The book "The Invention of the Maghreb: between Africa and the Middle East" prompts us to review basic terminology. This includes terms that we use almost every day as if they are definitive by virtue of geography, history and culture, such as "the Arab Maghreb", "North Africa", "the Middle East" and "sub-Saharan Africa". Shady Lewis Botros read the book
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Anthropologist Abdelmajid Hannoum has just published a fascinating historical enquiry into the origin of the term Maghreb, invented to a large extent by the theoreticians of French colonialism. That word, which he has studied in various archives, especially those of the Bureaux Arabes, did much to cut the region off from the rest of the African continent and the Middle East. Abdelmajid Hannoum is an anthropologist who teaches at Kansas University and is the author of a scholarly tome on (.)