Theorizing the histories of colonialism and nationalism in the Arab Maghrib / Edmund Burke III -- The Arab folklorist in a postcolonial period / Abderrahman -- The Moroccan colonial soldiers : between selective memory and collective memory / Driss Maghraoui -- Identity and alienation in postcolonial Libyan literature : the trilogy of Ahmad Ibrahim al-Faqih / Ali Abdullatif Ahmida -- Cartographies of identity : writing Maghribi women as postcolonial subjects / Mona Fayad -- Shadi Abd al-Salam's al-Mumiya : ambivalence and the Egyptian nation-state / Elliot Colla -- Islamism and the recolonization of Algeria / Marnia Lazreg -- Economic reform and Tunisia's hegemonic party : the end of the administrative elite / Stephen J. King -- Dreams and disappointments : postcolonial constructions of "The Maghrib" / David Seddon.