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The advent of satellite television and its adoption in the Maghreb brought about a profound social change. This book, which explores the relationships between the media and the public sphere, shows that the simple and quotidian act of watching satellite television as opposed to national television mobilizes novel ways of expressing identities along with a range of critical positions targeting political regimes. By bringing certain topics hitherto hardly present to the center of homes, the media reveals the pivotal functions of gender relations, which are today at the heart of social and political matters in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.Based on extensive fieldwork, this book offers a unique interpretation of the use of satellite television in authoritarian contexts and contributes to a better understanding of the media and the political public sphere. The book will interest teachers and students in communication, political studies, gender studies, sociology and anthropology of the Arab worlds and the Mediterranean.

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The Mzab region in the Algerian south has seen numerous clashes between the Mozabite and Arab communities. The most important of these were in 2013–2015. This article considers these clashes as an expression of the problematic of integrating the Saharan regions into the Algerian national fabric, and its interlocking with the end of a political cycle, which has tended to obscure the emergence of new generations of actors. It proposes that these intercommunal conflicts belong to the conjunction between these macro-level dimensions and much more everyday levels, which serve as the substrate not only of the realization of the clashes but also of their justification. The article documents how the ordinary, where the distance between the groups is marked in the everyday, is mobilized in the demands for a "just" state; and how, in the slow unfolding and production of clashes, the state becomes at once their invisibilized third term and their center.

La littérature existante sur le thème des diasporas est aujourd'hui très abondante, et elle remet en question la manière dont cette notion était traditionnellement définie. Accompagnant le développement accéléré des mouvement migratoires qui s'opèrent conjointement avec les formes de la globalisation économique, cette littérature met désormais en cause un ensemble de définitions concernant les communautés diasporiques, en soulignant par là les difficiles questions de la formation, de la transformation et du maintien de l'identité culturelle. Elle remet également en question la place et le rôle du politique, en mettant en jeu le rapport entre territoire et ommunauté.

This paper examines the question of how first‐generation Muslim women in Canada respond to and interpret dominant representations of themselves. The goal is to consider the positionalities of these women, pointing out the importance of their interpretive capabilities. It discusses the displacement that they experience as being due in part to stereotypes which situate them as "Other," the dynamics of their own communities and their own beliefs.Cet article examine comment les femmes musulmanes de première génération au Canada répondent aux représentations qui leur sont données d'elles‐mêmes et comment elles les interprètent. Il s'agit de rendre compte des positions prises par ces femmes et de comprendre comment, dans la parole et l'action, elles opèrent un déplacement non seulement par rapport aux stéréotypes qui les situent comme l'Autre, mais aussi par rapport à leurs groupes d'appartenance ainsi qu'à leurs propres croyances.

The new questions raised by the introduction of satellite television in Third World countries are crucial and require reflections that go beyond an analysis of the media per se. What is public space? What are the loci and relations that connect media to social movements? Are media transformed by the new public spaces? What meaning is to be given to the notion of community? This article starts by discussing the context in which satellite television has been developed in Algeria. Then it discusses the processes of organization that satellite television produced, as well as the consequences of these processes for the conception of emerging public spaces. Finally, it examines the meanings of the use of satellite television with respect to the problematic of identity and the nature of mediation.