Brahim El Guabli is a Black, Amazigh Indigenous scholar from Morocco. As an interdisciplinary scholar, Professor El Guabli teaches  a variety of topics in Tamazghan (the broader North Africa, including parts of sub-saharan Africa) and Middle Eastern literatures.

 Professor El Guabli’s scholarship has appeared in PMLA, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, and The Yearbook of Comparative Literature, among others. He also authored a number of book chapters on race and racism, joint authorship practices in Morocco, translation in transitional justice, and the return of Jews in literature and film.

Professor El Guabli’s first book, Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship after State Violence, draws on new materials in Arabic, Tamazight, French, and Moroccan colloquial Arabic (Darija) to make a novel argument about the connections between cultural production, history writing and citizenship in post-1999 Morocco. He is currently writing a second book tentatively entitled Desert Imaginations: Saharanism and its Discontents. The latter is a study of how a host of authors have imagined, (mis)represented, and engaged with the Sahara since the 18^th century.

Professor El Guabli is the co-editor of a recent volume of the Review of the Middle East Studies dedicated to Amazigh Literature. He is also co-editor of Lamalif: A Critical Anthology of Societal Debates in Morocco During the “Years of Lead” (Liverpool University Press, 2022) and Remembering Jews in Maghrebi and Middle Eastern Media (Pennsylvania State University).

Professor El Guabli is co-founder and co-editor of Tamazgha Studies Journal, which is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of Tamazgha (the Amazigh homeland in the broader North Africa) from the lens of indigeneity and multilingualism. He is also co-founder and co-editor of the Amazigh Studies series with Georgetown University Press.

Interview with JHU Office of Climate & Sustainability, December 4, 2024.