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Presentation of a “History of Morocco”
May 24, 20177:00 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62).
7:00 p.m.
Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
In Spanish.
Historian María Rosa de Madariaga is presenting her most recent work at Casa Árabe.
At the event, Madariaga, a doctor of History from the University of Paris I, will be accompanied by Bernabé López García, a doctor of Arabic and Islam from the University of Granada and department head of History of Contemporary Islam at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and Miguel Hernando de Larramendi, a tenured professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at the School of Humanities in Toledo, which forms part of the University of Castile-La Mancha. Presented and moderated by: Pedro Villena, General Director of Casa Árabe.
Contrary to what the dominant historical discourse has led us to believe, Morocco’s existence cannot be understood only in light of its independence in 1956. With centuries of history behind it, it is a country with a long-standing past of relations both in Africa and with European states. Morocco’s territory has been subject to conquests and become a site of settlement for a large number of population groups since remote times. Starting in the twelfth century B.C., Phoenicians, Carthaginians and Romans passed through, many long before Islam appeared on the scene. The Arab conquest in the eighth century A.D. began a shifting of borders which would later determine the history of this territory, changes which caused these borders to reach as far as the gates of France (within the context of conquest of the Iberian Peninsula), then being pushed back and forth within the country’s own territory, leading to the advent of dissident groups and the creation of internal divisions. A series of dynasties and the growth of large cities such as Fez, Marrakesh, Casablanca and Rabat, have formed the framework for development of a history which takes us back to colonial allocations and rivalries, the establishment of the Spanish and French Protectorates in 1912, with the decisive role played by Marshal Lyautey, and the advent of World War II, eventually leading to Morocco’s independence in 1956 and the successive reigns of the Alawite dynasty.
Contrary to what the dominant historical discourse has led us to believe, Morocco’s existence cannot be understood only in light of its independence in 1956. With centuries of history behind it, it is a country with a long-standing past of relations both in Africa and with European states. Morocco’s territory has been subject to conquests and become a site of settlement for a large number of population groups since remote times. Starting in the twelfth century B.C., Phoenicians, Carthaginians and Romans passed through, many long before Islam appeared on the scene. The Arab conquest in the eighth century A.D. began a shifting of borders which would later determine the history of this territory, changes which caused these borders to reach as far as the gates of France (within the context of conquest of the Iberian Peninsula), then being pushed back and forth within the country’s own territory, leading to the advent of dissident groups and the creation of internal divisions. A series of dynasties and the growth of large cities such as Fez, Marrakesh, Casablanca and Rabat, have formed the framework for development of a history which takes us back to colonial allocations and rivalries, the establishment of the Spanish and French Protectorates in 1912, with the decisive role played by Marshal Lyautey, and the advent of World War II, eventually leading to Morocco’s independence in 1956 and the successive reigns of the Alawite dynasty.
Madariaga has a bachelor’s degree in
Philosophy and Letters from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, a
diploma in Arabic Language, Literature and Civilization from the
Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) in
Paris and a PhD in History from the University of Paris I
(Panthéon-Sorbonne). After teaching Spanish Language and Civilization at
the University of Paris IV, for years she was an international civil
servant with the Culture Section at UNESCO.
She has authored the works España y el Rif. Crónica de una historia casi olvidada (Spain and the Rif: Chronicle of a nearly forgotten history, third edition, 2008), Los moros que trajo Franco. La intervención de tropas coloniales en la guerra civil (The Moors Brought by Franco: Intervention by colonial troops in the Spanish Civil War, second edition, 2006), En el Barranco del Lobo. Las guerras de Marruecos (At Barranco del Lobo: The wars in Morocco, third edition, 2011), Abd el-Krim el Jatabi. La lucha por la independencia (Abd el-Krim el Khattabi: The fight for independence, 2009) and Marruecos, ese gran desconocido. Breve historia del Protectorado español (Morocco, That Great Unknown: A brief history of the Spanish Protectorate, 2013), as well as numerous articles on the relations between Spain and Morocco published in Spanish and foreign journals, and in collective works. She has also taken part in many Spanish and foreign documentaries about Morocco. In 2015, a new corrected and expanded version of her book The Moors Brought by Franco was published.
She has authored the works España y el Rif. Crónica de una historia casi olvidada (Spain and the Rif: Chronicle of a nearly forgotten history, third edition, 2008), Los moros que trajo Franco. La intervención de tropas coloniales en la guerra civil (The Moors Brought by Franco: Intervention by colonial troops in the Spanish Civil War, second edition, 2006), En el Barranco del Lobo. Las guerras de Marruecos (At Barranco del Lobo: The wars in Morocco, third edition, 2011), Abd el-Krim el Jatabi. La lucha por la independencia (Abd el-Krim el Khattabi: The fight for independence, 2009) and Marruecos, ese gran desconocido. Breve historia del Protectorado español (Morocco, That Great Unknown: A brief history of the Spanish Protectorate, 2013), as well as numerous articles on the relations between Spain and Morocco published in Spanish and foreign journals, and in collective works. She has also taken part in many Spanish and foreign documentaries about Morocco. In 2015, a new corrected and expanded version of her book The Moors Brought by Franco was published.
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