Les sindbads marocains
Subtitle: voyage dans le Maroc civique
By: Fatema Mernissi
Publisher: Marsam
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Rabat
Language: fre; ara
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Youth; History; Conduct of life; Political activity
Description: In her most recent work, Les Sindbads marocains: voyage dans le Maroc civique, Mernissi invites her readers to move in a different direction, to undertake a very unique sort of promenade in her homeland. She tells us that we should not be content simply to sojourn in regions that we think we know well, whether through extensive coverage in the mass media (typically linked to the question of terrorism), or through brief visits to destinations that purposefully fashion themselves to entice Western tourists. Instead, she encourages us to undertake a different voyage, resembling a quest for self-discovery through a perpetual openness to the "other," to the stranger [...] Moroccan Sinbads manages simultaneously to be a remarkable tourist guide and a highly intelligent sociological survey of the Moroccan people, be they intellectuals or peasants, urban or rural dwellers, militant civil rights activists or innovative artists. We find ourselves transported into the suburbs of Casablanca and Tangiers, to the mountain of the Rif, and the Medina of Rabat. In her own manner Mernissi exalts the "forgotten ones" of modernity, the social rejects, the outcasts who live on the margins, and who sometimes are actually able to appropriate modernity for their own benefit. -- Review by Benjamin Stora in http://www.univ-paris13.fr (April 17, 2013).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-187).

Text in French with some Arabic.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : George Orwell à Marrakech en 1938; title: - Chapitre 1. Le prince espagnol, les sardines et moi; title: - Chapitre 2. Hmidou, les espagnols et Qacem Amin; title: Partie I. Satellite et confiance en soi : avec lʹinternet les jeunes naviguent sur place. Chapitre 3 - Ali Amahane, le Sindbad Amazigh; title: - Chapitre 4 - Le Marrakech de Jamila; title: - Chapitre 5 - Marrakech vire au virtuel : Sauvons les serpents; title: Partie II. Tapis et mythes : lʹenigme des femmes qui tissent et des hommes qui naviguest. Chapitre 6. Delacroix et Matisse envoûtés par les tapis; title: - Chapitre 7. Ulysse serait toujours à Tanger; title: - Chapitre 8 - Les Pénélopes marocaines; title: - Chapitre 9 - Fatema Mella : lʹittetrée qui tisse le tifinagh; title: - Chapitre 10 - Cherchez Venus dans votre tapis; title: - Chapitre 11 - Baya éblouit Picasso et Chaïbia l'illettrée gagne des millions; title: - Chapitre 12 - Au Royaume des tisseuses peintres; title: - Chapitre 13 - Essaouira, capitale du civisme; title: Partie III. Les Cosmocivismes attaquent ! Zagora, paradis des femmes, des gazelles et des oiseaux. Chapitre 14 - Le mystère du miroir du Souk d'Agdz; title: - Chapitre 15 - Zagora ensorcelée par les cosmociviques; title: - Chapitre 16 - La Caravane Civique; title: Conclusion : L a Caravane civique invitée en Europe.