The Beats, Tangier and Site-Specificity

Bowles (in suit) with Ginsberg (left) and Burroughs (right)
with two friends, Hotel Muniria garden, early 60's

Two Panel Sessions proposed by Pr Allen Hibbard, Middle East Center, Middle Tennessee State University, USA

Building on three previous conferences (“Writing Tangier,” “Voices of Tangier,” and “Performing/Picturing Tangier”), the proposed panels will explore the intriguing historical relationship between Beat figures and Tangier. Interest in the Beats has remained lively, both in the academy and the general public. The term “beat,” Jack Kerouac once noted, meant “characters of special spirituality who didn’t gang up but were solitary Bartlebies staring out the dead wall window of our civilization.” One critic has recently described the term as characterizing “an alternative America during the civil rights and Asian war years, a counter to philistinism and paranoia and part of an ongoing inquiry into the construction of nationhood.” It’s not unusual to find among American youth today a kind of nostalgia for the Beats and their times.

While the importance of Tangier for many Beat figures has always been recognized, the nature of the city’s role has not been thoroughly understood and articulated. Paul Bowles who had taken up residence in Tangier soon after World War II ended, unwittingly attracted a number of Beat figures to the city, even though his aesthetic vision stands in contrast to that of most of the Beats. In Tangier William S. Burroughs (with the help of Allen Ginsberg) assembled his masterpiece Naked Lunch. Brion Gysin, Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac and others associated with the Beats made appearances in the city. Tangier also was a magnet for “late beats” such as Ira Cohen, Marc Schleiffer, Irving Rosenthal, Charles Wright, and Alfred Chester.

Bringing a discussion of the Beats to Tangier will likely reorient our thinking about this literary/cultural phenomenon, opening fresh approaches, critiques, and insights. Among the topics that might productively be addressed in this context are: the effect of Beats on Tangier, the Beat legacy in Tangier, interaction between particular Moroccans and the Beats, the Beats within the context of Moroccan independence, Tangier and the Beats within the context of American politics in the 50s, women’s roles (or lack thereof), and the place of the Beats within a wider historical context of Moroccan-American-European relations.

Dos sesiones propuestas por Allen Hibbard, Middle East Center, Middle Tennessee State University, USA

Teniendo en cuenta los tres Congresos anteriores, (Writing Tangier, Voices of Tangier y Performing/Picturing Tangier), las dos sesiones que se proponen explorarán la fascinante relación histórica entre los escritores de la llamada generación Beat y Tánger. El interés por los Beat ha permanecido vivo tanto en el mundo académico como por en el mundo de los lectores. El término Beat significó, según comentara Jack Kerouac, «personajes de especial espiritualidad; individuales y solitarios Bartlebys, que miran fijamente a través de la ventana el túnel sin salida en el que se encuentra nuestra civilización». Un crítico ha descrito recientemente el término como caracterizador de «una América alternativa durante la época de los derechos civiles y la guerra de Asia, una respuesta al filistenismo y la paranoia, y como parte de una investigación sobre la construcción de lo nacional». No es inusual encontrar hoy en día entre la juventud Americana una especie de nostalgia por los Beats y su época.

Mientras que la importancia de Tánger para muchos de los Beats ha sido siempre destacada, la naturaleza de la función de la ciudad no ha sido profundamente entendida y explicada. Paul Bowles quien había establecido su residencia en Tánger justo después de la finalización de la segunda Guerra Mundial, inconscientemente atrajo a miembros de los llamados Beat a la ciudad, aunque su visión estética difiriera de la de la mayoría de los Beats. En Tánger William S. Burroughs, con la ayuda de Allen Ginsberg escribió su obra maestra Naked Lunch. Brion Gysin, Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac y otros artistas asociados con los Beat pasaron por la ciudad. Tánger fue también como un imán para los llamados ‘late Beats’ (Beats tardíos) como Ira Cohen, Marc Schleiffer, Irving Rosenthal, Charles Wright y Alfred Chester. Volver a hablar sobre los Beat en Tánger reorientará, a buen seguro, nuestro conocimiento sobre este fenómeno literario y cultural, abriendo nuevas vías de estudio, críticas y posicionamientos teóricos. Algunos de los temas de estudio marcados en este contexto son: el efecto de los Beat en Tánger, el legado de los Beat en Tánger, la interacción entre marroquíes y los Beats, los Beats en el contexto de la independencia de Marruecos; Tánger y los Beats en el contexto de la política estadounidense de los años 50; la función de la mujer (o la ausencia de la misma); y, para finalizar, el lugar de los Beats en un contexto histórico más amplio de las relaciones entre Marruecos, Estados Unidos y Europa. Las ponencias deben centrarse en un autor o textos en particular, aspectos teóricos relevantes o aspectos históricos y culturales. También se tendrán en cuenta propuestas de carácter creativo que den respuesta al tema de congreso. Se invita a aquellos que, por lo tanto, investiguen los límites de este paradigma en términos teóricos y reales.


Deux tables rondes sur la thématique des Beats à Tanger proposées par le Pr Allen Hibbard, Middle East Center, Middle Tennessee State University, USA

Inspirées des trois éditions précédentes du Colloque (“Ecrire Tanger”, “Voix de Tanger,” et “Tanger scénique”), les tables rondes proposées exploreront l’intrigante relation historique entre les figures de la beat generation et Tanger. L’intérêt porté aux Beats est toujours d’actualité, aussi bien chez les chercheurs que pour le grand public. Le terme “beat” renvoie, d’après Jack Kerouac, aux “personnages d’une spiritualité spéciale qui ne se sont pas coalisé, mais qui, tels des brebis solitaires, regardent fixement de la fenêtre murale de notre civilisation morte”. Un critique a récemment décrit ce terme comme caractérisant “l’Amérique alternative des années de guerre asiatique et des droits civils, un comptoir du philistinisme et de la paranoïa, et un aspect de la quête en cours de l’édification nationale”. Il n’est pas rare de trouver aujourd’hui chez les jeunes américains une sorte de nostalgie des Beats et de leur époque.

Tandis que l’importance de Tanger pour plusieurs figures de la beat generation a toujours été reconnue, la nature du rôle de la ville n’a pas été tout à fait comprise et énoncée. Paul Bowles, qui avait choisi d’y demeurer juste après la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, y avait involontairement attiré un certain nombre de ces figures, même si sa vision esthétique contraste fortement avec celle de la plupart d’entre elles. A Tanger, William S. Burroughs (avec l'aide d'Allen Ginsberg) a assemblé son chef-d'œuvre Le Festin nu. Brion Gysin, Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac et d'autres associés aux Beats ont séjourné maintes fois dans cette ville. Tanger a également exercé sa force d’attraction sur les "Beats tardifs" comme Ira Cohen, Marc Schleiffer, Irving Rosenthal, Charles Wright et Alfred Chester.

Le fait de susciter un tel débat réorientera probablement notre réflexion sur ce phénomène littéraire/culturel, en inaugurant de nouvelles approches, critiques et perspicaces. Parmi les sujets qui pourraient être abordés de façon profitable dans ce contexte, on pourrait citer : l’effet des Beats sur Tanger, le legs des Beats à Tanger, interaction entre les particuliers marocains et les Beats, les Beats dans le contexte de l’Indépendance marocaine, Tanger et les Beats dans le contexte de la politique américaine des années 50, le rôle des femmes (ou son absence), et la place des Beats dans le contexte historique plus large des relations européo-américano-marocaines.

Les contributions peuvent être axées sur des figures particulières ou des textes, des entreprises théoriques saillantes, ou des questions historiques/culturelles plus larges. Les réponses sous forme de création à cette question seront également les bienvenues. Les participants sont ainsi appelés à examiner les limites de ce paradigme en termes à la fois théoriques, réels et expérimentaux.


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Department of European Languages, University of Aberystwyth, UK

Cinémathèque de Tanger - Tanger, Morocco

Embassy of The United States in Rabat, Morocco

Instituto Cervantes - Tanger, Morocco

International Centre for Performance Studies, Tangier, Morocco

La Ville de Tanger

Middle East Center, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, USA

Moroccan American Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange (MACECE), Rabat, Morocco

Palais Dar Al Makhzen: the Qasbah Museum, Tangier

Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development, The Hague, The Netherlands

Research Group of Performance Studies, Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Morocco

University of London Institute in Paris, France

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Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider



The Screening of the Documentary Film “PAUL BOWLES: THE COMPLETE OUTSIDER”, produced and directed by Catherine Warnow and Regina Weinreich with Q&A (Presented by the co-producer/co-director Regina Weinreich)


In celebration of the documentary’s new release in DVD, I would like to present a screening of PAUL BOWLES: THE COMPLETE OUTSIDER, produced and directed by Catherine Warnow and Regina Weinreich with Q&A for Performing Tangier 2008. The 57-minute award-winning documentary was principally shot in Tangier in 1988, in Paul Bowles’s home, at the market, at the mosque, on the “Mountain,” and at the Café del Hafa. Additional footage was taken in Fez, Marrakech, etc. Paul Bowles talks about his writing and music, Jane Bowles, his relationships artistic and otherwise, his career in New York and his life in Morocco. Mohammed Mrabet and others are interviewed, as well as Ned Rorem, Allen Ginsberg, and Edouard Roditi.

The film premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1994 and was featured at film festivals in the Hamptons, Seattle, London, Turin, Jerusalem, Montreal, and Minsk where it was awarded Grand Prix for Best Documentary in 1995. The film was also screened in Frankfurt as part of a conference focused on the special artistic correspondence between Frankfurt and Tangier.

Biography:

Regina Weinreich is a co-producer/director on the award-winning documentary PAUL BOWLES: THE COMPLETE OUTSIDER and a writer on THE BEAT GENERATION: AN AMERICAN DREAM. The author of the critical study, Kerouac’s Spontaneous Poetics (Southern Illinois University Press, 1987, Thunder’s Mouth, 2003), she edited and compiled Kerouac’s Book of Haikus (Viking, 2003). A leading scholar of the Beat Generation, she has contributed to numerous essay collections and literary journals including The Paris Review, Five Points, and The Review of Contemporary Fiction. As a journalist, her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Village Voice, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Talk Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, American Book Review, Hamptons Magazine, The Forward, The East Hampton Star, among others. She is a Professor in Humanities & Sciences at The School of Visual Arts in New York.


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Keynote Speakers

Conference Salon, Chellah Hotel, 2007


Dr Dwight Reynolds, Senior Professor of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. From 1991-2001 Dr Reynolds presented over 60 concerts with the UCSB Middle Ensemble including performances in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, at the International Sharq Taronalari (Songs of the East) music festival, August 22-September 3, 1999, and multiple performances in Berkeley, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Mendicino, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Tucson (AZ), and Washington DC. He is author of Arab Folklore: A Handbook (2008), section editor for The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: the Post-Classical Period; co-editor of The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 6: The Middle East; editor and co-author of Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition (2001); and author of Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition (1995).

"Back and Forth across the Straits: the Early Formation of Andalusian Music"

This presentation offers new insights into the early formation of Andalusian music by tracing the trajectories of musicians and musical instruments back and forth across the Straits of Gibraltar drawing on evidence from medieval Arabic texts and a variety of iconographic sources. The image that emerges from careful study of the early centuries is of a vibrant musical culture exposed to influences from many different directions which valued innovation and experimentation. In addition, the sources demonstrate the close affinity between the music of al-Andalus and North Africa for many centuries, but also confirm that these regions had developed distinct styles by the late Middle Ages.


Dr Mohamed Laamiri, Associate professor at the Institut des Etudes Africaines, Rabat. His research has been focused on British writings on Morocco with a special interest in travel writings and captivity tales dealing with North Africa. He has published many articles in English, French and Arabic mostly dealing with the image of Morocco and North Africa in British Writings. He is co-editor (with Sara Mills) of a special issue on Morocco in the electronic journal Working Papers on The Web at Sheffield Hallam. Currently he is working on a book on Morocco in British Writings and on a project on North African literature in English. Proposed paper “Tangier’s City-Space between Colonial History and Tourist Geography.”



Mr Jonathan Curiel, staff writer with the San Francisco Chronicle (CA) USA. He is author of the forthcoming Al' America: The Islamic and Arab Roots of American Culture (The New Press). He has researched Islamic culture as a Reuters Foundation Fellow at Oxford University, and has taught journalism as a Fulbright Scholar at Punjab University in Lahore, Pakistan. As a journalist, he has reported stories from Iran, Pakistan, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Mali. His body of stories on Arabs and Muslims has been honored by Columbia University. Proposed paper: "The Hidden Roots of American Culture: Arab-Islamic Contributions to Blues Music and Beyond".


Dr Deborah Kapchan, Associate Professor of Performance Studies at New York University, USA. She writes on Moroccan art and performance and is the author of Gender on the Market: Moroccan Women and the Revoicing of Tradition (1996) as well as Traveling Spirit Masters: Moroccan Trance Music in the Global Marketplace (2007). Her third book, Poetic Justice: Translating Art and Ideology in Morocco (Contracted with University of Texas Press) is in progress. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fulbright-Hays recipient, as well as a grantee of the American Institute of Maghreb Studies and the Social Science Research Council. Recent articles include: “Talking Trash: Creating Home and Anti-Home in Austin’s Salsa Culture” in American Ethnologist (2006), “A Colonial Relation not my Own: Coming Home to Morocco and France,” in Ethnologia Europaea (2007) and “Nostalgia in Contemporary Moroccan Poetry” in Arte East (2007). Her article “Performing the Festive Sacred in Morocco: Sufi Tourism and The Promise of Sonic Translation” is currently under review with American Anthropologist. Proposed paper: "The Ancestors of Tangier: Abdellah El Gourd, Randy Weston and Trans-Atlantic Narratives of Diaspora".


Dr. Andrew Hussey, cultural historian and biographer, born in Liverpool, UK. He was a Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Wales Aberystwyth and since 2006 he has been the Head of French and Comparative Studies at University of London Institute in Paris. He has written on French social and political movements, particularly the infamous May 1968 riots in France, and the Situationists, headed by Guy Debord and Raoul Vaneigem. He also regularly contributes to The Observer newspaper. More recently he provided the foreword to How to Enjoy Paris in 1842 (2007), written by Francis Hervé. Among his Publications The Inner Scar: The Mysticism Of Georges Bataille (2000); The Game Of War: The Life And Death Of Guy Debord (2001); The Beast At Heaven’s Gate: Georges Bataille And The Art Of Transgression (2006); Paris: The Secret History (2006). Proposed paper: "Paris is About the Last Place: William Burroughs in and out of Tangier".


Dr Allen Hibbard, Professor of English and Director of Middle East Center, Middle Tennessee State University, USA. He is author of Paul Bowles: A Study of the Short Fiction (1993) and Paul Bowles Magic & Morocco (2004) in addition to numerous articles on Jane and Paul Bowles, William S. Burroughs, and Alfred Chester; editor, Conversations with William Burroughs (2000).


Dr Regina Weinreich, Professor of Humanities & Sciences at The School of Visual Arts in New York, USA. She is co-producer/ director of the award-winning documentary Paul Bowles: the Complete Outsider and a writer on The Beat Generation: an American Dream. The author of the critical study, Kerouac's Spontaneous Poetics, she edited and compiled Kerouac's Book of Haikus. A leading scholar of the Beat Generation, she has contributed to numerous essay collections and literary journals including The Paris Review and Five Points. As a journalist, her work has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Village Voice, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Talk Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, American Book Review, Hamptons Magazine, the Forward, the East Hampton Star, among others.

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Dr Susan Gilson Miller, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, where she teaches courses on Moroccan and North African history. She is also Director of the Moroccan Studies Program at Harvard. She writes about Mediterranean cities and is especially interested in their former Jewish quarters. Her most recent book is "The Architecture and Memory of the Minority Quarter in the Muslim Mediterranean City", co-edited with Mauro Bertagnin, Harvard University Press, 2008. Her current project is a general history of Morocco from the urban historical perspective. Proposed paper: "Staging Tangier: Architecture, History, and Memory."

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Borders, Beats, and Beyond: Tangier, May 16 - 19, 2008

Fourth Annual International Forum
Quatrième forum international annual
المنتــــدى الدولـــي الرابــــع
Performing Tangier Tanger Scénique طنجة المشهدية

Performing the city, reorienting the Beats,
and negotiating the future...


Program

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  • Register: from 9am May 16 at Chellah Hotel
  • First event: 11am May 16 at Chellah Hotel
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Keynote Speakers
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The international conference in and of Tangier
:
  • Over 100 presenters and performers: 12+ countries - Africa, Europe, Americas, Asia
  • Brief cultural geographies of Tangier and Tétouan, click here and Ceuta, click here

In memoriam
  • To our friends who passed last year-
Joe McPhillips
Headmaster of the American School of Tangier
and friend of the Beats
--11 June 2007--

Abdellah Jbilou
Tanjawi writer and literary critic
and translator of Mohamed Choukri into Spanish
--31 October 2007--

Vital exchange at the crossroads
  • The conference: performs the city – from the actors on stage to those on the streets, everyone together creating the here-and-the-now; explores borders – empowering the margins, challenging political divides, and stretching our limits; reorients the Beat Generation – searching, resisting and listening anew, half-way around the world and half a century after the sensation began; and most importantly, negotiates the future – asking, what kind of world do we want to live in and how will we create it?
  • “It is a forum that aims at bridging the gap of difference and connecting cultures, as well as reaching across the divide to the Other. The setting of Tangier makes a perfect home for new intercultural encounters that celebrate and honor our essential humanity. It offers a glimmer of hope during a dark time marked by the hegemony of the post 9/11 discourses of horrorism.” --Dr Khalid Amine, Conference Convener


Special events
  • Site-specific performance - Tanger des Peintres: Grey Room to Casabarata. Friday, May 16: 11.00/13.00, Chellah Hotel, click here
  • "The Beats in Tangier" - "Generación Beat y Tángers", "les figures de la beat generation et Tanger", special panels, click here


  • Painters of Tangier. Presented by Tingis edition. From the ages of the XIX through the XX centuries, more than 400 color images, engraved in golden letters in the history book of universal painting, disseminated in the collections of the most prestigious museums of the world. "Le Tanger des Peintres" click here
  • El Tánger de los pintores. Presentado por Tingis edition. Siglos XIX y XX, testimonios de más de 400 pintores, grabados en letras de oro en el libro de historia de los pintores universales, en las colecciones de los más prestigiosos museos del mundo. "Le Tanger des Peintres" click here

  • Le Tanger des Peintres: Présenté par Tingis édition 309 images du XIX et du XXe siècle, témoignages de plus de 400 artistes peintres, gravé en lettres d’or dans le livre de l’histoire de la peinture universelle, disséminés dans les collections des plus prestigieux musées du monde. "Le Tanger des Peintres" click here
  • The screening of the Documentary Film “Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider”, produced and directed by Catherine Warnow and Regina Weinreich with Q&A. Presented by the co-producer/co-director Regina Weinreich, click here
  • Proyección del ducumental “Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider”, producido y dirigido por Catherine Warnow y Regina Weinreich con Q&A. Presentado por Regina Weinreich, click here
  • La projection pour la première fois à Tanger du Film Documentaire "Paul Bowles: the Complete Outsider." Avec la présence de Dr. Regina Weinreich co-producer/ director, click here

  • The screening of the Documentary Film "Let it Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles", directed by Jennifer Baichwal. The film features the final meeting of Ginsberg, Burroughs and Bowles (in New York City 1995), and interviews in Tangier with Bowles, Cherifa, Choukri, Herbert, McPhillips, and more. Award winning film; shot during 1994-96. This is its first screening in Tangier - by special arrangement with the director, click here
  • "A Tale of Tangier: Conversations with Ghosts", Performance art by Michael Thorne, Keeley McDonnell and Rebekka Kill, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, click here
  • "Un cuento de Tánger: Conversaciones con fantasmas”, Performance art con Michael Thorne, Keeley McDonnell y Rebekka Kill, Universidad Metropolitana de Leeds, UK, click here
  • "TANGIER 2008: Criss-Crossed GLANCES", Presented by the Cinematographic and Audio-visual Research Group at the Faculty of Letters, Tetouan. It is a question of presenting figures of present-day Tangier, not necessarily of famous people, but marginalized figures, alive and often ignored by research and other forms of representation. This work will be completed by the studentsof the University who will be supervised by Professor Hamid Aïdouni responsible of the Research Group.
  • "TANGIER 2008: Criss-Crossed GLANCES". Presentado por el Grupo de Investigación Audiovisual y cinematográfica de la Facultad de Letras de Tetuán. Es el resultado de captar personas de la vida diaria de Tánger, no necesariamente gente famosa, sino personas marginadas, vivas y con frecuencia ignoradas tanto por la investigación como por otras formas de representación. Este trabajo será completado por los estudiantes de la Universidad quienes serán dirigidos por el profesor Hamid Aïdouni responsable del Grupo de investigación.
  • TANGER 2008: REGARDS CROISES : Présenté par le Groupe de Recherches, d'Essais Cinématographiques et Audiovisuels, facult é des Lettres, Tetouan. Il s'agit de présenter des figures du Tanger actuel, pas nécessairement des gens connus, mais des du Tanger profond, vivant et souvent ignoré par les études et recherches sur les imaginaires de Tanger. Ce travail sera réalisé par les étudiants de l'Université qui seront encadrés par Professeur Hamid Aïdouni responsable du Groupe de Recherches, d'Essais Cinématographiques et Audiovisuels, Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Abdelmalek Essaadi Université.
  • Musical Performance by Katharina Franck, of the "Rainbirds" and solo artist, view the poster and get more information, click here and here





  • Randy Weston, jazz great, in concert, view the poster and get more information, click here

  • "Nuevos Horizontes en hacer que nuetras voces se oigan," by Jose Luis Delgado Guitart, click here

  • "A Shared Wind", Marjorie Kanter will read a selection, inspired in Tangier and the area surrounding it, from her writings, click here
  • Guided tour of the Qasbah & the Medina offered by Rachid Tafersiti (President of Al-Boughaz Association) and Abdel-Aziz Idrissi (Curator of the Qasbah Museum).
  • Inaugural panel featuring: Mustapha Bennouna, President of Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Tangier; Gottfried Haas, German Ambassador, Rabat; Mitchell Cohn, Cultural Attachee, American Embassy, Rabat ; Andrew Hussey, Dean of the University of London Institute, Paris; José Manuel Toledo Jordan, Director, Instituto Cervantes, Tangier ; Wolfgang Meissner, Goethe-Institut, Rabat/Casablanca; José Manuel Goñi Pérez, Representative of the University of Aberystwyth, UK; Allen Hibbard, Director of the Middle East Centre at MTSU, USA ; Khalid Amine, President of the International Centre for Performance Studies, Tangier.
  • Closing ceremonies: presentation of the annual Performing Tangier Prize (read about the 2008 winner, click here) and announcement of the central themes (to view draft proposal, click here) and dates for Performing Tangier 2009.

Conference details
  • Languages: Arabic, Tamazight, French, Spanish, and English. There are no facilities for simultaneous translations.
  • Morning sessions will feature keynote speakers. Afternoon sessions will sometimes utilize two simultaneous panels. The conference will occupy a variety of cultural spaces in the city.
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  • All aspects of the conference administration, programming, participation, and publishing are determined solely at the discretion of the organizing committee whose decisions are final.
  • The organizing committee serves as the jury in selecting papers for the conference published proceedings. Unfortunately, due to the rapid growth in participation, funds are not available to accept all submitted works.
Conference partners
  • This conference would not be possible without the generosity of cash, service and in-kind contributions from our many partners.
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Special thanks to our major contributors
  • The Embassy of the United States, Rabat
  • The Moroccan American Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange (MACECE), Rabat
  • Research Group of Performance Studies at Abdelmalek Essaadi University
  • University of Aberystwyth (UK)
  • University of London Institute in Paris
  • MEC at Middle Tennessee State University (USA)
  • Ministry of Culture of Morocco
  • La Wilaya de Tanger
  • Instituto Cervantes (Tangier)
  • Goethe Institute, Deutsch-Marokkanische Gesellschaft Nord
  • La Commune Urbaine de la Ville de Tanger
  • La Région de Tanger-Tétouan
  • Cap Radio Tanger, Chellah Hotel
  • Group Imran al-Boughaz
  • Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development

And a special note of thanks to
  • Mme Touria JABRANE KRAYTIF (Ministre de la Culture)
  • Mr Mahamed HASSAD (Wali de la Région Tanger-Tetouan)
  • Mr Abdelhadi BENALLAL (Président de la région Tanger-Tetouan)
  • Mr Dahman DERHAM (Mire de la ville de Tanger)
  • Mr Abdelmoula SAMIR (Directeur général de Cap radio Tanger)



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  • The Theater Troupe Académa in Marrakech presents the 3rd annual International Meetings of Theater of Marrakech RITM 3, November 3-7, 2009: click here
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  • AIMS announces 2009-2010 Fellows (grants for US Americans and North Africans) for more information, click here
  • New ICPS website under construction, take a look: click here
  • ICPS mourns the loss of our wonderful friend, Lesley Gilb Taplin. News story, click here; statement from Khalid Amine, ICPS President, click here; service to remember and celebrate her life scheduled for the evening of April 30th in Los Angeles; May conference to honor her memory, click here
  • The Fulbright Scholar competition for 2010-2011 is open - deadline: August 1, 2009. U.S. citizenship is required. For more information, click here and/or send a request for materials to scholars@cies.iie.org
  • Cultural Morocco Mourns for Abdelkébir Khatibi, click here
  • New travel grants and paper prize from AIMS, click here
  • Khalid Amine, ICPS President, has recently returned to Tangier following 6 months conducting research in Berlin. To see a photo of him ghosting with the Brechts, click here
  • Performing Tangier 2009 - full participation information and preliminary program announcements, click here
  • Another conference opportunity follows Performing Tangier 2009: "Saharan Crossroads: Views from the North", Tangier June 6 - 8, for info click here
  • ICPS needs your individual and institutional memberships, click here
  • ICPS offers student mentoring and collaborative referrals for lecturers, researchers, artists, etc. Please email the webmasters or Dr Amine - we want your collaboration
  • ICPS needs your suggestions of interested people and institutions, etc. Please email the webmasters or Dr Amine - we need more email contacts, listserves, partners
  • ICPS needs your news (lectures, publications, etc.) video links and photo links (i.e. past ICPS events) Please email the webmasters or Dr Amine any contributions
  • Youtube video trailers and new book from Performing Tangier 2008:
    • Audio-visual conference montage, click here
    • Video trailer: "Tanger des Peintres Grey Room to Casabarata" click here
    • Conference proceedings (volume 1): Bowles, Beats, Tangier, click here

    New books from ICPS:

  • Tangier at the crossroads, edited by Barry Tharaud, José Manuel Goni Peréz and George F. Roberson





  • The Red Fire by Zoubeir Ben Bouchta. Translated from Arabic to English by Mustapha Hilal Soussi, more information, click here






المسرح الحديث - إشراقات واختيارات
by Hassan Mniai, click here








  • Jonathon Curiel's new book, Al' America, is now available and has been selected for an American Book Award by The Before Columbus Foundation. Curiel was a keynote speak at Performing Tangier 2008, for reviews and more information, click here










  • No Man's Land: A play by the Moroccan playwright Mohammed Kaouti, published by the Ministry of Culture feb 2009. Cover page and author's statement, clik here







      • المسرح والحداثة a new book by Hassan Yousfi, click here



      • New books by the Tanjawi writer Zoubeir Benbouchta, click here












      Retrospectives 2008

      Participants statements, click here


      French Rapport de la conférence, click here

      التقرير بالعربية - Report in Arabic, click here

      Statements of Achievements, click here

      Performing Tangier Prize, click here
      Randy Weston concert photos, click here


      Autographed Katharina Franck concert ticket, click here

      Materials 2008
      Online program, click
      here
      Print full program, click
      here
      Keynote speakers bios, click
      here
      Attendee list, click
      here
      Weston - Franck concert poster, click
      here

      Additional media, click here

      Full media clips, click here

      Conference poster, click here
      Closing ceremony photo montage, click
      here




      Cultural Diversity Conference
      Tetouan, click
      here










      Jazz great in Tangier
      Randy Weston returns to Tangier and visits ICPS, click
      here














      Recent ICPS Publications

      New titles, links to additional details,
      and ordering information,

      see below












      • NEW Bowles Beats Tangier, conference proceedings with a forward by Allen Hibbard and co-edited by Barry Tharaud, click here







      • Shakespeare Lane, by Zoubeir Ben Bouchta, translated by Rajae Khaloufi, edited by George Roberson, click here











      • الفرجة والتنوع الثقافي: مقاربة متعددة الاختصاصات, by Hassan Mniai









      • ويبقى الإبداع by Hassan Mniai, click here





      Beyond Brecht, by Khalid Amine, click here





      Lalla J'mila, by Zoubeir Ben Bouchta, translated by Mustapha Hilal Soussi, co-edited by Pamela Balfanz and George F. Roberson, click here









      • Theatrical Art and the Myth of Origin: Fields of Silence, by Khalid Amine, click here



      To order books, contact:

      Mustapha Hilal Sousi
      ICPS Archivist
      email: mhsousi (at) yahoo (dot) com




      To return to the ICPS welcome page, click here