Brahim El Guabli @ouldsahra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Many thanks to Gustavo Sanchez and to the Edge Effects’ team for this interview! 010
Brahim El Guabli @ouldsahra.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Desert Imaginations is a finalist for African Studies Association’s 2026 Best Book Award! 020
Reposted by Brahim El GuabliUniversity of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 02/09/2026We're thrilled to announce our latest award-winning authors in the fields of environmental studies, world history, cinema studies, and more. Please help us celebrate by sharing the news! www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/u...ucpress.eduUC Press August Award WinnersUC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are our August 2026 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news! 032
Brahim El Guabli @ouldsahra.bsky.social · 14/06/2026I can’t believe it’s been four years already! themarkaz.org/everyone-has... 000
Brahim El Guabli @ouldsahra.bsky.social · 04/06/2026My conversation with REPAIR Project about deserts, brown landscapes, environmentalism, and more: repairproject.substack.com/p/rangeland-...repairproject.substack.comRangeland myths: 'Healthy ecosystems are green'Read our think piece, listen to a new interview with Brahim El Guabli, and sign up to our event on 17 June. Plus: news and insights from REPAiR's research in South Africa and Madagascar. 000
Reposted by Brahim El GuabliBrahim El Guabli @ouldsahra.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Truly honored by this review of Desert Imaginations in the Massachusetts Review—penned by the brilliant Ibrahim Fawzy themassachusettsreview.substack.com/p/review-of-...themassachusettsreview.substack.comReview of Brahim El Guabli’s Desert Imaginations: A History of Saharanism and Its Radical Consequencesby Ibrahim Fawzy 011
Brahim El Guabli @ouldsahra.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Truly honored by this review of Desert Imaginations in the Massachusetts Review—penned by the brilliant Ibrahim Fawzy themassachusettsreview.substack.com/p/review-of-...themassachusettsreview.substack.comReview of Brahim El Guabli’s Desert Imaginations: A History of Saharanism and Its Radical Consequencesby Ibrahim Fawzy 011
Reposted by Brahim El GuabliJames Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Had a really nice chat with Brahim El Guabli about literature, migration, identity and his really cool new book on deserts! Check it out! 011
Reposted by Brahim El GuabliMiddle East Research and Information Project @merip.bsky.social · 19/02/2026NEW PODCAST: Literary scholar Brahim El Guabli joins the podcast for an In the Archive segment to discuss his 2021 article, "The Sub-Saharan Turn in Moroccan Literature" Listen on our website or wherever you get your podcasts. buff.ly/iw0sK9Kmerip.orgThe MERIP Podcast Episode 15: In the Archive with Brahim El GuabliOn this episode of our In the Archive series, MERIP’s Executive Director, James Ryan, speaks with Brahim El Guabli about his essay, “The Sub-Saharan Turn in Moroccan Literature,” which appeared in… 111
Brahim El Guabli @ouldsahra.bsky.social · 21/02/2026I had the pleasure of talking with Jim Ryan of MERIP about racial transitions in Moroccan literature in an article I published with them in 2021. This was also an opportunity to talk about Desert Imaginations and how it relates to that work. www.merip.org/2026/02/the-...merip.orgThe MERIP Podcast Episode 15: In the Archive with Brahim El GuabliOn this episode of our In the Archive series, MERIP’s Executive Director, James Ryan, speaks with Brahim El Guabli about his essay, “The Sub-Saharan Turn in Moroccan Literature,” which appeared in the... 000
Brahim El Guabli @ouldsahra.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Applications for the Critical Amazigh Studies Summer Institute are open: www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/article... 022
Reposted by Brahim El GuabliStuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Brahim El Guabli, Desert Imaginations: A History of Saharanism and Its Radical Consequences - @ucpress.bsky.social, November 2025 www.ucpress.edu/books/desert... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Ibrahim Fawzy newbooksnetwork.com/desert-imagi...ucpress.eduDesert Imaginations by Brahim El Guabli - PaperScholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change. 083
Brahim El Guabli @ouldsahra.bsky.social · 28/12/2025Negritude, Amazighitude, and Amazigritude as a horizon for Amazigh societies! 030
Reposted by Brahim El GuabliLongtail News @longtail-news.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Feed: "Africa Is a Country" By: Brahim El Guabli on Wednesday, December 24, 2025africasacountry.comAFCON and the politics of AfricanhoodIn Morocco, football has become a site for the slow re-Africanization of the country’s national identity. 001
Brahim El Guabli @ouldsahra.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Happy to share this essay on connections between Amazighitude and Negritude! 162
Brahim El Guabli @ouldsahra.bsky.social · 24/12/2025africasacountry.com/2025/12/afco... @africasacountry.bsky.socialafricasacountry.comAFCON and the politics of AfricanhoodIn Morocco, football has become a site for the slow re-Africanization of the country’s national identity. 010
Reposted by Brahim El GuabliBrahim El Guabli @ouldsahra.bsky.social · 10/11/2025My conversation with @jadaliyya.bsky.social’s Newton page! @ucpress.bsky.social www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4699...jadaliyya.comBrahim El Guabli, Desert Imaginations: A History of Saharanism and Its Radical Consequences (New Texts Out Now)The idea for this book emerged in 2012 when I was reading Ibrahim al-Koni’s and Abdulraham Munif’s novels intensively. Al-Koni’s novella Nazīf al-ḥajar (The Bleeding of the Stone) and his two-volume n... 021
Brahim El Guabli @ouldsahra.bsky.social · 10/11/2025My conversation with @jadaliyya.bsky.social’s Newton page! @ucpress.bsky.social www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4699...jadaliyya.comBrahim El Guabli, Desert Imaginations: A History of Saharanism and Its Radical Consequences (New Texts Out Now)The idea for this book emerged in 2012 when I was reading Ibrahim al-Koni’s and Abdulraham Munif’s novels intensively. Al-Koni’s novella Nazīf al-ḥajar (The Bleeding of the Stone) and his two-volume n... 021
Brahim El Guabli @ouldsahra.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Get 30% off: www.ucpress.edu/flyer/books/...ucpress.eduDesert Imaginations by Brahim El Guabli - Paper 011
Brahim El Guabli @ouldsahra.bsky.social · 22/10/2025I finally got to touch my book!!!! I can’t believe that it finally materialized with a masterpiece of a cover and wonderful endorsements from several esteemed colleagues who work in different disciplines! 121
Brahim El Guabli @ouldsahra.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Happy US Indigenous Peoples’ Day!! We, Amazigh people, have to remember that we belong to a larger humanity of Indigenous people across the globe. Their struggles have allowed our identity to be reborn, after decades of willful de-Amazighization. 020
Brahim El Guabli @ouldsahra.bsky.social · 11/10/2025The first translations in the Amazigh Studies series published by Georgetown University Press! These stunning covers highlight our visual identity! Send us your proposals! If you are coming to MESA, stop by our booth at the book fair. We’ll have swags and literature to share! 031
Brahim El Guabli @ouldsahra.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Happy Eid!! This is one of the oldest translations of the Fatiha into Tamazight! 010
Brahim El Guabli @ouldsahra.bsky.social · 11/04/2025I am delighted to share my second book “Desert Imaginations: A History of Saharanism and Its Radical Consequences.” سعيد بمشاركتكم كتابي الثاني الموسوم ب"تخيلات صحراوية: تاريخ الاستخلاء وعواقبه الجذرية.". ⴰⴷⵍⵉⵙ ⵉⵏⵓ ⵡⵉⵙ ⵙⵉⵏ ⴼ ⵜⵉⵏⵉⵔⵉ ⴷ ⵜⵡⴰⵔⴳⵉⵡⵉⵏ ⵏⵙⵙ! www.ucpress.edu/books/desert...ucpress.eduDesert Imaginations by Brahim El Guabli - PaperScholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change. 110
Brahim El Guabli @ouldsahra.bsky.social · 10/04/2025The ISESCO report in 2016 reveals that the problems in education systems and the limited success of literacy projects in SWATA (Southwest Asia and Tamazgha) are attributable to the failure to take into account people’s mother tongues as target languages for literacy and instruction. 020
Brahim El Guabli @ouldsahra.bsky.social · 08/04/2025ⴰⵙⵓⵖⵍ ⵏ ⵓⴷⵍⵉⵙ ⵏ ⵎⴰⵙⵙ ⴱⵔⴰⵀⵉⵎ ⴰⵅⵉⵢⵢⴰⵟ "ⵜⴰⵏⴽⵔⴰ ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ" ⵔⴰ ⴰⴷ ⵉⴼⴼⴰⵖ ⴷ ⵜⴰⵙⵜⴰⴷⴰⵡⵉⵜ ⵏ ⵊⵓⵔⵊⵜⴰⵡⵏ ⵖ ⵎⴰⵔⵉⴽⴰⵏ ⴰⵙⴳⵯⴰⵙ ⴰⴷ. ⴰⵔ ⴷⵉⴷⴰⵡⵏ ⴷⵔⵔⵓⵖ ⵜⴰⵡⵍⴰⴼⵜ ⵏⵙ. 010
Brahim El Guabli @ouldsahra.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Here is the cover of the inaugural book of the Amazigh Studies series published by Georgetown University Press! سعيد بمشاركتكم غلاف أول كتاب سيصدر عن سلسلة الدراسات الأمازيغية التي تنشرها دار نشر جامعة جورجتاون! 072
Brahim El Guabli @ouldsahra.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Tamazgha Studies Journal is establishing two awards to promote translation and scholarship in Amazigh Studies in English. Please donate to make this happen www.gofundme.com/f/bringing-t...gofundme.comDonate to Help Promote Amazigh Studies, organized by Brahim El GuabliImazighen are the Indigenous people of North Africa, and their language is called Tamazi… Brahim El Guabli needs your support for Help Promote Amazigh Studies 000
Brahim El Guabli @ouldsahra.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Amazigh Literature in Translation! Many thanks @wwborders.bsky.social 042
Brahim El Guabli @ouldsahra.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Issue 3 of Tamazgha Studies Journal is now live: lnkd.in/gCKYVnsK. I hope you will enjoy the contents of this issue which features, in addition to the editors’ introduction, several peer-reviewed articles, translations, interviews, and book reviews. Always happy to hear from prospective authors!tamazghastudiesjournal.orgTamazgha Studies JournalTamazgha 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 ... 041
