Amazigh History of North Africa | Brahim El Guabli
"The history of North Africa is infinitely complex and barbed with post-colonial tensions. In this conversation, Professor Brahim El Guabli helps to shed light on this region's history through an Amazigh lens. He tells us about the violence of the word ""Berber"", Morocco's Years of Lead, and qualifying French as a colonial language or not. The episode touches on the Jewish population of Morocco, searching for ""other archives"" in which absent histories can be found and engaged with, and how to decolonize one's own mind and self through research.
Brahim El Guabli is the Chair and Associate Professor of Arabic Studies. He is interested in topics of Maghrebi and Middle Eastern literature, including trauma and memory, Saharan imaginations, Jews in Arabic literature and film, transitional justice processes, translation, current events, Marxist Leninist Movements, Afro-Arab solidarities, and decolonization movements. He is the co-founder and co-editor of Tamazgha Studies Journal.
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Read more about his book Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship After State Violence
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