CRIA

"There was never a mellah in Casablanca!" - The mellah and the jewish quarters of Morocco

public.project.responsible_investigator_cria: Nuno Mora

public.project.research_group: Circulation and Place-Making

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Jews | Muslims | Cities | Transnationalism

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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)

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01-08-2020

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31-07-2024

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SFRH/BD/146573/2019

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Starting from a work focused on the Jewish quarters and neighborhoods of Casablanca and Meknès, the aim of this project is to investigate the ways of access to urban space, the strategies of cohabitation, contact and conflict, that occur in urban spaces, between Jews and Muslims in Morocco. In particular, this research seeks to interrogate the modifications imposed on Jewish quarters and neighborhoods that occurred with the changing of the historical circumstances that dictated their existence, as well as the creation of new neighborhoods during the colonial period.

"There was never a mellah in Casablanca!" - The mellah and the jewish quarters of Morocco

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Ahmed Skounti (Institut Nationale des Sciences de l'Archéologie et du Patrimoine de Marrocos)

Cyril Isnart (IDEMEC)

Full members

Maria Cardeira da Silva