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Dr. Brahim El Guabli<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This year, we are honored to host Dr. Brahim El Guabli<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Arabic Studies and Comparative Literature at Williams College and currently Associate Professor of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n

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Dr. El Guabli\u2019s lecture, titled “Tamazgha Remaps Africa: Reflections on the Scholarly Potential of Amazigh Indigeneity,” <\/strong>will explore the Amazigh Cultural Movement (ACM), which has produced a rich body of literature and thought that has played a crucial role in changing states and societies in North Africa. In tandem with advocacy for linguistic and cultural rights, the ACM activists remapped African geography by inventing and deploying the neologism of Tamazgha. Extending from the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean to the oasis of Siwa in West Egypt and encompassing vast areas of the Sahel, Tamazgha, or the Amazigh homeland, has challenged all the traditional ways in which the Sahara has been conceptualized and discussed in scholarship, opening space for a different understanding of Islamization and cultural and demographic continuities between North and sub-Saharan Africa. This talk will address ACM activists’ construction of the Amazigh homeland and reveal Tamazgha’s transformative potential for scholarship.<\/p>\n

Dr. El Guabli<\/a>\u00a0is associate professor of Arabic studies and comparative literature at Williams College and currently associate professor of comparative thought and literature at Johns Hopkins University. He specializes in Amazigh, Arabic, and Francophone literatures, but his interdisciplinary scholarship encompasses a variety of fields including memory, indigeneity, and environmental studies. Dr. El Guabli is the author of the award-winning monograph\u00a0Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship after State Violence<\/em>\u00a0(Fordham University Press, 2023). He has two forthcoming books: Desert Imaginations<\/em> (University of California Press) and Literature and Indigeneity<\/em> (University of Michigan Press). \u00a0He is also co-founder and co-editor of the Amazigh Studies series (Georgetown University Press) and of the independent peer-reviewed\u00a0Tamazgha Studies Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The Distinguished Scholar Lectures were started in 1996 and are funded by an anonymous alumna with a deep appreciation for the value of intellectual engagement in the modern languages and literature.<\/strong> As the most prominent academic event of the Language and Culture Studies Department, we invite one highly accomplished scholar\/writer\/performer working in the field of foreign languages and cultures each year to give a public lecture at Trinity<\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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