De-colonising Exile: The Moroccan Jew in Cinema

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De-colonising Exile : The Moroccan Jew in Cinema. / Sabih, Joshua.

2016. Abstract from Moroccan cinema uncut: local perspectives, transnational dialogues, Marrakech, Morocco.

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Sabih, J 2016, 'De-colonising Exile: The Moroccan Jew in Cinema', Moroccan cinema uncut: local perspectives, transnational dialogues, Marrakech, Morocco, 02/12/2016 - 10/12/2016.

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Sabih, J. (2016). De-colonising Exile: The Moroccan Jew in Cinema. Abstract from Moroccan cinema uncut: local perspectives, transnational dialogues, Marrakech, Morocco.

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Sabih J. De-colonising Exile: The Moroccan Jew in Cinema. 2016. Abstract from Moroccan cinema uncut: local perspectives, transnational dialogues, Marrakech, Morocco.

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Sabih, Joshua. / De-colonising Exile : The Moroccan Jew in Cinema. Abstract from Moroccan cinema uncut: local perspectives, transnational dialogues, Marrakech, Morocco.15 p.

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abstract = "The ”Moroccan Jew” in postcolonial Morocco is a diasporic or exilic figure whose narrative and memory have been confiscated or colonised by the two master narratives of both Zionism and Arab nationalism. Deprived of its own voice, the term Moroccan Jew has been re-cast in these historiographies and its literary and artistic nationalising “outlets” as self- contradictory; a political impossibility. The emergence of new historiographies in Morocco and in the diaspora that have begun challenging the two hitherto dominating nationalist narratives has been “crafted” in literature and cinematography. My paper shall focus on the representation of the Moroccan Jew in both Moroccan and “Jewish” cinemas in the last two decades in order to show how transnational Moroccan cinema and post-Zionist Mizrahi films actually engage Moroccans – Jews and Muslims – to tell their confiscated memories on the screen; de-colonising exile and the Moroccan, the Jew.",
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