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Anna Baldinetti received her doctorate from the University of Siena in 1994. She now teaches African and Middle Eastern history at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Perugia. Her research concerns the political history of Egypt and the Maghrib in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is the author of Orientalismo e colonialismo. La ricerca di consenso in Egitto all’impresa di Libia (Rome: Istituto per l’Oriente, 1997). Kmar Kchir-Bendana is a researcher at the Institut Supérieur de l’Histoire du Mouvement National (ISHMN) at the University of La Manouba, and a Research Associate at the Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain (IRMC), Tunis. She is a film devotee and also specialises in the cultural and intellectual history of Tunisia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Fanny Colonna is a sociologist and Directeur de Recherche Émérite at the CNRS (Laboratoire Méditerranéen de Sociologie, Aix-en-Provence). Born in Algeria in 1934 to a family which had migrated there in the nineteenth century, she was a student and then professor at the University of Algiers. Most notably the author of Instituteurs algériens, 1883-1939 (Paris: FNSP, 1975) and of Les Versets de l’Invincibilité: Permanence et changements religieux dans l’Algérie contemporaine (Paris: FNSP, 1995), she is particularly concerned with intellectuals and local culture in Algeria and, more recently, in Egypt. She has lived in France since 1993. Moshe Gershovich is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is the author of French Military Rule in Morocco: Colonialism and its Consequences (London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2000). He received his doctorate from Harvard in 1995. His contribution is part of an oral history project concerning Moroccan veterans of the French Army. Liat Kozma is a graduate student at the department of Middle Eastern Studies at New York University. She holds an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from Tel Aviv University, and is currently researching concepts of licit and illicit sexuality in late nineteenth century Egypt. James McDougall is a Junior Research Fellow at the Middle East Centre of St Antony’s College, Oxford, where he also completed his doctoral thesis. His
research interests include the cultural and intellectual history of nationalism in the Middle East and North Africa, the history of French colonialism, and theories of historiography. Odile Moreau studied Arabic and Turkish at the Institut National de Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris. Her doctoral dissertation examined the military reforms of the late Ottoman empire. She is now a researcher at the Institut de Recherches sur le Maghreb Contemporain (IRMC), Tunis, where she coordinates an international research group on ‘the Reform of the State in the Mediterranean Muslim World in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries’. Katarzyna Pieprzak received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan in December 2001. Her research interests include globalisation and culture in North Africa and the narration of trauma in Algerian and Rwandan literature. She currently teaches at the City University of New York. Paul A.Silverstein is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Reed College (Portland, USA) and a member of the editorial committee of Middle East Report. He is currently finishing a book project, Trans-Politics: Islam, Berberity and the French Nation-State, and is co-editor (with Ussama Makdisi) of Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa (forthcoming). Benjamin Stora has recently been appointed to a chair in the History of the Maghrib at the Institut National de Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris. Born in Algeria, he is a frequent commentator on North African affairs in the francophone media, and the author of La Gangrène et l’Oubli: la Mémoire de la Guerre d’Algérie (Paris: la Découverte, 1991) and of numerous other books and articles. His work has considered the social and political history of Algerian nationalism, Franco-Maghribi relations before and after decolonisation, Algerian immigration to France, and the current conflict in Algeria.
