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JAMAL BAHMAD Curriculum Vitae Date of birth: 8 February 1982 Nationality: Moroccan Email: jamalbahmad@gmail.com Phone: +44 (0) 7574 657 094

EDUCATION 2014 PhD in Film and Postcolonial Cultural Studies, University of Stirling, UK. 2013 PGCAP (Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice in Higher Education), University of Stirling, UK. 2008 MA in CUltural Studies, University of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, Morocco. 2005 BA in English, University of Moulay Ismail, Morocco. PROFESSIONAL CAREER Postdoctoral Research Associate: Centre for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Philipps-Universitt Marburg, Germany. (May 2014- Present) Researcher: Media, Activism, and the New Political Research Project, Transregional Virtual Research Institute (TVRI). Social Science Research Council, New York, United States (Sept. 2013-March 2014) Co-Founder & General Editor: Stirling International Journal of Postgraduate Research. University of Stirling, UK (June 2011 - April 2014) Librarian: Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. (Feb 2008-Oct 2010) ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS Honours & Awards Modern Languages and Film Studies Spring School, IGRS, University of London. (2013) The AHRC-funded spring school took place in London, Paris and Gorizia (Italy). Speaking My Language, University of Glasgow. (2012/2013) The skills training programme funded by the AHRC allowed me to learn Portuguese. Full PhD Studentship, University of Stirling. (Oct 2010-Sept 2013) Distinguished Library Service, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. (Apr 2009) First Award for Academic Achievement, Moulay Ismail University, Morocco. (July 2005) Morocco Delegate: The Youth Symposium: Britain and the Maghreb. British Council and Al Akhawayn University, Morocco. (15-18 Sept 2004) Grants Grant from the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies: Allah n'est pas oblig: The Location of Islam in Francophone Cultures Postgraduate Study Day, University of Stirling, 20 June 2013. (380)

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Grant from the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Stirling: Allah n'est pas oblig: The Location of Islam in Francophone Cultures Postgraduate Study Day, University of Stirling, 20 June 2013. (180)

TEACHING Teaching Assistant: School of Arts and Humanities, University of Stirling. (Sept 2012-Dec 2012) Teaching Assistant: Department of English, University of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah. (Sept 2007-Jan 2008) English Teacher: Association Dhar El Mehraz pour le Dveloppement Culturel et Social, Fez. (Sept 2004-Aug 2005)

CONFERENCE ORGANISATION Study Day Organiser: Allah n'est pas oblig: The Location of Islam in Francophone Cultures. University of Stirling. (20 June 2013) Conference Co-organiser: Writing Morocco International Conference. University of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah. (25-26 Apr 2008) Conference Co-organiser: Global Culture in Local Circulation International Conference. Northwestern University (USA) and University of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah. (23 Mar 2007)

RESEARCH INTERESTS North African Cinema; Maghrebi Literature & Popular Culture; Collective & Oral Memory; Postcolonial City; Transnational & World Cinema; Postcolonial Cultural Studies; Travel and Exile Literature; New Media

LANGUAGES Spoken, read, written: Tamazight (Berber); Maghrebi Arabic; Classical & Modern Standard Arabic; French; English Intermediate: Portuguese; Spanish

MEMBERSHIPS Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies (SFPS) British Association for Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS)

PUBLICATIONS (Selected)

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Journal Articles (peer-reviewed) From Casablanca to Casanegra: Neoliberal Globalization and Disaffected Youth in Moroccan Urban Cinema. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 6.1 (2013): 1535 Casablanca Bound: The New Urban Cinema in Morocco. Francosphres 2.1 (2013): 73-85 Revolution in Maghrebi Cinema. Critical Muslim 9 (2014): 109-18 Rebels with a Cause: Youth, Globalisation and Postcolonial Agency in Moroccan Cinema. Forthcoming in The Journal of North African Studies 19.2 (2014) Scheherazade Trouble: Gender and Na(rra)tion in Leila Abouzeid's The Last Chapter. Forthcoming in Research in African Literatures (2014)

Book Chapters Postcolonialism at Sea: The Tragic Ends of History in Mohamed A. Tazi's Badis (Morocco, 1989). Forthcoming in David Murphy and Lizelle Bisschoff (eds), Africa's Lost Classics: New Histories of African Cinema (Oxford: Legenda Books, 2014) Naked Nation: Youth, Masculinity and the Coming Revolution in Nouri Bouzid's Man of Ashes (Tunisia, 1986). Forthcoming in David Murphy and Lizelle Bisschoff (eds), Africa's Lost Classics: New Histories of African Cinema (Oxford: Legenda Books, 2014) Casablanca, City Insurgent: Affective Cartographies and the Aesthetics of Violence in Faouzi Bensaidis What a Wonderful World (2006). Forthcoming in Ute Fendler, Mechtild Gilzmer, and Ricarda Bienbeck (eds), Transformations: Changements et renouveaux dans la littrature et le cinma du Maghreb depuis 1990 (Bayreuth: Bayreuth University Publications, 2014) Between Tangier and Marrakech: A History of Moroccan Cinema through Its Festivals. Forthcoming in Dina Iordanova and Stefanie Van de Peer (eds), Film Festival Yearbook (St Andrews: St Andrews Film Studies Press, 2013) Shooting Subcultures: Global Flows, Postcolonial Space and Translational Circulation in Recent Moroccan Cinema. Forthcoming in Tarik Sabry and Layal Ftouni (eds), Arab Subcultures: Reflections on Theory and Practice (I.B.Tauris, 2015) Book Reviews Morocco between Tradition and Modernity. By James Sater (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2010). Stirling International Journal of Student Research 1.1 (2012): 1-3 Screening Morocco: Contemporary Film in a Changing Society. By Valerie K. Orlando (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2011). Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies 3.1 (Spring 2012): 19-20 Cultural Encounters: On Media, the Modern and the Everyday. By Tarik Sabry (London: I.B.Tauris, 2010). The Journal of North African Studies 17.4 (2012): 737-739 Algerian National Cinema. By Guy Austin (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2012). Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies 4.2 (2013): 19-21

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Contesting Views: The Visual Economy of France and Algeria. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013). Modern and Contemporary France 22.1 (2014): 224-25 Conference Reports Allah nest pas oblig: Locating Islam in Francophone Cultures. Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies 4.2 (2013): 37-38 Language/Cinema: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference. Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies 4.1 (2013): 36 Francophone Postcolonial Visual Cultures. Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies 4.1 (2013): 35 Other The Battle of Algiers: a formative influence on Moroccan cinema. Opendemocracy.com (9 Jan 2014) URL: http://www.opendemocracy.net/jamal-bahmad-martin-evans/battle-of-algiers-formativ e-influence-on-moroccan-cinema Filmmakers in North Africa have been preoccupied by radical Islam. Africa at LSE Blog (12 Nov 2013) URL: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/2013/11/12/filmmakers-in-north-africa-have-been-pre occupied-by-radical-islam/ Abderrahmane Bouguermouh (1936-2013): Between Cinema and State in Algeria. Africultures (7 February 2013) URL: http://www.africultures.com/php/?nav=article&no=11289 Tinghir-Jerusalem-Tangier: The Jew, the Imam and the Camera in Morocco. Africultures.com (13 Feb 2013) URL: http://www.africultures.com/php/?nav=article&no=11305 Mohamed Majd: Obituary. Jadaliyya (1 Feb 2013) URL: http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/9934/mohamed-majd Dcs du comdien et acteur Hassan Mediaf. Africultures (8 Feb 2013) URL: http://www.africultures.com/php/?nav=murmure&no=11653

INVITED TALKS Casablanca Unbound: The New Urban Cinema in Morocco. Morocco Study Day, University of London Institute in Paris & University Mohamed V-Agdal (Morocco), 16 September 2013. God's Horses in the Bidonville: Screening the Social Origins of Radical Islam in North African Cities. Africa Talk Series: The Origins of Africas War on Terror, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), 11 November 2013. Beyond the Arab Spring: Social Change and Popular Protest in Moroccan Cinema. University of Sussex, 27 November 2013.

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CONFERENCE PAPERS (Selected) Can the Suburban Speak? Social Class and the Spectres of Radical Islam in Laila Marrakchis Marock (2005). Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France, University of Leicester. (5-7 Sep 2013) From Casablanca to Casanegra: Globalisation, Everyday Life and Youth in Recent Moroccan Cinema. Annual Conference of the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies. Institut Franais, London. (18-19 Nov 2011) The City is Ordinary: Everyday Affect and the Aesthetics of Violence in Recent Casablancan Films. International Conference: Transformations. Changements et renouveaux dans la littrature et le cinma au Maghreb depuis 1990. University of Bayreuth, Germany. (25-27 Nov 2010) Morocco Unbound: Nomadologies of the Transnational in Moroccan Cinema. Writing Morocco Conference. University of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah. (27 Apr 2008) Youth Rapping Authenticity and Hybridity: Reading Fez City Clans Fes Bladi. Global Culture in Local Circulation International Conference. Organised by Northwestern University and University of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah. (23 Mar 2007) Balek! Balek! Fez Medina in the Eyes of National Geographic. Culture and Contraband International Conference. Organised by the Open University (UK) and University of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah. (11-12 Jan 2007)