Selected Articles:

1. “The Register of the Slaves of Sultan Mawlay Ismail in Late Seventeenth Century Morocco,” Journal of African History, 51 (1), 89-98, 2010.

2. “Francia y el Islam: un Legado Colonial Legacy o un Encuentro Cultural? Un Análisis más allá del “Hiyab” in Revista Culturas. Seville (Spain): Edición: Fundación Tres Culturas, 7, 116-135, 2010.

3. “Constructing a Diasporic Identity: Tracing the Origins of Gnawa Spiritual Group in Morocco,” Journal of African History, 49 (2), 241-260, 2008.

4. “Surviving Slavery: Sexuality and Female Agency in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Morocco,” Historical Reflections, vol. 34, 1, 73-88, 2008.

5. “Blacks and Slavery in Morocco:  The Question of the Haratin at the End of the Seventeenth Century,” in Disaporic Africa. A Reader, ed. by Michael Gomez, New York University Press, 2006.

6. “Raça

, Escravidão e Islã no Marrocos: a questão dos haratin,” Revista Afro-Ásia, O Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais da UFBA convida V. As. para o lançamento, 2004, 31, 9-38.

7. “Muslim Diaspora in Western Europe.  The Islamic headscarf (hijab), the Media and Muslims’ Integration in France,” Citizenship Studies, Taylor and Francis Ltd, 2002, 6:3.

8. “Orientalism: Henry Louis Gates in Africa,” AFRAM Review, Publication Semestrielle du Centre d’Etudes Afro-Américaines de l’Université Denis Diderot (Paris 7) et du Cercle d’Etudes Afro-Américaines (CEAA), Numéro 51, June 2000.

9. “The Transmission of Islamic Knowledge in Moorish Society from the Rise of the Almoravids (ca. 1040) to the 19th Century,” Journal of Religion in Africa, 1999.

Books:

1. BLACK MOROCCO: A HISTORY OF RACE, GENDER AND SLAVERY. The Internal African Diaspora and Slavery in the Islamic Discourse (forthcoming).

What interests me most is the culture of silence — the refusal to engage in discussions about slavery, racial attitudes, and gender issues — and my goal is to recover the silenced histories of slavery in “Islamic” North Africa. I challenge the conventional readings on the integration of black West Africans in Morocco by deconstructing familiar concepts and focusing on the agency of the enslaved and investigating their subaltern relationships with the ruling institutions, power, race, gender, and identity politics.

2. La vie intellectuelle Islamique dans le Sahel ouest africain. Une étude sociale de l’enseignement islamique en Mauritanie et au Nord du Mali (XVIe-XIXe siècles) et traduction annotée de Fath ash-shakur d’al-Bartili-Walati (mort en 1805), Paris: l'Harmattan, 2002. (Coll. Sociétés africaines & diaspora, 40€, 492p) ISBN 2-7475-2597-X.

Ce livre nous renseigne sur l’histoire culturelle du Sahel ouest-africain, ses ethnies, ses coutumes et ses activités intellectuelles depuis le XVIè siècle jusqu’au début du XIXè siècle. C’est un recueil de biographies de savants qui constitue une source fondamentale sur l’enseignement, la vie intellectuelle et beaucoup d’autres aspects des sociétés de cette région. En situant l’œuvre dans son contexte social et politique, il nous fait pénétrer dans les milieux au sein desquels ces personnages ont vécu et exercé leurs activités de savants, de juristes, d’enseignants.

Media:

1. 2006, A radio show “Gnawa Spiritual Music in Morocco” aired on Sunday, December 03, 2006) for Boston University World of Ideas, a weekly one-hour show produced at WBUR 90.9 FM, Boston’s NPR radio station (Listen to this show ). It was recorded at the African Studies Center and African-American Studies Program at Boston University. http://www.buworldofideas.org/shows/2006/12/20061203.asp

2. 2006, Advice and interview for the program “African Slaves in Islamic Lands” for the public radio series Afropop Worldwide, PUBLIC RADIO INTERNATIONAL and NPR affiliate stations around the U.S., http://www.afropop.org/.

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