Institut de recherches et d’études sur le monde arabe et musulman, Iremam, UMR 7310

Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme (MMSH)
5, rue du Château de l’Horloge
BP 647
13094 Aix-en-Provence cedex 2

Director : Richard Jacquemond, Professor at the University of Aix-Marseille
Assistant Director : Cédric Parizot, Researcher at CNRS

Secretariat: Christelle Vayssière
Tél. : +33(0)4 42 52 41 62
Fax : +33(0)4 42 52 49 80
mél : secretariat.iremam@mmsh.univ-aix.fr

Financial accounting: Christine Miretti
mél : miretti@mmsh.univ-aix.fr

Associate researchers: for association applications consult the procedure in the Directory

International Welcome:

For Welcomeletters, write to: Myriam Laakili: laakili@mmsh.univ-aix.fr
For an internship report, a certificate of attendance and for any other application, Myriam Laakili welcomes you by appointment: laakili@mmsh.univ-aix.fr

For PhD students, contact: Christelle Vayssière
mél: vayssiere@mmsh.univ-aix.fr
Tél. +33 (0)4 42 52 49 69

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Consult the members directory

To contact the webmaster: Marie-Pierre Oulié. More...

Subsections

• Après le 13 novembre 2015 (2015-2017)
• Découverte d’une inscription en arabe datant du Ve siècle
• EGYPTE 2011-2014
• IRAK 2016-2017
• ISRAEL/PALESTINE 2011-2014/2016-2017
• LE "HALAL" 2012-2017
• LIBYE 2011-2017
• MONDE ARABE 2011-2018
• SYRIE 2011-2017
• TUNISIE 2011-2014
• YEMEN 2011, 2014-2017
• PRESSE
• RADIO
• TV
• Retransmission
• WEB. More...

An independent Yemeni researcher, Fatima Al-BAydani Alzawiya has dedicated herself to collecting Yemen’s intangible cultural heritage from 1979 to 2015. She worked in partnership with CEFAS (The Sanaa French Centre of Archeology and Social Sciences), the ENS and UNESCO, and founded the Institut Aydanoot. In 2015, she deposited this entire collection at the MMSH Sound Archives, as part of a convention with the IREMAM laboratory. The archive contains 13 265 files that have been organized into 7 directories, according to document type: audio (342 files), video (258 files), illustrations (199 files), editorial projects (241 files), publications (88 files), photographs (4506 files), and texts (7355 files).
Fatima Al-Baydani described the story behind this collection at a conference on the 12th of February 2015, available to listen.
Since October 2016, she has been hosted by IREMAM to work on this archive, and became a laureate of the Pause Program in 2017.
Since late February 2017, a selection of documents is now available online at the MMSH Sound Archives (photographs, videos, folklore, etc.) at:

 field videos corpus

• oral interviews corpus 
• photography corpus
• performance and workshop recordings corpus: http://phonotheque.mmsh.huma-num.fr/dyn/portal/index.seam?page=alo&aloId=12264&fonds=&nat=3&cid=353 
• documentary video corpus

To find out more on the Fatima Al-Baydani-Alzawiya corpus, available at the Aix-en-Provence MMSH Sound Archives.
And also on: Defter and Calames.
To read on Sound Archives Blog:
Fonds Fatima Al-Baydani-Alzawiya : pour la sauvegarde du patrimoine immatériel yéménite : http://phonotheque.hypotheses.org/21416.
Unpublished images of Yemeni heritage now available online : http://phonotheque.hypotheses.org/21601. More...

Catherine Miller, Director of Research at the CNRS and Director of Iremam (2015-2017), has registered fifty-seven interviews across two years (1981 and 1984) in South Sudan.
In this region, an intermediary between the Arabo-Muslim and African worlds, a variety of vehicular Arabic called Juba Arabic developed in the second half of the 19th century. A growing phenomenon throughout the 20th century, it has been observed in particular in Juba, capital of the Province of Equatoria in South Sudan, where the majority of these interviews were carried out. Catherine Miller has used this material to study the expansion of Juba Arabic, to the detriment of vernacular languages, and the cultural, economic, political and educational implications of Arabization in this region of the country.
This corpus was deposited at the MMSH Sound Archives in 2008 by Catherine Miller. The recordings can be heard online.
The Catalog below:

Catalogue Miller

See also the Sound Archives Blog. More...

Ethnologist, Research Director at the CNRS, previously Director of the LAPMO (Laboratory for the Anthropology and Prehistory of the Western Mediterranean Countries), and previously member of IREMAM (The Institute of Research and Study on the Arab and Muslim World), Marceau Gast, who died in July 2010, left cases containing video and audio cassettes to the MMSH Sound Archives: the oral sources of his research.
These formed the basis of his work carried out from the 1960s to the early 2000s in the Algerian south (Berber world), in Yemen, in the Queyras in France. Several overarching themes structure this archive: handicrafts, agricultural practices, food conservation techniques and oral traditions.
Find out moreAudio recordings available for consultation at the MMSH Sound Archives in Aix-en-Provence
Notebook and audio notes of an ethnographer in Yemen in the 1980s, a first glimpse into Marceau Gast’s Yemen corpus
The great majority of these recordings are in Arab Yemeni, in all the diversity of its different dialects. There is also, however, an extract in French. In October 1984, on returning to the village of Thula, north-west of the capital Sanaa, Marceau Gast gave over to reflexions in the form of audio field notes…
A thematic bibliography linked to the corpus of Marceau Gast’s audio archives on Yemen is accessible online on Zotero. More...

The MMSH Sound Archives is dedicated to collecting recordings from the audio heritage considered to be of ethnological, linguistic, historical, musicological or literary value on the Mediterranean space. The Sound Archives document fields that are little covered by conventional sources, or complements them from the point of view of actors or witnesses. The archive, which boasts over 4000 hours, is made up of archives deposited by researchers working with oral interviews, and associations involved in the preservation of regional heritage. Over 2000 hours have been indexed in Ganoub (south in Arabic), as its database is known. Maintaining the catalogue is a continuous process, with new references being entered each week. More...

Arsène Roux (1893-1971) was Director of the Collège d’Azrou, then Director of studies in Berber dialectology at the Institut des Hautes études marocaines; he taught Berber to the Affaires Indigènes officers.
His archives, bequeathed to the l’Encylopédie Berbère (Berber Encyclopaedia) in 1974, belong to IREMAM and are housed at the MMSH Library.
For specialist researchers, the collection provides:

The archives of the MMSH Library bring together a high standard of publications and materials in history, the humanities and social sciences on the countries of the Mediterranean, of both Western (North coast) and Arab civilization (extending to the region of Muslim civilization).
The archives also bring together document libraries (Arab Studies and Thematic Studies Departments), an image library and a sound archive.
Providing research support for researchers and doctoral students, it is also, however, open to the public and to students whose courses are held at the MMSH.
The archives bring together more than 280 000 documents from the diverse laboratories that make up the MMSH: IREMAM, TELEMME, IDEMEC, LAMES, IMAF:

• 150 000 books, including 45 000 in Arabic and a very interesting fund on Berber studies,
• 4800 titles of magazines including some 200 subscriptions and 2000 titles of periodicals published in the Arab World,
• 2100 maps,
• 120 000 iconographic documents (mainly architectural and ethnographic photographs on the Arab and Muslim World),
• 6000 hours of sound archives of which 3500 can be consulted on the Internet.
• The digital resources available on the e-Library website include both highlights of the library’s collections, and native digital resources,
• Since 2016, two multimedia navigation terminals in the reading room provide direct access to the archives of the French National Audiovisual Archives (INA).

  To find out more

Where to find us
Médiathèque, MMSH

5, rue du Château de l’Horloge
13094 Aix-en-Provence, France

From Tuesday to Friday, 9am to 5:30pm, and on Mondays from 1pm to 5:30pm.

Contact:

Bérengère Clément, Archivist, Head of IREMAM Acquisitions
Tél. +33 (0)4 42 52 41 15

Digital resources: e-mediatheque.mmsh.univ-aix.fr

MMSH Library Catalogues

• Library: mediabase.mmsh.univ-aix.fr
• Sound Archive : http://www.mmsh.univ-aix.fr/mediatheque/Pages/achives-sonores.aspx
• Picture library and archives: http://www.mmsh.univ-aix.fr/mediatheque

MMSH’s Blogs on hypotheses.org

• Médiathèque & Méditerranée
• Les carnets de la phonothèque

Ressources MMSH en ligne

• The Mediterranean Library
• The Mediterranean Map Room
• Mediamed, Multimedia resources in the humanities and social sciences on the Mediterranean
• Med-Mem, Audiovisual memories of the Mediterranean
• Aldébaran, Selection of documentary resources in the humanities.

And the Digital City of the Mediterranean ​(CINUMED) which is a platform for the pooling and sharing of knowledge in the field of Mediterranean studies in the humanities and social sciences. More...

IREMAM possesses a documents archive dating back to 1956, which covers the modern Arab world in the humanities and the social sciences, in both Western languages and Arabic. Incorporated into the collections of the médiathèque de la MMSH in 2004, the archive complements those of the Aix-Marseille I University library (Mediterranean Orient 1453-1900), and those of the National Archives’ Overseas Territories Archives Center (colonial period).

These rich collections represent half a century of research in Islamic studies, history, linguistics, law, sociology, anthropology, political sciences, migration flows and international relations in the Arab and Muslim world.

• Special donated collections
  J. Dejeux Collection (Francophone Maghreb literature)

  B. Etienne Collection (political sciences, Islam)
  
J.-R. Henry Collection (Francophone Maghreb literature)
  
J. Lacouture Collection (modern history)
  
J. Luccioni Collection (colonial history of Morocco)
  
R. Mantran Collection (history of the Ottoman Empire)
  
M. Michel Collection (African history)
  
Y. Porter Collection (Middle-Eastern art history)
  
A. Raymond Collection (history of Arab towns)
  
C. Souriau Collection (women in the Maghreb)

• Collections of the official journals of the countries of the Maghreb (post-independence)

Researchers’ private archives
Fonds Y. Bonète (anthropological photographs from Algeria)
Fonds Couleau (manuscripts on agriculture in Morocco)
Fonds J. Desparmet (ethnography and the Arabic language in Algeria)
Fonds L. Golvin (photographs of medieval archeology from Algeria)
Fonds Germaine Laoust-Chantréaux (material and photographs linked to his ethnographic field research in Morocco and Algeria, mostly Kabyle)
Fonds J. Revault (photographs of domestic architecture in Tunisia and Morocco)
Fonds A. Roux (Arab and Berber manuscripts). More...