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Moctar Maghlah, Loves in Saharan Time. Anthology of Oral-Written Moorish Poetry Translated from Hassaniyya (Avignon: Wallada, 2020). xiv +165 pp. ISBN 978-2-904201-94-3Moctar Maghlah, Les Amours au temps du Sahara. Anthologie de poésie maure orale-écrite traduite du hassaniyya (Avignon: Wallada, 2020). xiv +165 pp. ISBN 978-2-904201-94-3Tatiana Benfoughal, The Palms of Skill: Basketry in the Saharan Oasis (Paris: Muséum d'histoire naturelle, 2022). 462 pp. ISBN 978-2-85653-980-4Tatiana Benfoughal, Les palmes du savoir-faire: la vannerie dans les oasis du Sahara (Paris: Muséum d'histoire naturelle, 2022). 462 pp. ISBN 978-2-85653-980-4

While love passes for being a feeling born in the West in the twelfth century, love poetry, in its declamatory or sung form, appeared in the sixth century among the Bedouin of the Arabian desert before flourishing in the Arabic cities, then Persian and finally in Europe. Love passion, excessive in essence, can be said only in excess with its joys and its distress. The man who experiences this state of passion is feminized, finding in the medium of poetry a socially legitimate space to express his emotions, including jealousy, nostalgia or blasphemy. Singing the beauty of the beloved and the disorder she or he inspires is a way of acknowledging his emotional vulnerability and also a mode of love conquest. But if the language of predation can be found in heterosexual and homosexual Arabic or Persian masculine poetry, such language is absent from feminine poetry, this difference revealing the asymmetrical polarity of desire according to gender.

Unlike numerous traditions, poetic inspiration of Moorish poets is not spiritual but carnal because it takes root in the desire for a woman, who taste likeBaudelaire’s Fleurs du mal. Love poems find their reason in the context of their production. In this case, the decisive moment of the meeting and the long-lasting impression it leaves on the poet. Love poems are not the privilege of a handful, they are primarly composed in the specific Arabic dialect (ḥassāniyya), with the aim of reaching the woman’s heart, like Bedouin Arabic pre-islamic poetry. So her first name, her body, her qualities and defects, from erotised become poetised. À la différence de nombreuses traditions, l’inspiration poétique des poètes maures n’est pas spirituelle mais bien charnelle puisqu’elle s’enracine dans le désir pour une femme rencontrée, qui a le goût des Fleurs du mal de Baudelaire. Les poèmes d’amour, indissociables de l’itinéraire existentiel de son auteur, ne trouvent leur raison d’être que dans le contexte de leur production, en l’occurrence l’instant décisif de la rencontre amoureuse. Comme dans la poésie arabe antéislamique bédouine, la poésie amoureuse maure, composée dans le dialecte arabe local (ḥassāniyya), possède un but essentiellement pratique, gagner le cœur de l’aimée. Ainsi son prénom, son corps, ses qualités et ses défauts, d’érotisés deviennent poétisés.

Valentine's Day owes its recent success in Egypt to the circulation of Western imaginaries through the media, coupled with the availability of affordable gifts due to trade with China. [...]commercial romantic models reach broad markets through new consumption habits. Previously, the series used the figure of the \"tough man\" (qabaday) as a means of indirect critique of the authoritarian regime. Since the uprising, however, television series alternate between critique of the selfdestructive impotence of society, escapism influenced by Gulf funding, and narratives of resilience that center around dishonored women.

L’interdiction de délivrer des certificats de virginité marque un progrès encourageant dans la lutte contre les violences faites aux femmes, mais elle devrait ouvrir sur la question plus large de la chirurgie plastique, qui sert souvent des formes d’aliénation du corps féminin.

Talar osteochondral lesions (OCL) frequently occur following injury. Surgical interventions such as femoral condyle allogeneic or autogenic osteochondral transplant (AOT) are often used to treat large talar OCL. Although AOT aims to achieve OCL repair by replacing damaged cartilage with mechanically matched cartilage, the spatially inhomogeneous material behavior of the talar dome and femoral donor sites have not been evaluated or compared. The objective of this study was to characterize the depth-dependent shear properties and friction behavior of human talar and donor-site femoral cartilage. To achieve this objective, depth-dependent shear modulus, depth-dependent energy dissipation and coefficient of friction were measured on osteochondral cores from the femur and talus. Differences between anatomical regions were pronounced near the articular surface, where the femur was softer, dissipated more energy and had a lower coefficient of friction than the talus. Conversely, shear modulus near the osteochondral interface was nearly indistinguishable between anatomical regions. Differences in energy dissipation, shear moduli and friction coefficients have implications for graft survival and host cartilage wear. When the biomechanical variation is combined with known biological variation, these data suggest the use of caution in transplanting cartilage from the femur to the talus. Where alternatives exist in the form of talar allograft, donor-recipient mechanical mismatch can be greatly reduced.