As a diasporic Moroccan woman living in the US and a scholar of the transnational politics of affect, gender, and sexuality, watching the broadcast and media coverage of the Moroccan football team in the 2022 World Cup was to experience an exhilarating, liberatory, and soul-nurturing sense of re..
Nadia Guessous
Born and raised in Rabat (Morocco) where she studied at Mohammed V University before
moving to the US, Nadia Guessous received her PhD in anthropology from Columbia University
in New York City and is currently an Associate Professor of Feminist and Gender Studies at
Colorado College (USA). Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of
transnational feminist theory, postcolonial/decolonial anthropology, Middle Eastern/North
African and critical Muslim Studies. She is currently working on a book entitled The Tragedy of
Progress where she explores how postcolonial secular feminism in Morocco has been shaped by
the legacies of colonial modernity and conscripted by the civilizing logics of the war on terror.
Guessous’ work has been published in a number of academic journals including Hespéris-
Tamuda; Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society; American Anthropologist;
Confluences Méditerranée; The Journal of Middle East Women's Studies; Review of Middle East
Studies; and Jadaliyya. She is also the author of a study on women, gender, and political
violence during the years of lead in postcolonial Morocco, which was commissioned by the
Moroccan Equity and Reconciliation Commission.