The Men’s football World Cup in Qatar has been a joy to watch from Moroccans’ vantage point. The team’s successes on the pitch have drawn support from across the world as the story of an underdog overcoming footballing powerhouses and giving hope to other teams to, one day, win the championship...
Idriss Jebari and Brahim El Guabli ابراهيم الكبلي
Idriss Jebari is Assistant Professor in Middle East Studies in the Department of Near and Middle East Studies at Trinity College Dublin.
Brahim El Guabli is a scholar of comparative literature whose research interests encompass Tamazgha (the broader North Africa), the Middle East, and sub-Saharan Africa. He probes questions of trauma and memory and the way aesthetics enable various forms of coming to terms with violent pasts. His forthcoming book is entitled Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship after State Violence. His journal articles have appeared in Interventions, The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, Arab Studies Journal, and The Journal of North African Studies, among others. He is co-editor of Lamalif: A Critical Anthology of Societal Debates in Morocco During the “Years of Lead” (1966-1988) (Liverpool University Press, forthcoming) and Refiguring Loss: Jews in Maghrebi and Middle Eastern Cultural Production (Pennsylvania State University Press, forthcoming). He is currently completing a second book entitled Saharan Imaginations: Between Saharanism and Ecocare. Brahim has been co-editor of the Maghreb page on Jadaliyya since 2011.