...Jillali El Adnani Duke University Press 2007 Regionalism, Islamism, and Amazigh Identity: Translocality in the Sûs Region of Morocco according to Muhammed Mukhtar Soussi Jillali El Adnani he Sûs region at the center of this article has been marked by the passage of...

... complication for Tunisia (and Algeria) was the specificity of North African religions, with large arrays of Muslims (divided between Arab and Berber/Amazigh in Algeria) and Jews coexisting with Christians, of whom the vast majority were European settlers. All this facilitated the classical colonial rule of...

... Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 23:1&2 (2003) ginalization and even to the suppression of regional In the period after independence the continued use of languages: the chair in Amazigh studies at the University French in certain sectors of economic, political, and of Algiers was...

... women’s colonization was organized by rural Amazigh liberation was legitimated within Islam and by (Berber) women in the area known as Khemis- a particular understanding of religion after set; it took place only one year after the protec- independence.52...

... old. Among took place not only in Arab countries but, addi- the women I interviewed were some who had been tionally, in countries whose populations are a mix- arrested in 1987 near the end of Bourguiba’s rule ture of Amazigh and Arab peoples who prefer, for and who were pardoned when Benali...