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As an enormous solar power plant springs up in the Moroccan desert near Ouarzazate, reconfiguring its visual and territorial makeup, there are worries it might overshadow the region’s rich cultural history.

On 8 September 2023 a devastating earthquake, the likes of which Morocco has not experienced in a century, struck the High Atlas region of the country. Mouin Rabbani, Editor of Quick Thoughts and Jadaliyya Co-Editor, interviewed Brahim El Guabli, a specialist on the region and Co-Editor of Jadal..

Tradurre é tradire: translation is betrayal. Thus goes the saying that generations of translators and scholars of translation have grappled and are still grappling with. Translation is betrayal, but I have always wondered who and which language translation betrays. Are all transla..

Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship after State Violence is an attempt to make sense of a historically rich period in Morocco’s post-colonial history by engaging questions of archives, loss, and citizenship through the rewriting of the nat..

I speak Tamazight. It is my mother tongue. A language that has been both within and out of reach. Both close and distant. Both intimate and elusive. Tamazight has always been available to me at home and in familial settings, but it was never part of my academic or intellectual instruction. In my..

This special section of the Arab Studies Journal (ASJ) is the result of two years of rigorous work to produce an interdisciplinary special section on the counterintuitive question of the location of the Maghreb. When I first conceptualized what would have been ..

Amazigh language and culture are witnessing a hard-won tankra (awakening).[1] Shifting from a marginalized identity that was confined to enclaves and isolated areas, Amazigh culture has become, in a matter of a few decades, an urban phenomenon, transforming the public sphere and changin..

I am Amazigh, Black, and Sahrawi. Amazigh language is my mother tongue. My mother is Black, and my father is Sahrawi. The only picture I own of my maternal grandfather tells me that his roots run deep into sub-Saharan Africa. My category of Moroccan citizen has escaped the attention of sch..

The Third Book: An Inclination to Sunset

By Salah Boussrif

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Many factors motivated my decision to translate this small selection of poems into English. First of all, my growing awareness of the dearth of Maghrebi literary production in English prompted me to think more critically about translation and its effects on the reception of thi..