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Items with the tag:

north africa

Non­fic­tion
Hate: The Ris­ing Tide of Anti-Semi­tism in France (and What It Means for Us)
Marc Weitz­mann
Non­fic­tion
Sephardic Wom­en’s Voic­es: Out of North Africa
Nina B. Lichtenstein
Essay

Tast­ing My Russ­ian Grand­moth­er’s Food in Tangiers

Mary Mor­ris
May 6, 2018
Excerpt

Excerpt: The Last Watch­man of Old Cairo

Michael David Lukas
March 1, 2018
Fic­tion
The Last Watch­man of Old Cairo
Michael David Lukas
Non­fic­tion
The Mer­chants of Oran: A Jew­ish Port at the Dawn of Empire
Joshua Schreier
Non­fic­tion
Com­ing of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Ado­les­cence, Jew­ish Law, and Ordi­nary Culture
Eve Krakowski
Non­fic­tion
Across Legal Lines: Jews and Mus­lims in Mod­ern Morocco
Jessica M. Marglin
Chil­dren’s
Mus­sia of Morocco
Ella Verzov and Chana Oirechman
Non­fic­tion
Arab Fall: How the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood Won and Lost Egypt in 891 Days
Eric Trager
Non­fic­tion
Return to Casablan­ca: Jews, Mus­lims and an Israeli Anthropologist
André Levy
Non­fic­tion
The Bur­dens of Broth­er­hood: Jews and Mus­lims from North Africa to France
Ethan B. Katz
Excerpt

“If you think Cairo’s any bet­ter, my dear, you’re mistaken.”

Yitzhak Gormezano Goren
August 12, 2015
Non­fic­tion
Saha­ran Jews and the Fate of French Algeria
Sarah Abre­vaya Stein
Essay

My Name is Yusha

Josh Weil, author of the recent­ly pub­lished The Great Glass Sea, is blog­ging here today for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and MyJew­ish­Learn­ing.Any run-in with…
Josh Weil
July 8, 2014
Non­fic­tion
Where the Wind Blew: A Boy­hood Lost in Tangier
Michel Emile Bensadon

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