Leaping Decolonization

Idriss Jebari is a Lecturer in Middle East Studies at Trinity College Dublin. His research focuses on North African cultural and social history after its independences from France, on the radical sixties and seventies, on collective memory in the Arab world, and contemporary Mediterranean history. His work has appeared in International Journal of Middle East Studies, Middle East Critique, and Comparative Studies of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.

• Introduction: the archival traces of North Africa's decolonization; 1. National culture in global Algeria; 2. Planning in transnational development networks; 3. The Arab renaissance and orientalism in Paris; 4. The revolution and the essays in the margins; 5. Tradition and the cultural turn in Tunis; 6. Social class in the city of Rabat; Conclusion: from decolonization to the present in North Africa; Bibliography and sources; Index.

'This insightful and well-researched book situates a generation of scholars and writers in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia within Arab and global intellectual histories and studies of decolonization. Jebari's detailed readings and textual analyses mark an important contribution to understandings of revolution, development, culture and heritage across North Africa as they were articulated in dialogue with Beirut and Paris.' Amy Kallander, Syracuse University