Ikhtilaf, Journal of Critical Humanities and Social Studies
ISSN 2509-1743
ISSN (Print) 2509-1751
Issue#2, Fall 2019
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Addressing Extremism and Terror: Critical Humanities in an Age of Confusion

Untitled by Elyazid Kharbache
Feature Articles
- Addressing Extremism: Theatre and Critical Humanities (Sabine Coelsch-Foisner University of Saltzburg, Austria)
- Reclaiming Public Space to fight Alienation and Extremism Through Art and Culture (Larbi Touaf Université Mohammed Premier, Oujda)
- Addressing Extremism Through Literature: An Online Cross-Cultural Conversation on Mahi Binebine’s Horses of God (Habiba Boumlik and Phyllis Van Slyck, City University of New York LaGuardia Community College, NY)
- “Always the border, (…) you belong here, you don’t!” Moroccan students at Universities in Germany (Dr. Ute Kiefer)
Special Section: Creative writing
Book reviews
- The dead-end of Political Islam: ……… Review of Hassan Aourid’s “Al-Islam Assiyassi fi al-Mizane- halat Al-Maghrib” (Political Islam in Question, the Case of Morocco).Tusna, 2016. (Soumia Boutkhil, Université Mohammed Premier, Oujda)
- “Riding the wave of fear, The rise of The Islamophobia Industry.” …….. Review of Nathan Lean’s The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims. Pluto Press, 2012. ( Oussama Boutehol & Larbi Touaf, Université Mohammed Premier, Oujda)
- Politics of Trolling, Alt-Right’s insidious extremism .. Review of George Hawley’s Making Sense of the Alt-Right. Columbia University Press, 2017. (Hicham Tizaoui & Larbi Touaf, Université Mohammed Premier, Oujda)
- The West’s Eternal Muslim Monsters …….. Review of Sophia Rose Arjana’s Muslims in the Western Imagination. Oxford University Press, 2015.(Imad Youssefi & Larbi Touaf, Université Mohammed Premier, Oujda)
- The Forty Rules of Love . Review of Elif Shafak’s The Forty Rules of Love (Penguin Books, 2015.) (Soumia Ben Rochd, Université Ibn Zohr, Agadir )
Special Section: (Art) Tribute to Elyazid Kharbache
Issue#1, Fall 2017.
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The environment is us: humanities and the ecological crisis
Editorial (Larbi Touaf & Chourouq Nasri)
Feature Articles
- Traumatized Ecology: Ecocritical Study of Scholastique Mukasonga’s writing (Richard Oko Ajah PhD)
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s North to the Orient: An Account of an Aviator’s Emerging Environmental Consciousness (Rinni Haji Amran)
- Women, the environment, and the ability to act in Morocco: gentle effervescence (Soumia Boutkhil)
- An Ecocritical Reading of Poetry from India’s Northeast (Neeraj Sankyan & Suman Sigroha)
- Poetry As Resistance: An Ecocritical Reading Of Sameh Derouich’s Haiku (Chourouq Nasri)
- Recalibrating the Humanities for the Times: New Humanities 3.0 and Climate Change Denialism (Uzoma Chukwu)
- Disposable Culture? Worse: Disposable Culture (Mostafa Shoul)
- (مصير البيئة في مأدبة السياسة – (يوسف أشلحي
Book Reviews
- -Demos, T.J., Decolonising Nature, Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology, Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2016. (Reviewed by Maria Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou)
- –Lesley Head. Hope and Grief in the Anthropocene: Re-conceptualising human-nature relations. London: Routledge (Routledge Research in the Anthropocene Series), 2016. (Reviewed by Nancy Smith)