Daniel Zisenwine published “Mauritania’s Democratic Transition: A Regional Model for Political Reform?,” in the December 2007 issue of the Journal of North African Studies. In September 2007 he spoke on “Duality or Competing Ideologies: Moroccan Nationalism and Islam,” at the Institute of Counter-Terrorism’s annual conference, held at the Interdisciplinary Institute Herzliya. In November he delivered a paper on “From Reform Calls to Demands for Independence: Moroccan Nationalist Politics during World War II,” at the annual MESA meeting in Montreal. Zisenwine also spoke on North Africa’s Berber population at an international video conference held jointly by the Global Research in International Affairs Center and the Public Affairs Office, US Embassy, Tel Aviv, in January 2008. In April he lectured on “Disinterested Sympathizers: Moroccan Nationalists and Moroccan Jews during World War II,” at an international conference on North African Jewry during the Second World War convened by Yad Vashem and Yad Ben Zvi in Jerusalem.

 email: danz@post.tau.ac.il