INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

 
 

The Maghreb Review and Maghreb Studies Association
Conference 2025


The theme of our 41st annual conference was:

The Middle East and the Maghreb Between the mid-1970 to the Present Day: Political Culture and Social Change

It was held at St. Anne’s College, Oxford on 8-9 September 2025

Convened jointly by
THE MAGHREB REVIEW
and
The Maghreb Studies Association

Proceedings were published in The Maghreb Review
Vol. 51, Nos 1, 2 and 3, 2026
Maghreb Review Vol 51 No 1 2026 Maghreb Review Vol 51 No 2 2026 Maghreb Review Vol 51 No 3 2026

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The following papers were presented at the conference and Proceedings will be published in The Maghreb Review in 2026.

1. The Second Vatican Council and the reaction of the Churches of the Maghreb countries to the declaration Nostra aetate.

2. Consultation as an Obligation in the Thought of the Egyptian thinker Muhammad Imara (1931–2020).

3. Muhammad Abduh: interpreting the significance of his life and times for Egypt’ s recent history.

4. Muhammad ʿAbid al-Jābirī and Ḥasan Ḥanafī’s Discussion of Islam and Secularism in Ḥiwār al-mashriq wa-l-maghrib.

5. The influence of Ibn ʿArabi on ʿAbd al-Qadir al-Jazaʾiri.

6. Géopolitique de la Turquie/Türkiye et le Rôle de son Armée au XXIième Siècle.

7. Saudi Arabia and the Arab Israeli Peace Process: From the Fahd Plan to an eventual Normalization?

8. Anatomy of the Fall of the Ba’ th Regime in Syria.

9. The Failure of the “Peace Orthodoxy”: a Critical Review of the Israel-Palestine Peace Process.

10. The “Association for the Support of Committees Fighting Repression in Morocco”: A Transnational Historical Source for Studying the Years of Lead in Morocco.

11. Resisting Erasure: Amazigh Cinema as Cultural Resistance in the Maghreb and the Diaspora.

12. Du soft power à l’appropriation du cinéma arabe: les stratégies audiovisuelles des pays du Golfe.

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