Required

• Malek Alloula, excerpts from The Colonial Harem
• Barbara Harlow, "Introduction" to Malek Alloula, The Colonial Harem (x-xvi)
• Rana Kabbani, Preface to Imperial Fictions: Europe’s Myths of Orient

Recommended

Morocco

• "Morocco" (Encyclopedia Britannica Online) (HSU users only)
• Images of daily life in Morocco (James Miller, Clemson U)

Moroccan and Maghrebi Literature

• "An Introduction to the Literature of the Maghreb" by the Maghrebi Studies Group of the Comparative Literature Department at SUNY-Binghamton. See also:
  • Francophone Literature of Morocco

Fatema Mernissi

• Fatema Mernissi official website
• Fatima Mernissi page (MSANews, the Muslim Student Association News Service, Ohio State University) (extensive though badly organized)

More on Maghrebi Feminism

• Lahoucine Ouzgane, review essay of Leila Ahmed's Women and Gender in Islam (Postmodern Culture 3:3 [1993]) (HSU users only)
• S. Charusheela, excerpts from Leila Ahmed's Women and Gender in Islam (femecon-l discussion forum post)
• Fatima Mernissi, "Preface" to The Veil and the Male Elite
• "Women, Islam, and Hijab" (Poscolonial Studies, Emory University)
• Nathalie Galesne and Alessandra D'Assaro, "Primary Targets: An Interview with Algerian Feminists" (Samia Kouider and Djezia Ben).  From WIN: Women's International Net 6A (February 1998)

Miscellany

• The Thousand and One Nights, whose narrator, Scheherezade, figures prominently in Dreams of Trespass (Wikipedia)
• Asmahan, the Lebanese singer who is the subject of Chapter 12 (and first appears in Chapter 1): the site includes free music and video downloads, including the song "Ahwa"