num_pages: 288
description: Situated on Europes threshold the Maghribs core states--Morocco Algeria and Tunisia--are confronted by many of the same dire political social and economic circumstances as the Arab and other Muslim countries farther east. However these countries are often overlooked during debates over the future of the Middle East even though their political and social systems appear more ripe for the kind of partnership envisaged by Western policy-makers than others in the region. This volume features a topical focus on Islamic movements an emphasis on the importance of the Berber dimension of contemporary North African society and politics and the inclusion of a crucial transnational perspective stressing the Maghrib's ties to Europe. All of this is set against a backdrop of larger questions of history memory and national identity at the dawn of a new century.
language: English
title: The Maghrib in the New Century: Identity, Religion, and Politics
publisher: University Press of Florida