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Over the past two decades, Amazigh Studies has gained momentum, fostering new academic and cultural initiatives in both North Africa and the Anglophone world. This Critical Amazigh Studies Summer Institute (CASSI) aims to remedy the shortcomings of the current situation of Amazigh studies in Ang..

Roquiya would not stop talking about her goats. “If you don’t have goats, you have nothing,” she declared, “they have al-khair (goodness) and baraka (blessing). I swear, they are better than watermelons.” We were strolling through Feija, a pastoral plain in the provin..

Over the past twenty-five years, I have watched a vibrant literature on authoritarianism take shape in political science. Co-optation is everywhere in that literature; almost all scholars agree that it supports durable authoritarian rule. Interestingly, MENA ca..

Most of the available literature on climate and energy in North Africa and the Arab region is produced by international neoliberal institutions. Their gaze is biased and imbued with orientalist tropes which maintain and reinforce old colonial relations, even wh..

Most Moroccans who do not perceive of themselves within the binaries of white vs. black will marvel at the above statement. The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Reporter, a colonial tool that promoted a hierarchized idea of race, is a useful example of the precariousness of racial categ..

Join us on Tuesday, 12 September for a conversation with Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani and Samia Errazzouki about the the recent devastating earthquake in Morocco. This episode of Connections will examine the humanitarian impact of the natural disaster and relief efforts, the responses..

This book is a culmination of a quarter-century of interest, research, and teaching about the indigenous Amazigh populations of North Africa and the diaspora. As a scholar, I have been endlessly fascinated by the ways in which Amazigh groups that were systemati..

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..