitai, Israel/France/UK, 2004). In The Highway Queen, for instance, the representation of the Miz- rahi prostitute is guided by patriarchal Orientalist norms. The film portrays the victimization of a  Jewish Moroccan prostitute from Tel Aviv at the hands of Mizrahi men and her subsequent...

... maintained another reputation quite unknown to the stream of Moroccan women who pass through its rooms. Dr. Burou is being visited by journalist James Morris. Morris fidgets in an anteroom reading Elk and Paris-Match with something less than full attention, because he is on an errand of immense...