Imperial/ Colonial
Imperialism in North Africa: Autobiography, Leila Abouzeid
In Morocco, after 1912, the colonial regime eschewed, for the most part, introducing overt changes into Islamic personal status law.
Imperialism in North Africa: Personal Account, Captain Carette
To the east of Algiers is a rugged mountainous region, the Kabylia, whose loftiest peak is named after a holy woman, Lalla Khadija.
Dona Marina, Cortes’ Translator: Poem, La Malinche
A well-known Chicana poem about Malinche. Tafolla took inspiration from the famous 1967 poem of the Chicano movement, “Yo Soy Joaquín,” but rewrites from an explicitly feminist perspective.
Imperialism in North Africa: Interview, Djamila Bouhired
By the eve of the revolution, Algerian demands for even limited political and civil rights had been repeatedly rebuffed by the French colonial regime and the nearly one million European settlers in the country.
Dona Marina, Cortes’ Translator: Nonfiction, Octavio Paz
This essay, which seeks to explain modern Mexican sensibilities by examining the phrases “hijos de la chingada” and “malinchista,” presents La Malinche as violated woman—part victim, part traitor to her nation.
Imperialism in North Africa: Law, Code of Personal Status
In 1956 one of the most revolutionary family law codes in the Arab or Islamic world was proclaimed in the newly independent Tunisian state which, paradoxically, had not suffered a political revolution in the way that colonial Algeria would.
New York Public Library Digital Collections
The NYPL Digital Collection provides access to over 755,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities, including illuminated manuscripts, vintage posters, illustrated books, and printed ephemera.
Imperialism in North Africa: Interview, Tewhida Ben Sheikh
Tewhida Ben Sheikh [1909-2010] was the first North African Muslim woman to earn a medical degree from the Faculty of Medicine in Paris, in 1936, while Tunisia was still under colonial rule.
Imperialism in North Africa: Autobiography, Fadhma Amrouche
Fadhma Amrouche was the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished, illiterate Berber peasant woman.
Imperialism in North Africa: Report, M. Coriat
North Africa has long been home to ancient, diverse communities of Jews, originally from Spain, Italy, Palestine, or elsewhere.