Julien Lacassagne

History and geography teacher at the Alexandre Dumas international high school in Algiers. Last book: Berbères juifs. L’émergence du monothéisme en Afrique du Nord,(Berberian Jews. The emergence of monotheism in North Africa), La Fabrique, 2020 (preface by Shlomo Sand).

The Maghreb, a French Colonial Invention Julien Lacassagne · December 2021 Anthropologist Abdelmajid Hannoum has just published a fascinating historical enquiry into the origin of the term Maghreb, invented to a large extent by the theoreticians of French colonialism. That word, which he has studied in various archives, especially those of the Bureaux Arabes, did (...)