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 (.)
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 (.)