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Centering on women's movements before, during, and after the revolutions that started in 2010, Women's Movements in Post-"Arab Spring" North Africa highlights the broader sources of authority that affected the emergence of new feminist actors and agents and their impact on the sociopolitical landscapes of the region. (Provided by publisher)

Cemetery and landscape studies have been hallmarks of North African archaeology for more than one hundred years. Mortuary Landscapes of North Africa is the first book to combine these two fields by considering North African cemeteries within the context of their wider landscapes. This unique perspective allows for new interpretations of notions of identity, community, imperial influence, and sacred space. Based on a wealth of material research from current fieldwork, this collection of essays investigates how North African funerary monuments acted as regional boundaries, markers of identity and status, and barometers of cultural change. The essays cover a broad range in terms of space and time - from southern Libya to eastern Algeria, and from the seventh century BCE to the seventh century CE. A comprehensive introduction explains the importance of the 'landscape perspective' that these studies bring to North African funerary monuments, while individual case-studies address such topics as the African way of death among the Garamantes, the ritual reasons for the location of certain Early Christian tombs, Punic burials, Roman cupula tombs, and the effects of rapid state formation and imperial incorporation on tomb builders. Unique in both scope and perspective, this volume will prove invaluable to a cross-section of archaeological scholars.

Political risk is one of the determinants of employment in the tourism industry. Changes in the level of political risk in a country result in fluctuations in employment in the tourism sector. Countries with a high level of political risk experience a decline in employment whereas countries with a low level of political risk experience an increase in employment. This paper investigates the impact of political risk on employment in South Africa's tourism industry using quarterly time series data for the period between 2007 and 2017. The study employs the Autoregressive Distribution Lag (ARDL) model to determine the impact of political risk on employment in tourism in both the short- and long-run. The results from the analysis reveal that political risk has both short- and long-run effects on employment in South Africa's tourism industry. When the level of political risk declines by 1%, employment grows by 5.016% in the long-run whereas employment increases by 1.51% in the short-run when the level of political risk declines by 1%. These results imply that governments have to keep the level of political risk low by avoiding political risk events and actions for the tourism industry to create additional employment opportunities.

Women's voices are brought to the fore in this comprehensive analysis of women and social change in North Africa. Focusing on grass-roots perspectives, readers will gain a rare glimpse into how both the intentional and unintentional actions of men and women contribute to societal transformation. Most chapters are based on extensive field work that illuminates the real-life experiences, advocacy, and agency of women in the region. The book considers frequently less studied issues including migration, legal changes, oral and written law, Islamic feminism, and grass-roots activism. It also looks at the effectiveness of shelters for abused women and the changes that occurred in the wake of the 2011 Arab uprisings, as well as challenging conventional notions of feminist agency by examining Salafi women's life choices. Recommended for students and scholars, as well as international development professionals with an interest in the MENA region

This volume provides a detailed analysis of language contact in North Africa and explores the historical presence of the languages used in the region, including the different varieties of Arabic and Berber as well as European languages. Using a wide range of data sets, it provides a comprehensive analysis of the mechanisms of language contact under classical diglossia and societal bilingualism, examining multiple cases of oral and written code-switching. It also describes contact-induced lexical and structural change in such situations and discusses the possible appearance of new varieties within the context of diglossia. Examples from past diglossic situations are examined, including the situation in Muslim Spain and the Maltese Islands. An analysis of the current situation of Arabic vernaculars, not only in the Maghreb but also in other Arabic-speaking areas, is also presented. This book will appeal to anyone interested in language contact, the Arabic language, and North Africa

Building on the editors' earlier book, Monetary Policy and Central Banking in the Middle East and North Africa, this book emphasises monetary policy strategies and frameworks. It fills an important gap providing multi-country and single-country studies on monetary policy in post-civil war Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, the Palestinian Territory and Turkey

An examination of the problems faced by the various governments of North Africa as well as United States policies in the area; 8 articles.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on the Spelling of Arabic Words -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Popular Music -- Introduction -- Further Reading -- Arab Spring Sounds -- Further Reading -- Birth of Arab Pop -- Further Reading -- Classical Singers -- Further Reading -- Dissident Music -- Further Reading -- Egyptian Shaabi -- Further Reading -- Gulf Singers -- Further Reading -- Israel -- Further Reading -- Maqamat and Instrumentation -- Further Reading -- New Youth Trends -- Further Reading -- Opera -- Further Reading -- Pop Stars -- Further Reading -- Rai Music -- Further Reading -- Umm Kulthum and the Golden Age -- Further Reading -- Chapter 2: Books and Contemporary Literature -- Introduction -- Further Reading -- Early 20th-Century Masters -- Further Reading -- E-Books -- Further Reading -- Evolution of the Modern Novel -- Further Reading -- Leftist and Arab Spring Writers -- Further Reading -- Poetry -- Further Reading -- Religious Writers -- Further Reading -- Saudi Novelists -- Further Reading -- Women Writers and New Novelists -- Further Reading -- Chapter 3: Film -- Introduction -- Further Reading -- Censorship and Decline -- Further Reading -- Classic Directors -- Further Reading -- Egyptian Comedy Stars -- Further Reading -- Egyptian New Realist Cinema -- Further Reading -- Film Festivals, Funding, and the Entertainment Press -- Further Reading -- Golden Age Movie Stars -- Further Reading -- Golden Era -- Further Reading -- Lebanese Civil War Films -- Further Reading -- Modern Cinema Stars -- Further Reading -- Moroccan Cinema -- Further Reading -- Palestinian, Syrian, and Gulf Cinema -- Further Reading -- Tunisian Directors -- Further Reading -- Chapter 4: Television and Radio -- Introduction -- Further Reading -- Early Pan-Arab and Western-Based Arab Media -- Further Reading.

In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans, both male and female, were abducted by pirates, sold on the slave market, and enslaved in North Africa. Between the sixteenth and the early nineteenth centuries, pirates from Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, and Morocco not only attacked sailors and merchants in the Mediterranean but also roved as far as Iceland. A substantial number of the European captives who later returned home from the Barbary Coast, as maritime North Africa was then called, wrote and published accounts of their experiences. These popular narratives greatly influenced the development of the modern novel and autobiography, and they also shaped European perceptions of slavery as well as of the Muslim world.Barbary Captives brings together a selection of early modern slave narratives in English translation for the first time. It features accounts written by men and women across three centuries and in nine different languages that recount the experience of capture and servitude in North Africa. These texts tell the stories of Christian pirates, Christian rowers on Muslim galleys, house slaves in the palaces of rulers, domestic servants, agricultural slaves, renegades, and social climbers in captivity. They also depict liberation through ransom, escape, or religious conversion. This book sheds new light on the social history of Mediterranean slavery and piracy, early modern concepts of unfree labor, and the evolution of the Barbary captivity narrative as a literary and historical genre