Wartime North Africa

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"Wartime North Africa is an essential and groundbreaking addition to scholarship of the Second World War. With great care and intelligence, Aomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein draw an intimate picture of the region. This is a book as beautiful as the people it portrays."-Laila Lalami,
author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Moor's Account "This brilliantly curated selection of personal histories illuminates the diversity and complexity of the North African region, culturally and politically, before, during, and just after the war. Wartime North Africa captures a broad spectrum of the lived experience of civilians across the region. Revelatory!"-Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews "A game-changer. Wartime North Africa comes as a revelation. This archive of little-known, multilingual sources makes it possible-no, necessary!-to include discussion of North Africa, with its complex layering of colonialism, nationalism, and fascism, in any classroom that takes up World War II and the Holocaust."-Michael Rothberg, author of Multidirectional Memory and The Implicated Subject "Wartime North Africa offers an important new understanding of daily life in World War II from an understudied geography and is hopefully only the first of many similar projects."-Danielle Beaujon, H-War