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tajine
by ottomanhistorypodcast.com
a website and bi-weekly podcast for students and scholars of North Africa
Episodes
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Nationality on Trial in the 19th Century Mediterranean
with Jessica Marglin hosted by Brittany White | In 1873, Nissim Shamama died suddenly at his palazzo in Livorno. He was quietly one of the richest men in the Mediterranean. A Tunisian Jew born in the Ottoman Empire, Shamama had taken his place among the mercantile elite of a newly-unified Italy.…
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The Natural Sciences in Early Modern Morocco
with Justin Stearns hosted by Shireen Hamza and Taylor Moore | When you think of the history of science, what people and places come to mind? Scientific knowledge production flourished in early modern Morocco, and not in the places you might expect. This episode transports us into the…
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Muslim Sicily and Its Legacies
Episode 452 with William Granara hosted by Chris Gratien During the 9th century, Arab armies from North Africa conquered Sicily, leading to four centuries of Muslim history on the island, which is now part of Italy. Sicily during that period has often been portrayed as an interfaith utopia where...
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The Mediterranean in the Age of Global Piracy
Episode 446 featuring Emrah Safa Gürkan, Joshua White, and Daniel Hershenzon narrated by Chris Gratien with contributions by Nir Shafir, Taylor Moore, Susanna Ferguson, and Zoe Griffith Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Piracy is often depicted as a facet of the wild,...
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France & Algeria: Origins and Legacies
Episode 409 with Jennifer Sessions hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In 1827, Hussein Dey, the Ottoman governor of Algiers, hit a French consul on the nose with a fly whisk during a dispute over unpaid French debts. And as the story goes, the…
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The English in 17th-Century Tangier
Episode 388 with Karim Bejjit hosted by Graham Cornwell Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Tangier is in the midst of a massive renovation and expansion -- a new ferry and cruise port, a duty-free zone, and the massive Tangier Med shipping facility all meant to make the...
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Slavery and Servitude in the Ottoman Mediterranean
Episode 362 with M’hamed Oualdi & Hayri Gökşin Özkoray hosted by Andreas Guidi Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Our latest podcast in collaboration with The Southeast Passage examines how slavery flourished in the Ottoman Mediterranean in the wake of growing…
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Moriscos and Iberian Thought
Episode 351 with Seth Kimmel hosted by Nir Shafir Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In 1609 the Moriscos were expelled from the Iberian Peninsula, marking the end of a hundred year effort to assimilate as New Christians these former Muslims. In this podcast, Seth Kimmel...
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Disillusionment in Morocco’s February 20 Movement
Episode 343 with Taieb Belghazi & Abdelhay Moudden hosted by Graham Cornwell Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud How do we assess fizzling protest movements? How do social scientists account for difficult-to-quantify facets of political engagement like emotion and…
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Les harkis restés en Algérie: tabou et non-dits
Episode 302 avec Pierre Daum animée par Dorothée Myriam Kellou et Aurélie Perrier Télécharger Flux RSS | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Depuis la fin de la guerre d’indépendance, la question des harkis agite les consciences en France comme en Algérie. Pierre Daum, journaliste au Monde...
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Women and Colonial Legal Pluralism in Algeria
Episode 296 with Sarah Ghabrial hosted by Edna Bonhomme and Sam Dolbee Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In French Algeria, the colonial imperatives of assimilation and difference gave birth to legal pluralism. In this episode, Dr. Sarah Ghabrial explains what it meant...
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Land and Labor in a Moroccan Oasis
with Karen Rignall hosted by Graham Cornwell Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Pre-Saharan Morocco is a transitional space between the Atlas Mountains in the north and the Sahara in the south, and the oases of pre-Saharan Morocco have long been marked by local autonomy,...
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Dark Humor from Algeria's "Dark Decade"
with Elizabeth Perego hosted by Graham Cornwell and Soha El Achi Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Between December 1991 and February 2002, Algeria experienced a protracted civil war, which earned the period the designation of the "dark decade." In this episode, we...
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Development, Race, and the Cold War in Algeria
with Muriam Haleh Davis hosted by Chris Gratien and Aurelie Perrier Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud The French military struggle to maintain control over Algeria throughout the war period (1954-1962) is remembered for its violent and destructive impacts. But during…
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Decolonization, Health Care, and Humanitarianism in Algeria
with Jennifer Johnson hosted by Chris Gratien, Zoe Griffith, and Nora Lessersohn Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud The Algerian War is perhaps the most recognizable national and anti-colonial movement of the 20th century. From the iconic film “The Battle of Algiers” to...
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La prostitution en Algérie à l’époque Ottomane et française
avec Aurélie Perrier animée par Dorothée Myriam Kellou Télécharger Flux RSS | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud L’histoire de l’Algérie coloniale est souvent abordée du point de vue des bouleversements économiques et politiques engendrés par l’occupation française. Mais cette dernière entraîna un...
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Colonialism and the Politics of Identity in Morocco
with Jonathan Wyrtzen hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In many countries of the Middle East and North Africa, European colonial rule lasted only for a matter of decades, and yet its influence in the realms of politics and economy have been...
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Morocco’s New Migrant Class
with Isabella Alexander hosted by Graham Cornwell Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | Hipcast | Soundcloud “Hrig,” the Moroccan Arabic term for “illegal” immigration, translates to “burning.” In the latest episode of Tajine, Isabella Alexander discusses the dramatic rise in sub-Saharan migrants...
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Folktales of the Middle Atlas
with Yelins Mahtat hosted by Graham Cornwell Download the episode Podcast Feed | iTunes | Soundcloud Moroccan folk literature has drawn the attention of researchers for over a century, beginning with the earliest French colonial ethnographers' exhaustive studies of Moroccan dialects through...
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Illicit Sex in Ottoman and French Algeria
with Aurelie Perrier hosted by Sam Dolbee This episode is part of a series on Women, Gender, and Sex in Ottoman history Download the series Podcast Feed | iTunes | Soundcloud The association of Algeria with sex figured prominently in the artwork and literature that was critiqued so famously by...
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An Andalusi in Fatimid Egypt
with Sumaiya Hamdani hosted by Graham Cornwell The story of the twelfth-century scholar Umaya b. `Abd al-`Aziz Abu al-Salt al-Dani al-Ishbili starts in al-Andalus but moves eastward, to Fatimid Cairo and Zirid Tunisia. His movement across the Mediterranean illustrates a west-east transmission of...
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Saharan Jews in French Algeria
with Sarah Stein hosted by Alma Heckman Crosslisted from tajine The 1870 Crémieux Decree extended French citizenship to most, but not all, of Algeria's Jewish population. The Jews of the M'zab Valley were excluded from this legislation. As Professor Sarah Abrevaya Stein explains in this episode,...
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Between Sultans and Kings
with Claire Gilbert hosted by Nir Shafir With increased connections between polities on all sides of the Mediterranean during the early modern period, the importance of translators and translation grew to facilitate diplomatic and economic relations. In this episode, Claire Gilbert explores the...
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The Ottoman Scramble for Africa
with Mostafa Minawi hosted by Chris Gratien The Ottoman Empire occupies an unusual place among the competing imperial powers of the nineteenth century. On one hand, a weak military position often forced the Ottomans to accept unfavorable economic and political arrangements while playing other...
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Race, Slavery, and Islamic Law in the Early Modern Atlantic
This episode is part of our series on Islamic law Download the series Podcast Feed | iTunes | Hipcast | Soundcloud Notions of racial difference played an important role in the Atlantic slave trade and have left a long legacy well after the slave trade was abolished during the nineteenth century....
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Jewish Citizens on Exhibit | Alma Heckman
l'Alliance Israélite Universelle, the Chicago World's Fair and the Ottoman Empire Progress, colonialism, nationalism, and the civilizing mission are all concepts associated with the late nineteenth century that were on display at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. In this podcast,...
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Regroupment Camps and Resettlement in Rural Algeria during the War of Independence | Dorothée Kellou
Resettlement and transfer of populations deemed problematic has long been a strategy employed by states throughout the world from tribal settlement campaigns in the Ottoman Empire and Indian Reservations in the United States to penal colonies in Australia and Siberia. During the twentieth…
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