Brahim El Guabli is associate professor of Arabic studies and comparative literature at Williams College and currently associate professor of comparative thought and literature at Johns Hopkins University. El Guabli specializes in Amazigh, Arabic, and Francophone literatures, but is interested in a variety of topics including memory, indigeneity, and environmental studies.
El Guabli is the author of Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship after State Violence (Fordham University Press, 2023), which has received honorable mention by the Middle East Librarians Association and is a finalist for the African Studies Association’s best book award. His second book, Desert Imaginations: Saharanism and its Discontents, is forthcoming with the University of California Press. El Guabli is co-founder and co-editor of the Amazigh Studies series with Georgetown University Press and of the independent peer-reviewed Tamazgha Studies Journal.
