CONFERENCE PROGRAM

FLDM-USMBA
in collaboration with
CREDIF Research Laboratory, Fez, Morocco

ORGANIZE

The 1st International Conference on Diaspora

The Moroccan Diasporic and Transnational Experiences:

Space, Media, and Narratives
April 26-27, 2024

For more information, please visit: Venue:

Doctoral Studies Center, USMBA, Fes, Morocco
http://mdte2024.unaux.com/?i=1

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8.30-9:00 Registration

Welcome and Opening Speeches

Dr. Mustapha Ijjaali President of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fes, Morocco
Dr. Khalid Lazaar Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Human Science, Dhar El Mahraz, Fes, Morocco
9:00 - 9:30
Dr. Chakib Tazi Director of CREDIF Research Laboratory, FLDM, USMBA, Fes, Morocco
Dr. A El Bakkali MDTE 2024 Conference Chair, Organizing Committee, FLDM, USMBA, Fes, Morocco
Dr. T. Ghourdou MDTE 2024 Conference Chair, Scientific Committee, FLDM, USMBA, Fes, Morocco

Friday, April 26, 2024

Keynote Speech
Chair: Dr. Tayeb Ghourdou, USMBA, Fes, Morocco

Professor Anouar Majid

10:00 We Are All Harraga Now
University of New England

10:00 Discussion

10:30 Coffee break

Panel 1
New Definitions in Diasporic Literature, and Narratives
Chair: Dr. Khalid Bekkaoui, USMBA, Fes, Morocco
Echoes of Exile: Identity, Religion, and History in Abdelhamid Bajouki's Literary Abdelaziz El Amrani
11:00-11:15 Corpus UAE, Tetouane, Morocco

The Diasporic Feminine Body in Laila Lalami’s Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits: Said Abdellaoui
11:15-11:30 Towards Postmodern Selfhoods UMI, Meknes, Morocco
Lecture Piano Recital: Fantasie Negre in E Minor by Florence Price (1887-1953) Meisha Whitlock
11:30-11:45 Furman University, US
Local Diaspora: Writing Home in Mohamed Dellal’s “When the Wind of the Atlas Abdellah El Boubekri
11:45-12:00 Blows” UMP, Oujda, Morocco
Diaspora, Gender and Resistance: Contesting Patriarchal Culture and Reconstructing Nouzha Baba
12:00-12:15 Muslim Identity in Abdelkader Benali’s De Langverwachte LUCAS, Leiden, Netherlands

12:15-12:45 Discussion
 Panel 2
Morocco-Maghrebi Transnational identities
Chair: Dr. Mimoune Daoudi, USMBA, Fes, Morocco
12:45-13:00 The identity Projection of Moroccans and Arabs in the Diaspora in Light of the Abdelaadim Bidaoui
Use of Discourse Makers: A Socio-Pragmatic Perspective Ball State University, US
13:00-13:15 brown decolonial il/literacies in the diaspora: Are Moroccan nonreligious activists Abdelmjid Kettioui
vaccinated against the modern/colonial matrix of power? UMI, Meknes, Morocco
13:15-13:30 Identité linguistique et culture commune: Pratiques de la communauté maghrébine Ahmed Kharraz
à l’étranger Paul Valery Montpellier, France
13:30-13:45 Accented Cinema: Moroccan Women’s Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking Touria Khannous
Louisiana State University, US
Navigating Boundaries: Migrants and the Transnationalization of Morocco’s Saad Alami Merrouni
13:45-14:00 Urban Spheres UMV, Rabat, Morocco

14:00-14:30 Discussion

14:30-15:30 Lunch Break

Panel 3
The Construction of Diasporic Cultural Identity
Chair: Dr. Abdelmjid Kettioui, UMI, Meknes, Morocco
Abdelaziz Jadir
15:30-15:45 ‫ﻟﻌﺒﺔ اﻟﮭﻮﯾﺔ واﻟﻔﻀﺎء واﻟﺬاﻛﺮة ﺑﯿﻦ اﻟﮭﻨﺎ واﻟﮭﻨﺎك‬ Writer and Translator
Morocco
Transnational Threads: Mapping Diasporic Cultural Identity Farida Mokhtari
15:45-16:00 USMBA, Fes, Morocco
Niapégué Sanou
16:00-16:15 The Otherness of the Host Country: Case of Sub-Saharan Africans in Morocco Canadian International School,
Mali
Islam in Diaspora: Moroccan Imams in Belgium and the Negotiation of Religious Hamza Bekkaoui
16:15-16:30 USMBA, Fes, Morocco
Authority
The Moroccan Diaspora in Europe: Shifting from the Context of Migration to the Tijani Boulaouali
16:30-16:45 FTRS, KU Leuven Belgium
Context of Citizenship
Virtual Identity Construction to Accomplish Self-Congruency: An Exploratory Mohamed Achamrah
16:45-17:00 Research Study USMS, Beni Mellal, Morocco

17:00-17:30 Discussion

Panel 4
The Construction of Otherness within Borders and Space
Chair: Dr. Mohamed Bennis, USMBA, Fes, Morocco
Brahim El Aouini
17:30-17:45 Inhabiting Interstitial Space by Moroccan Elites and Dilemmas of
UMP, Oujda, Morocco
Oscillating between Absence and Presence
M. Simó, R. Vilà, A. Aneas
17:45-18:00 Prejudice, Discrimination and Racism of the host society towards University Autonomous of
unaccompanied minor migrants in Barcelona Barcelona, Spain
Silent Suffering: The Unheard Voices of Moroccan Women Left Behind Imane Farsi
18:15-18:30 by Diasporic Husbands -Beni-Mellal Regions as a Case Study USMS, Beni Mellal, Morocco
The Diaspora of Global Education through PBLs and SDGs in One Lori Ann Pawlik
18:30-18:45 CHS Manassas, Virginia, US
Science Classroom
The Representation of North-Moroccan Identity via Orature in Western Zakaria Khatraoui
18:45-19:00 UMP, Oujda, Morocco
Diaspora

19:00-19:30 Discussion
 Saturday, April 27, 2024
Keynote Speech
Chair: Dr. Abdelaaziz El-Bakkali, USMBA, Fes, Morocco
Transnational Thinking and Moroccan Transformations: Professor Nina Morgan
9.00-9.30
Tracing the Changing Minds of 21st Century Moroccans Kennesaw State University, US
9.30-10.00 Discussion
10:00-10.30 Coffee break
Panel 5
Diaspora and Cultural Identities in Cinema
Chair: Dr. Tayeb Ghourdou, USMBA, Fes, Morocco
10:30-10:45 Space-Making in Moroccan Women Diasporic Cinema Mimoune Daoudi
USMBA, Fes, Morocco
10:45-11:00 Navigating Spatial Desires: Home, Diaspora, and Identity in Postcolonial Bouchra Badaoui
Moroccan Cinema UMI, Meknes, Morocco
11:00-11:15 Spaces of Liberation and Libertarianism in Hassan Benjelloun’s Almansiy’oun Moha Boutahir
(2010) USMBA, Fes, Morocco
11:15-11:30 Diaspora through Women’s Eyes: Houda Benyamina’s Devine (2016) Ahmed Touhami Ouazzani
UHII, Mohammedia, Morocco
11:30-11:45 Cross-Border Affinity: The Significance of Homeland Soil in the Burial of Rachid Lamghari
Moroccan-Belgians in Soil (2021) USMBA, Fes, Morocco
11:45-12:15 Discussion

Panel 6
Diaspora in Media and Visual/Digital Arts
Chair: Dr. Kebir Sandy, USMBA, Fes, Morocco
12:15-12:30 Exploring the Multidimensional Roles of Music in the Moroccan Diaspora: A Montassir Hmala
Sociomusicological Study UMV, Rabat, Morocco
12:30-12:45 Transculturalism and the Representation of Moroccan Women in Media: A Rim Idrissi Azami
CDA of Moroccan Series UCD, El Jadida, Morocco
12:45-13:00 Building up Virtual Communities on Cyberspace: Theoretical Reflections on Mohammed Bennis
“Digital Diaspora” USMBA, Fes, Morocco
13:00-13:15 Exploring Moroccan Digital Diaspora Identities: The case of Three Moroccan F. Zahrae Khay, Zineb Rabouj
TikTokers in Spain, France, and Italy USMBA, Fes, Morocco
13:15-13:30 Scrutinizing the Role Diasporic Media in Connecting Moroccan Emigrants to Rania Mjahad
the Homeland Jazan University, Saudi Arabia
13:30-13:45 The Globalized Spatiality: Homing diaspora through symbolic Places Abdelaaziz El-Bakkali
USMBA, Fes, Morocco
13:45-14:15 Discussion

Panel 7
Mapping Diasporic Identities in Literary Narratives
Chair: Dr. Said Abdellaoui, UMI, Meknes, Morocco
Diaspora, Space, Gender, and Migration in Laila Lalami’s Hope and Other Tarik Bouguerba
14:15-14:30 Dangerous Pursuits (2005): Towards an Aesthetics and Politics Approach UIT, Kenitra, Morocco
Transnational Moroccan Female Voices in Diaspora: Narratives of Gendered Fatima Ezzahra Abid
14:45-15:00 Identities, in Laila Lalami’s Secret Son (2010) UMV, Rabat, Morocco
Mapping Diasporic Identity in Anissa Bouziane’s Dune Song: A Journey from Khaoula Chakour
15:00-15:15 Exile to Homeliness USMS, Beni Mellal, Morocco
Forging a Revisited Transnational Female Experience within Liminal Spaces Mouna Benhaddou
15:15-15:30 of Diaspora in Najat El Hachmi’s The Last Patriarch CPGE, Salé, Morocco
Unveiling Patriarchal Constructs in Maghrebi Women's Diasporic Writings: M. Laghmam & El. Khadiri
15:30-15:45 Najat El Hachmi's Novel The Last Patriarch (2008) as a Case Study UMI, Meknes, Morocco
15:45-16:15 Discussion

16.15 Closing & Recommendations

16:30- Lunch Break