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A cultural anthropologist, Dr. Laurence Michalak is a specialist in the Arab World, particularly North Africa. Dr. Michalak received his BA from Stanford (1964), MA from the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London (1970) and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley (1983). He was Vice Chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the UC-Berkeley for 23 years, retiring in 2002. Since, he has taught as a visitor at UC/Berkeley (2003, 2010, 2011) and on Semester at Sea (Fall 2005), has done postdoctoral work in alcohol studies (2002-2004), has directed the Centre d'Études Maghrébines à Tunis (CEMAT), Tunisia (2006-10), and has consulted for the Council for a Community of Democracies. Dr. Michalak’s interests include informal commerce, migration, and economic development. He has edited books on social legislation in the contemporary Middle East and on international migration and social change in the Maghreb. He is currently working on a book about informal commerce in Tunisia.
On October 5th, 2017, CEMAT Assistant Director Dr. Meriem Guetat interviewed Dr. Michalak on his five decades of research in Tunisia. In this podcast, Michalak discusses his experiences in Tunisia of the 1960s, his early interest in weekly markets, and his current interest in the informal commerce in post-Revolution Tunisia.
Le cinéma Tunisien post-révolutionnaire : une vue d’ensemble, un regard intérieur
Entretien avec le sociologue ruraliste marocain Mohamed Mehdi
A Short History of the Tunisian Film Industry
Aux origines du MALG. Témoignage d’un compagnon de Boussouf
Les évolutions post-2011 du cinéma tunisien
Rencontre avec Abdelkrim Elaidi autour de son ouvrage: Étudiants volontaires et paysans. Algérie 1970
Maroc: Une économie sous plafond de verre
Tunisian Librarians and the Book History of African Decolonization, 1956-1988
L’édification de l’État social algérien à l’indépendance : émigration, emploi et chantiers de solidarité (1962-1964)
The Casablanca Art School, Platforms and Patterns for a Postcolonial Avant-Garde
The Politics of Music(ology) in the Maghrib
Les deux Guerres mondiales et l’Algérie
The Many Lives of al-Andalus: A Conversation with Eric Calderwood
Engendering Inclusive Politics: Gender Quotas in Morocco’s Legislatures
Les politiques publiques de modernisation agricole au Maghreb : enjeux et défis pour le futur
Seeing the Words of Poets: Muḥammad Bennīs and the Visual in Moroccan Poetry
Performing Place-based Knowledge: The Case of Aouchem
Narrative Subversions: “Unnatural” Narration and an Ethics of Engagement in the Work of Mahi Binebine
Amazigh Sisterhood in Poetry and Songs During the Algerian War
Watermelons, Dates, and Living with Water Scarcity in Zagora
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