MODERN LITERATURE This paper discusses several recent Moroccan works of literature, created by artists based both in Morocco and the diaspora, that engage questions of globalization and culture. I argue that “circulation” is a common thematic concern in many such texts of the past decade, albeit handled differently across them, and further that circulation offers a means by which to understand the relationship of globalization to recent literary and cultural production. Attention to circulation opens several critical avenues: to put in dialogue the cultural production of the Moroccan diaspora and Morocco without collapsing their differences; to identify a new paradigm of cultural production that follows the “postcolonial” period; and to link elements within these texts to the material and geopolitical concerns they engage. The larger goal is to try to develop a method for reading literary and film texts (and not only from Morocco, but from the greater Maghrib and Middle East) within the cultural conditions associated with globalization, particularly the new types of media and textual production (satellite TV, the internet, blogs and chatrooms, TXT messaging, etc.), the acceleration of various forms of transnational movement of bodies, finances, images, etc., and the changing role of the U.S. both as geopolitical entity and as provenance of American global culture