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The Maghrib at the dawn of the twenty-first century / Benjamin Stora --A Half-century after independence : rethinking Maghribi history, memory, and identity. The (re)fashioning of Moroccan national identity / Mickael Bensadoun -- Algerian identity and memory / Robert Mortimer -- Berber/Amazigh "memory work" / Bruce Maddy-Weitzman -- Regimes and societies : new challenges. Reflections on the aftermath of civil strife : Algeria, 2006 / Gideon Gera -- The fate of political Islam in Algeria / Louisa At-Hamadouche and Yahia H. Zoubir -- From Hasan II to Muhammad VI : plus ca change? / Daniel Zisenwine -- Justice and development or justice and spirituality? : the challenge of Morocco's nonviolent Islamist movements / Michael J. Willis -- Whither the Ben Ali Regime in Tunisia? / Michele Penner Angrist -- The economic dimension. The constraints on economic development in Morocco and Tunisia / Paul Rivlin -- Algeria's economy : mutations, performance, and challenges / Ahmed Aghrout and Michael Hodd -- The Maghrib and Europe. The Maghrib abroad : immigrant transpolitics and cultural involution in France / Paul A. Silverstein

This symposium examines the politics of religious alliances. While the literature on religion and politics generally focuses ondifferencesacross individuals, congregations, denominations, or traditions, these articles instead ask how, when, and why religious groups do — and do not — form alliances with other organizations, both religious and secular. Specifically, this collection of original research examines the formation of multi-denominational coalitions among party activists, litigants, and religious leaders. These varied articles arose from a workshop at Oxford University in March 2015, an event hosted and funded by the Rothermere American Institute. The collection explores the impact of religious coalitional activity upon political attitudes, decision-making, and public policy development. It is wide-ranging, extending our understanding of religious coalitional activity beyond the United States and dealing with topics of vital current significance, including the swiftly changing landscape of school voucher and tax credit expansion, same-sex marriage, healthcare, and abortion advocacy.

AbstractFollowing the 2007 war between Fatah and Hamas, Palestinian politics appears to have followed the regional trend where the competition between secularism and Islamism is developing into a major political cleavage. Through comparisons of the two movements' ideologies, however, the article questions the relevance of this religious-secular cleavage to explaining Palestinian factional politics. Fatah — the traditional hegemon in Palestinian politics and previously staunchly secularist — has turned increasingly religious in response to the spread of Islamism. Hamas for its part has shed its overly religious rhetoric, absolutist territorial claims, and insistence on a violent solution to the Palestinian problem, in tandem with the deradicalization of the Palestinian population. In finding that both movements have moved toward the center of the political spectrum to maximize support, the article concludes that their rivalry is best understood as a competition for the median voter rather than as an indication of political polarization.

The Secular State Under Siege: Religion and Politics in Europe and America. By Christian Joppke (Cambridge and Malden: Polity 2015).

Papers presented at a seminar organized at Jawaharlal Nehru University on Mar., 2007.