...Ariel M. Sheetrit Abstract This article presents an analysis of the Moroccan writer Leila Abouzeid’s Rujuʿ ila al-tufula ( 1993 ; Return to Childhood: The Memoir of a Modern Moroccan Woman , 1998) through the prism of relational theories of autobiography. It exposes narrative strategies of voice...

...Susan Slyomovics Fatna El Bouih stands as a well-known Moroccan activist whose life embraces a remarkable trajectory and a wide array of roles: former political prisoner, writer, academically trained sociologist, witness, individual claimant for truth commission reparations, and, most recently...

... in postcolonial Morocco, addresses Moroccans, and focuses on class exploitation and neocolonialism. Dreams , in contrast, is an autobiography first published in English almost three decades after Tomorrow ; it addresses a Western audience and examines Mernissi’s childhood experience of extreme gender...

... Moulay Cherif, Casablanca’s secret detention center, especially a trial for the head of operations, Youssfi Kaddour, considered responsible for their deaths (Moussadak 1999:np). Although the Moroccan state has imprisoned tens of thousands of dissidents and political opponents...

...Bettina Dennerlein This paper focuses on competing appropriations of international women’s rights standards in the framework of the Moroccan Equity and Reconciliation Commission (ERC) and its follow-up projects. I argue that, even if the ERC’s gender approach has been introduced as part...

... the experience of writing about their lives, and how their audiences receive such efforts. The Moroccan author Leila Abouzeid ( 2003 : 158), for example, has argued that it was harder for her to write autobiography as an Arab woman, because “uncovering one’s private life is considered bold and indecent in Arab...

... Chinese women doctors working in Algeria and Morocco and their local patients and nurses. These tensions are related to the conflicting childbearing ideologies between the Chinese one-child policy and Algerian and Moroccan pronatalism. The articles in this issue draw on a wide range of sources...

... the socialist state was encouraging all citizens into the national workforce, Bint al-Shati’ wrote a series of books on the lives of “women of the Prophet” pre- sented as paragons of virtue and active involvement in the community. A few decades later, Moroccan sociologist Fatima Mernissi...