The (African) Arab Cup
Morocco’s World Cup heroics are forging a new, dissident Third-World solidarity, reflecting the multifaceted nature of Moroccan identity itself: simultaneously Arab, African, and Amazigh.
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Hisham Aïdi
Hisham Aïdi is Senior Lecturer at SIPA Columbia University and a scholar-in-residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, working on a project titled W.E.B. Du Bois and the Afro-Arab World.
Egypt and the Afrocentrists: The latest round
Why did North Africans and Middle Easterners almost overnight go from being comrades-in-struggle to racial intruders in Africa and in African American cities?
The new ‘invisible enemy’
Anti-racism and political contagion from Save Darfur to Black Lives Matter.
A very American story
The long and wondrous life of Hassan Ouakrim, the “Cultural Ambassador” of the Maghreb to the United States.
The geo-politics of Malcolm X
Malcolm X is a powerful optic through which to understand America’s post-war ascendance and expansion into the Middle East.
The anti-orientalist
The legacy in Morocco of the influential Spanish-born novelist Juan Goytisolo, who died in mid-2017.
Tangier’s Jazzmen — and their phantom producer
He rode on Tito Puente’s float during the Puerto Rican Day Parade of 1969, when the mambo king was given a key to the city