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perceptions of the writers and their origins. This paper will shed the light on the representation of Morocco in western travel writers’ texts in the early 20thcentury. The particular focus is on Adalbert Stenberg’s work “The Barbarians of Morocco’ in which he describes his fabulous experience among different people…

governmentally involved enough to make a very positive difference. In 1901, a new Sultan came to rule Morocco, who immediately adopted the European way of life, which appalled many of his subjects. This gave European powers an opportunity to gain even more power. In fact, by 1912, France had established a protectorate over most of Morocco, which was the first time in over 1000 years that Morocco had not been independent. Though Morocco’s Sultan was supposedly sovereign, it was the newly…

distinguish between what French colonialists claimed, and what has been really done in the reality. No doubt, what French authorities have done illustrates a general idea about the French colonial ideology that was conveyed especially to colonize Morocco. We have seen another methods of colonizing which the colonialist adopted, grasping the bad experiences, and benefiting from science as an alternative way of domination. The colonial ideology obviously claimed that they were on a "civilizing…

Travel narratives about Morocco constitute an inextricable part of the discursive practices that created and maintained an ontological and epistemological construction of Morocco that made it fit in the homogenous and monolithic Orient. Therefore, one way of proving such a claim is by questioning the image of Morocco and the way the country has been identified from a Western perspective based on a body of produced knowledge, particularly travel narratives, and thus the subject of this essay.…

As consequence of this exile “Mohammad V appealed to the rural local armies which had once posed a threat to his rule by organizing them around the issue of Moroccan nationalism.” Furthermore, he kept on building alliances “using pre-existing colonial structures and appeals to the rural elite.” In that event and upon independence, the now King Mohammad V attained total control from the French colonial regime. The monarchy as the utter representative of the institution already benefited from…

SAMIR Moroccan and Italian refining, started in 1959 as a limited company. Represented by the "Office of Studies and Industrial Portfolio" and "Italian petroleum board." It were the first crude oil distribution unit has a capacity of 1.25 million tons per year. The company becomes Moroccan entirely in 1973. In 1996 made its IPO in the Casablanca Stock Exchange. In 1997 privatization and transfer of 67.27% stake in Corral group. SAMIR Company has a 10 tons per year refining capacity. A storage…

Morocco- The Country that Makes the Soul Grow In the 7th and 8th century, the Arab invasion of Africa prompted the first predominant Muslim dynasty which triggered a domino effect that resulted in Morocco. In 1884, Spain officially started protecting the lands that would soon be known as Morocco. When France became the protectorate of Morocco through the Treaty of Fez in 1912, there was a rebellion shortly after and lead by the Istiqual. Eventually in 1956, the French were removed as the…

in her visit to Morocco and how she contributed to western production of knowledge about the other. It studies travel writing that reveals the imperial intentions of the west where an interaction between cultures occur to give each of the empires a certain position , through colonial discourse the paper shall study the travel narrative to show how travel narratives took part in the western discovery of the non-western other. It will analyze Edith Wharton's travel narrative In Morocco(1920) to…

First, the Berbers migrated to Morocco around the 3rd and 2nd millennia BCE. They were thought to have originated in Asia. Later, the Greeks and Phoenicians devised trading ports on the cost of Morocco, until the Romans conquered. While the Romans were in power, many of the Berbers rebelled and the reaction of the Romans was to cut out their tongues and ship them off to the Canary Islands, where they were later found by the Spanish. The Carthaginians were also in Morocco before the Romans. After…

II. The Impact of French Colonialism on Moroccan Culture. It may be wrong thinking that the colonized countries in general have been entirely independent. Many years passed since morocco gets its independence, but the impact of colonization is still nowadays with its effects on Morocco in several sides including culture. However, the image of superiority, modernity, and civilization of France has deeply saved in Moroccan memories. We cannot deny our dependence to the colonizer whether culturally…