A Novel Idea: 1981 Casablanca & Contemporary Morocco

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Past events in Casablanca put into context for today in this presentation with Dr. Mahmood Ibrahim, Professor Emeritus of History at Cal Poly Pomona. In "The Other Americans," Driss Guerraoui and his family moved to the U.S. in the wake of Casablanca's 1981 protests and unrest. In this presentation, Dr. Ibrahim uses the events in Casablanca to highlight aspects of Moroccan history as a way of explaining the riots and putting them in a contemporary Moroccan context.

Dr. Mahmood Ibrahim taught courses on Islam, the Middle East, and North Africa, as well as history methods and historiography, for undergraduate and graduate students. His special area of research is the medieval period around the Mediterranean Sea; he is currently researching climate conditions in medieval Damascus and working on a biography of Qadi Abu Bakr (1076-1148), Chief Judge of Seville for the Almoravids.

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