Maroon 3198.udith Butler, J Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative (London:
Routledge, 1997); Elizabeth Grosz, Space, Time, and Perversion (London:
Routledge, 1995); Lauren Berlant, The Queen of America Goes to
Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship (Durham, NC: Duke
University Press, 1997).
9.s an American researcher working in the field during the first year of the A
American-led “global war on terror,” a necessary component of gaining
people’s trust was to guarantee their anonymity in published articles. All
names in this article have therefore been changed.
10.t is incumbent upon every Muslim with physical and financial capacity to I
make a pilgrimage to Mecca at some point in their lifetime. This pilgrimage
is called the hajj. Completing the journey to Mecca and the performance of
rituals during the hajj warrants the bestowal of Hajj on participants upon
their return home.
- I would argue that the perception of technology in contemporary Morocco
has its roots in the role that the modern reform movement, which began in
the late nineteenth century, played in the country’s indigenous political and
religious landscape throughout French occupation and into the first decade
of postcolonialism. The father of the reform movement, Egyptian-born
Mohammad ‘Abduh, characterized invention as part of science, declaring
that “God’s wisdom may be fulfilled and the order of the human world pre-
served; and to prove that, seen in this light, religion must be accounted
a friend to science, pushing man to investigate the secrets of existence
summoning him to respect established truths and to depend on them in
his moral life and conduct.” Albert Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples
(New York: Warner Books, 1991), 308.
12.s quote is taken from one of several interviews with a friend and infor- Thi
mant, Mahjoud Khachai, an unemployed journalist in his forties. While
some interviews were conducted in Dreeja (Moroccan Arabic) and French,
this particular quote was offered in English by Mahjoud, who speaks five
different languages in all.
13.hortly after the introduction of the Family Law Reform Act in 2000, a S
piece of legislation spearheaded by Mohammad VI, there was a small
march in Rabat by 20,000 supporters of the bill. In Casablanca, how-
ever, over 200,000 Moroccan men and women filled the streets with
signs and shouts of protest against the bill. The legislation—in a severely