Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; Orientalism as Irony in Gerard de Nerval's Voyage en Orient; Watering the Garden of Tangier: Colonial Contestations in a Moroccan City; The Social Context of Working Equines in the Urban Middle East: The Example of Fez Medina; The Role of the Medinas in the Reconstruction of Algerian Culture and Identity; Geographies of Jewish Tlemcen; Neighbourhood Notes: Texture and Streetscape in the Medina of Tunis; Preservation and Self-Absorption: Italian Colonisation and the Walled City of Tripoli, Libya; Abstracts; Index
Summary
This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to the medina, the traditional walled Arab city of North Africa. The medina becomes a concrete case study for comparative explorations of general questions about the social use of urban space by opening up fields of research at the intersection of history, comparative cultural studies, architecture and anthropology. Essays by American, European and North African scholars demonstrate a variety of sources and theoretical approaches now being used in writing historical narratives framed within the city space. They shed light on recent studies by anthr