Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: How to Write on Farida Benlyazid? -- Farida the Subject -- The Making of the Book -- Contents -- 1 Tangier and Paris: Multiculturalism and Feminism -- Cinema and Training in Paris -- Jarha Fi-l Hâ'it/A Breach in the Wall (1978) -- Identités de Femmes/Women's Identities (1978) -- Arais min kassab/Reed Dolls (1982) -- Notes -- 2 Tangier & -- (Re)turn to Fes: A Door to the Sky (1988) -- The Return of the Soul -- Writing the Script of Badis (Mohammed Abderrahman Tazi, Morocco & -- Spain, 1989) -- Fes: A Door to the Sky -- Notes -- 3 Intermezzo: Anti-Globalist Feminist Resistance -- Looking for My Wife's Husband (1993) -- From Fes to Bamako: Aminata Traore': A Woman of the Sahel (1993) -- Storyteller in Morocco: Contrabando (1994) and Sur La Terrasse (1995) -- Notes -- 4 Farida's Great Halqa Throughout Morocco and Beyond -- The First Halqa in the Theater: Help Thyself, Heaven Will Help Thee (1996-1997) -- The Halqa of the Tale on the Screen: Keïd Ensa/Ruses de Femmes/The Wiles of Women -- The Citizen's Halqa: Casablanca, Casablanca -- Notes -- 5 Tangier and the World: Juanita Narboni (2005) -- The Shadows of September 11, 2001 -- 2006: A Year of Contrasts -- Flashback 1: La vida perra de Juanita Narboni (2005) -- Flashback 2: The War on TV (2006) -- Flashback 3: "Le cinéma au féminin"-The Moroccan Feminist Filmmaker and the Moudawana -- Casanayda (2007) -- Family Secret (2009) -- Notes -- 6 The Sahara, the Atlas, and Tangier -- The Cultures of Morocco at the Dawn of the Arab Revolts -- The Bag (2011) -- The |