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SUMMARY:Amazigh Poetics: An Emerging Indigenous Literary Field
DESCRIPTION:\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n 	1 hour 30 minutes\n 	Mobile eTicket
 \n\n\n\n\n\nBrahim El Guabli\, Associate Professor of Arabic Studies and C
 omparative Literature\, Williams College\n\nKhadija Ikan\, Moroccan writer
 \n\nAtlas Phoenix\, Translator\n\nThis panel combines poetic readings in b
 oth Tamazight and English with a scholarly intervention on the constructio
 n of Amazigh literature. The participants will discuss the imbrication of 
 Indigeneity and literary concerns in Amazigh people's struggle for recogni
 tion of their language and culture in their indigenous homeland in Tamazgh
 a (the broader North Africa).\n\n_________________________________________
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 ______\n\nA Black and Amazigh Indigenous scholar from Morocco\, Brahim El
  Guabli is an Associate Professor of Arabic Studies and Comparative Liter
 ature at Williams College. His first book is entitled Moroccan Other-Arch
 ives: History and Citizenship after State Violence (Fordham University Pr
 ess\, 2023). He’s currently completing a second book entitled Desert Im
 aginations: Saharanism and its Discontents. His journal articles have appe
 ared in LA Review of Books\, PMLA\, Interventions\, The Cambridge Journal
  of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry\, Arab Studies Journal\, History in Afri
 ca\, META\, and the Journal of North African Studies\, among others. He i
 s co-editor of the two volumes of Lamalif: A Critical Anthology of Societ
 al Debates in Morocco During the “Years of Lead” (1966-1988) (Liverpo
 ol University Press\, 2022) and Refiguring Loss: Jews in Maghrebi and Mid
 dle Eastern Cultural Production (Pennsylvania State University Press\, fo
 rthcoming). El Guabli is co-founder and co-editor of Tamazgha Studies Jou
 rnal\, a peer-reviewed journal that seeks to place the Tamazgha at the hea
 rt of academic conversations.\n\n_________________________________________
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 ______\n\nKhadija Ikan is a Moroccan writer. She has literary works in Ar
 abic and Amazigh. She is Founding member of the league of women writers of
  morocco\, responsible for the Amazigh literary file in the league's offic
 e (2012 - 2018). In 1996\, ISESCO Award for Short Story in the Islamic Wor
 ld for the story "When the Carmina Burana Flows". 2010\, Appreciation Awar
 d from the Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture. Later published the short s
 tories "Bosnian Days"\, which won the Sudanese Altayeb Salih Prize for Wri
 tten Creativity" in 2018.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTags\n\n\n 	United States Event
 s\n 	Pennsylvania Events\n 	Things to do in Philadelphia\, PA\n 	Philadelp
 hia Performances\n 	Philadelphia Community Performances\n 	#poetry\n 	#lit
 erature\n 	#forum\n 	#revolution\n 	#humanities\n 	#upenn\n 	#poetics\n 	#
 amazigh\n\n\n
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