Justin McGuinness

Born in England, Justin McGuinness has been at AUP in Paris since summer 2001. After a first degree in Oriental Studies (Arabic and Islamic studies) at Cambridge, he headed for North Africa where he taught at the University of Tunis and worked free-lance as a conference interpreter and translator. Eventually, on completion of a PhD focusing on representations of power, poverty and the city, he turned to travel writing before moving to France to take up his current academic post. By dint of his experience of acquiring languages and moving between cultures, jobs and locales, Justin is much interested in the mechanics of different discursive worlds.

Justin’s current research is varied. He maintains a strong interest in the processes and practices of urban change – hence a project entitled ‘On the rhetoric of the riad: the gentrification of North African médinas’. However, building on a theoretical theme explored in his PhD (the characterisation of Arab regimes as ‘neo-patriarchal’), Justin is working on the interlinked issues of democratisation and change in the mediascape in contemporary Morocco. He is also interested in the self-representation of Arab states on the web and also how rigourist Muslim groups are using the new medium to reach more global audiences.

'La Villa du Zodiac, une certaine idée du modernisme méditerranéen dans les années 1930', with Zoubeïr Mouhli, in Archibat (issue 23, spring 2011).

"'De mon âme à ton âme' / Le Festival de Fès des musiques sacrées du monde et ses discours (2003-2007)" in Maghreb et sciences sociales 2009-2010 (Thème 1, 27-52).

'Viva Laljdérie' in IBLA, No. 199 (2007), pp. 77-82.

'Errances vers un Orient imaginaire? Les polymigrants de la Médina de Fès (2000-2005)' in IBLA, No. 198 (2006), pp. 179-208.

'Tunisian Dynasticism' in The Court Historian, Vol. 10, 2 (December 2005), p. 193.

'A Textual Enactment of Community: On Discourse Analysis, the News Media and a Social Housing Project in Tunisia in the 1990s'.  The Journal of North African Studies, Vol.10, No.1 (March 2005) pp.1-18.

'La Médina de Tunis: paysage et texture urbains, espace et changement' in Revue de l’Institut de Belles Lettres Arabes, 2002, 1, nº189, (65ème année), pp.71-96.

'Neighbourhood notes: texture and streetscape in the Médina of Tunis'. Journal of North African Studies, vol. 5, summer 2001, pp.97-120.

'Political context and professional ideologies: French urban conservation planning transferred to the Médina of Tunis'.  Journal of North African Studies, 1/6 winter 1997.

'Political Context and Professional Ideologies' in The Journal of North African Studies, Vol.2, No. 2 (Autumn 1997), pp. 34-56.

Joint editor of collection of conference papers entitled L’intégration de l’héritage (Tunis: ASM, 1994).

Travel writing

Tunis, 1800-1950. Portrait urbain. Tunis: ASM / Med-Urbs programme Patrimoines en partage, scheduled for publication late autumn 2003.

The Footprint Handbook to Morocco (Bath: Footprint, forthcoming November 2003, fourth edition). Guidebook, pp.575.

'The illuminated oases of Saladi' article in B. Rogerson and S. Lavington, eds (2003) Marrakech, the Red City. London: Sickle Moon Books, pp.149-153.

The Footprint Handbook to Tunisia (Bath: Footprint, October 2002, third edition). Guidebook, pp.575.

'Tanger, ville interlope'. Travel article in La Gazelle, Tunisair in-flight magazine, October 2002.

The Footprint Handbook to Marrakech and southern Morocco (Bath: Footprint, November 2001). Guidebook, pp.380.

The Footprint Handbook to Morocco (Bath: Footprint, August 2001, third edition). Guidebook, pp.550.

'Les tanneurs de Marrakech'. Travel article in Au Maroc, numéro 1, 'Rendez-vous à Marrakech', May 2001.

The Footprint Handbook to Libya (Bath: Footprint, November 2000). Guidebook, pp.350. Published under the pseudonym James Azema.

Médinances, eight faces of old Tunis (Tunis: Alif, 1998). Illustrated book with 200 photographs by various photographers.

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