The walled Arab city in literature, architecture and history
Subtitle: the living Medina in the Magrhib
By: edited by Susan Slyomovics.
Contributors: Slyomovics, Susan.
Series: Cass series--history and society in the Islamic world -- 3
Publisher: Frank Cass
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
Subjects: Islamic cities and towns -- Africa, North -- History; Cities and towns -- Africa, North -- History; Architecture and society -- Africa, North -- History; Sociology, Urban; Architecture, Islamic -- Africa, North; Tangier (Morocco); Tunis (Tunisia); Tlemcen (Algeria)
Other titles: Journal of North African studies. 5/4 (Winter 2000)
Notes: This group of studies first appeared in a Special Issue on 'The walled Arab city in literature, architecture and history : the living Medina in the Maghrib' of The Journal of North African Studies (ISSN 1362-9387) 5/4 (Winter 2000).

"Essays in this collection were presented at the conference 'The Living Medina: The Walled Arab City in Architecture, Literature and History', hild 26 May-7June 1996. The conference, sponsored by the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS), was convened at the Tangier American Legation Museum (TALM)...." [p.1]

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Orientalism as irony in Gérard de Nerval's Voyage en Orient / James E. Housefield; title: Watering the garden of Tangier : colonial contestations in a Moroccan city / Susan Gilson Miller; title: The social context of working equines in the urban Middle East : the example of Fez Medina / Diana K. Davis and Denys Frappier; title: The role of the Medinas in the reconstruction of Algerian culture and identity / Djilali Sari; title: Geographies of Jewish Tlemcen / Susan Slyomovics; title: Neighbourhood notes : texture and streetscape in the Médina of Tunis / Justin McGuinness; title: Preservation and self-absorption : Italian colonisation and the walled city of Tripoli, Libya / Mia Fuller.