Writing Tangier

The Editors: Ralph M. Coury is Professor of History at Fairfield University in Connecticut where he specializes in teaching Middle Eastern history. He received his B.A. in history from Hamilton College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Near Eastern studies from Princeton University. He has written a wide range of works on Arab political and intellectual history and Orientalism, including The Making of an Egyptian Arab Nationalist: The Early Years of Azzam Pasha, 1893-1938. He is the co-editor of The Arab-African and Islamic Worlds: Interdisciplinary Studies and Journal of Middle Eastern and North African Intellectual and Cultural Studies. R. Kevin Lacey is Associate Professor in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He earned his B.A. in government at Cornell University, and his M.A. in Middle Eastern studies and his Ph.D. in Near Eastern languages and civilizations from Harvard University. His fields of specialization include Arabic literature, Arab-Islamic civilization, and cross-cultural encounters involving the West and the Arab-Islamic world. He has co-edited and contributed articles to Mirrors on the Maghrib and The Arab-African and Islamic Worlds: Interdisciplinary Studies. He is co-editor of Journal of Middle Eastern and North African Intellectual and Cultural Studies.

Contents: Khalid Amine/Andrew Hussey: A Preface – Ralph M. Coury: Some Introductory Remarks – Allen Hibbard: Tangier at the Crossroads: Cross-cultural Encounters and Literary Production – Jeffrey Miller: Publishing Tangier: Twenty-five Years – Salah Moukhlis: Localized Identity, Universal Experience: Celebrating Mohamed Choukri as a Moroccan Writer – Andrew Hussey: Forbidden Territory: Juan Goytisolo’s Maps of Tangier – Abdellatif Akbib: Bankruptcy in Mohamed Choukri’s The Flower Freak – Khalid Amine: Paul Bowles’ Tangier: An Ambiguous Compromise – R. Kevin Lacey: The Writers/Storytellers of Morocco and Paul Bowles: Some Observations and Afterthoughts – Barry Tharaud: Culture and Existence in Bowles’ Short Fiction – Greg Mullins: Visions and Revisions of Paul Bowles in Tangier – Ralph M. Coury: The Twain Met: Paul Bowles’ Western and Arab Critics – Karim Bejjit: Tangier That Was: The Confessions of Samuel Pepys (1683) – Mohammed-Saâd Zemmouri : Tanger, ville-mythe dans le discours romanesque de deux écrivains tangérois (M. Choukri and T. Ben Jelloun) – José Manuel Goñi Pérez: Las construcciones verbales de Tánger: tres ejemplos de la narrativa española.