Samir Ben-Layashi organized an international workshop in December 2010 at Jerusalem's Van Leer Institute discussing new approaches to modern Moroccan history, and moderated several panels at the workshop. That same month, Ben-Layashi delivered a paper, "Between the Colonial and Postcolonial Sensitivity: Were the Jews of Morocco Colonized?" at the annual conference of the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), in Boston. Ben-Layashi's article on "What is Likely to Happen in Libya Once Weapons become silent?" was published in August on the Israeli Walla  internet news website.

email: samirben@post.tau.ac.il

Articles

"Hammam as lieu de mémoire," Diwaniyya, November 22, 2011. (English)

"What is Supposed to Happen in Libya once Weapons Get Silent?" (Op-Ed article), Walla News, August 25, 2011 (Hebrew)

"Moroccan Reform: The Royal Will and Popular Protests" (Op-Ed article), Tel Aviv Notes,  Vol 15, November 15, 2011 (English)

with Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, "Myth, History, and Realpolitick: Morocco and Its Jewish Community," in The Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Vol 9, Issue 1 (March 2010), pp. 89-106.

"The Return to Morocco", Haaretz, 20 November 2008 (Hebrew).

"We All Shared One Dream", Haaretz, 31 Nov 2008) (English).

"Secularism in the Moroccan Amazigh discourse", The Journal of North African Studies, Vol. 12, No. 2, Jun 2007.

"Morocco's 2007 Elections: A Social Reading", Middle East Review of International Affairs, Vol. 11, No. 4, Dec 2007.

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Chapters in Books

Samir Ben-Layashi & Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, "Myth, History and Realpolitik: Morocco and its Jewish Community," in Muslim Attitudes to Jews and Israel: The Ambivalences of Rejection, Antagonism, Tolerance and Cooperation, (ed) Moshe Ma'oz, (Brighton, Portland, Toronto: Sussex Academic Press, 2010), 126-141.

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Reviews

Moreau, Odile. (ed.) Réforme de l’État et réformismes au Maghreb (XIXe – XXe siècles). Paris: L’Harmattan - Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain, 2009. 368 pp., Mediterranean Historical Review, Volume 26, Issue  2, 2011. (English)

Voices of the New Arab Public, The European Legacy, Vol. 12, No. 5, 2007.

Richard Bonney, Jihad: From Quran to bin Laden," The European Legacy, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2006

Strong Religion, the Rise of Fundamentalism around the World, Gabriel A. Almond, R. Scott Appleby and Emmanuel Sivan, Haaretz (Sfarim), 10 Dec 2004, (English).

Strong Religion, the Rise of Fundamentalism around the World, Gabriel A. Almond, R. Scott Appleby and Emmanuel Sivan, Haaretz (Sfarim), 8 Dec 2004,  (Hebrew).

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