A seasoned expert on the Maghreb offers a fine-grained analysis of the region's politics in a time of upheaval.

North Africa differs from the Middle East in several significant ways. It was subject to a uniform colonial experience as part of the French empire; its populat

Examines how French colonial modernity invented the concept of the Maghreb, making it distinct from Africa and the Middle East.

"Rarely is a collection of essays as coherent and of such uniformly high quality as is this one. This book makes a major contribution to our efforts to understa