Bruce Maddy-Weitzman

Bruce Maddy-Weitzman’s co-edited book (with Daniel Zisenwine), The Maghrib in the New Century: Identity, Religion, and Politics was published by University Press of Florida. It contains his chapter, “Berber/Amazigh Memory Work.” His article, “Maghrib Scenarios,” appeared in the Middle East Review of International Affairs, September 2006. His chapter, “Islamism, Moroccan-Style: The Ideas of Sheikh Yassine,” appeared in Barry Rubin (ed.), Political Islam (New York: Routledge, 2007). His book review of Hamas: A Beginner’s Guide, by Khaled Hroub, appeared in Ha’aretz (English edition), January 5, 2007. He delivered a paper, “Modernity, Ethnicity and Nationalism in Morocco and Algeria: Two Faces of the Berber Experience,” at the annual conference of the Middle East Studies Association of North America in Boston in November 2006. Maddy-Weitzman participated in a closed-door “experts meeting” on “Elements for a Breakthrough in the Western Sahara Conflict,” sponsored by the Toledo International Centre for Peace (CITpax) and African en Canarias – Espacios para el Dialogo, in collaboration with Centro De Estudios Politicos Y Constitucionales (CEPC), held in Madrid in July 2007.

email: bmaddy@post.tau.ac.il

Recent Journal Articles

"Maghrib Scenarios," Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal, Vol. 10, No. 3 (September 2006)

Ethno-politics and globalisation in North Africa: The berber culture movement
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The Journal of North African Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1, March 2006)

Women, Islam, and the Moroccan State: The Struggle over the Personal Status Law
(Middle East Journal, Summer 2005, Vol. 59, No. 3)

Jews and Berbers
(National Geographic, January 2005, Hebrew edition)
Jews and Berbers, English translation

Palestinian and Israeli Intellectuals in the Shadow of Oslo and Intifadat al-Aqsa
(Tami Steinmetz Center's Research Series, 2003; also published in Hebrew in the Dayan Center Papers series)

Islamism, Moroccan-Style: The Ideas of Sheikh Yassine
(Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2003, Vol. 10, No. 1)

Contested Identities: Berbers, 'Berberism' and the State in North Africa
(The Journal of North African Studies, Autumn 2001, Vol. 6, No.3)

Israel and Morocco: A special Relationship
(The Maghreb Review, 1996, Vol. 21, No. 1-2)

Population Growth and Family Planning in Morocco
(Asian and African Studies, March 1992, Vol. 26, No. 1)