Nelcya Delanoe is a professor of history at the University of Paris (Nanterre), and the author of Poussieres d’empires (Paris, PUF editions/Casablanca, Tarik editions, 2002).

Recent articles

Moroccans in Spain were victims of the Madrid bombs and, it seems, also perpetrators. How will the relationship between the two states, equally ambiguous, be affected?

President Bush has rallied his troops for what he calls “The first warof the 21st century”. What is your view of this crisis, where, briefly, do you stand? This is the question we are putting to people around the world, especially those with their own public reputation and following. Our aim, to help create a truly global debate all can identify with.

See also "Writers, artists and civic leaders on the War: Part I"

Morocco’s complex colonial and post-colonial history, and its fusion of regal and religious authority, cast a particular light on current debates about religion and secularism in the Islamic world. Here, a French writer visits her homeland after a year’s absence and finds a different space of freedom under the stars.