American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) - Activities at MESA 2014 2014 Annual Business Meeting: ALL AIMS MEMBERS, POTENTIAL MEMBERS AND INTERESTED PARTIES ARE INVITED TO ATTEND November 22, 2014, 4:00pm-5:30pm Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Roosevelt 1(E) **We are honored to have Jonathan Smolin, the 2014 L. Carl Brown AIMS Book Prize Winner, give a presentation on his book and take questions at the AIMS Business Meeting** AIMS Sponsored Film: Tingher-Jerusalem (Sunday, 11/23/14, 12:30pm) During the 1950s and 1960s many Berber speaking Moroccan Jews immigrated to Israel. Director Kamal Hachkar returns to his natal village to learn about the population that left and then travels to Israel to locate some of his familys former neighbors. He discovers that at least in retrospect the émigrés retain a strong Berber identity. 2014 AIMS Sponsored Panels (3): [P3644] Morocco during the 1940s: Global Imperatives and Local Responses (Saturday, 11/22/14 5:30pm) Organizer: David Stenner [P3699] The Social Lives of Things: Commodities and Culture in Colonial Algeria (Sunday, 11/23/14 2:00pm) Organizer: Muriam Davis [P3777] Musical Politics in the Interwar Maghrib (Monday, 11/24/14 5:00pm) Organizer: Jonathan Glasser
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