North African History Through an Amazigh Lens: Brahim El Guabli’s Reading List
We learnt so much from our conversation with Professor Brahim El Guabli on the afikra podcast. The episode dedicated to an Amazigh history of North Africa, gives an essential overview of the region’s history, which is infinitely complex and barbed with post-colonial tensions. We asked Professor El Guabli to point us to further reading on the topic. The following resources should help you dive deeper:
Tamazgha Studies Journal
Tamazgha Studies Journal (TSJ) is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that seeks to foreground a critical understanding of the geocultural and intellectual space of the current Maghreb through multilingual and indigeneity-informed approaches.
Review of Middle East Studies: Special Edition on Amazigh Literature
A special edition edited by Professor El Guabli that’s entitled “Amazigh Literature: Critical and Close Reading Approaches”. Read for illuminating essays and scholarship that offer “critical and close readings of individual texts and key authors.”
Remembering Jews in Maghrebi and Middle Eastern Media
Co-edited by Professor El Guabli, this book “sheds light on the departure of Jews from their homelands specifically in terms of its impact on their neighbors, emphasizing Muslim views of these ruptured relations. Rather than treat Jewish communities as a historically separate entity apart from Muslim societies, the editors’ compelling introduction and the refreshing essays gathered here bear witness to the depth and complexity of the relations between the two communities.”
Coming out this September via Penn State University Press
For further reading, explore Brahim’s profile on Research Gate.
