The Arab-African and Islamic worlds : interdisciplinary studies / edited by R. Kevin Lacey, and Ralph M. Coury.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Ralph M. Coury -- Religion and Politics. Freedom for Moroccans? Meaningful Case of the Development of a Stable Polyarchy / Lise Garon. Islamism the Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia and the Struggle for Change / Azzedine Layachi. Pivotal or Peripheral? The Maghreb in U.S. Foreign Policy / Oliver Wilcox. Islamism in Algeria: The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion / Michael J. Willis -- Race, Gender, and Ethnicity. Sex, Texts, and States: A Critique of North African Discourses on Islam / Asma Borlas. Essentially Amazigh: Urban Berbers and the Global Village / David Crawford and Katherine E. Hoffman. The "Beurs": Between and Beyond National Boundaries / Alec G. Hargreaves. A Socio-Literary Perspective of Women in the Maghreb: Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia / Rafika Merini. Interpreting Ethnic Quiescence: A Brief History of the Berbers of Morocco / Stephanie S. Saad. The Cultural Dimensions of the Sudanese Civil War / William C. Young -- Music, Literature, and Film.

Reinterpreting the Tunisian Past: Les silences du palais / Roy Armes. The Second War of Algeria: The Representation of History in Fictional Works of the 1990s / Susan Ireland. Western Movie Representations of Arab-African North Africa: The Sheltering Sky and the Question of Orientalism / R. Kevin Lacey. Literate Women in Three Moroccan Writers / John Maier. The Wind and the Lion: Myth versus Reality in the Life and Times of Moulay Ahmed al-Raisuli / Francis Poole. Mixing Pop and Politics: The Role of Rai in Algerian Political Discourse / Rod Skilbeck. Some Remarks on Jilala Music from Tangier, Morocco / Ben Yarmolinsky.