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Creating an Indigenous Narrative: Amazigh Literature

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This collection, guest edited by Brahim El Guabli, presents poetry and prose by Amazigh writers, translated from Tamazight.

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Translation and Rehabilitation: An Introduction to Indigenous Amazigh Literary Output

By Brahim El Guabli

Brahim El Guabli offers an absorbing overview of the “construction of Amazigh indigeneity,” and Amazigh literature’s blossoming in its midst.

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Photo by Abhas Jaiswal from Pexels.. Public domain.

Tomorrow I Will Celebrate Myself

By Fadma Farras

Fadma Farras claims the world as her own in this defiantly assured poem.

Translated from Tamazight by Ezzahra Benlahoussine

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Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko from Pexels.. Public domain.

The Mirror

By Mohamed Ouagrar

Poet Mohamed Ouagrar turns the mirror’s reflective qualities upon the writing self.

Translated from Tamazight by Brahim El Guabli

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My Language Is Tamazight

By Ali Sadqi Azaykou

Ali Sadqi Azaykou writes an ode to Tamazight and the multitudes within it.

Translated from Tamazight by El Habib Louai

Multilingual

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Photo by Uiliam Nörnberg on Pexels.. Public Domain.

The Imam’s Anxiety

By Mohamed Akounad

Frustrated by his congregation’s lack of engagement with his sermons, an imam takes a daring linguistic chance in this excerpt from a novel by Mohamed Akounad.

Translated from Tamazight by El Habib Louai

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Ravens’ Bread

Fearlessness and determination are the means to go on in this excerpt from Azergui's novel Ravens' Bread, set during Morocco's Years of Lead.

Translated from Tamazight by Hamid Ouyachi

Multilingual