- Translation Studies, Islamic Art, Arabic Literature, Aesthetics and Politics, Arabic Philosophy, Translation theory, and 26 moreMaghreb studies, Morocco, Arabic translation, Sound studies, Listening, African Art, African Art History, Contemporary African art, Art Theory and Politics, Art and Politics, History of slavery in the Mediterrenean, History of Slavery, Slavery, Moroccan Literature, Morocco. Culture, Moroccan Studies, Moroccan Arabic, Maroc, Critical Race Theory, Race and Racism, Race and Ethnicity, Critical Mixed Race Studies, Trans-Saharan trade, Pan Africanism, Pan-Africanism, and Language contactedit
Like the return of a historical repressed, recent Trans-Saharan migrations have powerfully reawakened older imaginaries of travel and trade across the Sahara. Several years ago, I set out to study the history of these imaginaries as a... more
Like the return of a historical repressed, recent Trans-Saharan migrations have powerfully reawakened older imaginaries of travel and trade across the Sahara. Several years ago, I set out to study the history of these imaginaries as a step toward understanding contemporary racial dynamics in North Africa. Little did I know how structuring trans-Saharan slavery had been for Moroccan society, or how my own family was implicated in it. This piece is an attempt at articulating the web of questions that arose from that process. Part of it was initially written in 2017 as an email letter to NourbeSe Philip, with whom I was then engaged in a collaborative writing project around the histories and afterlives of trans-Saharan slavery. The version below first appeared in oral form in January 2021, with additional sound recordings and musical pieces, as a contribution to the Archive of Forgetfulness podcast, hosted from South Africa by Bongani Kona and Huda Tayob (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/episode-8-how-might-we-trace-the-afterlives-of/id1539289236?i=1000506705780 ).
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in Adam Pendleton: Who We Are. Galerie Max Hetzler, 2019.
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in M. Berrada, D. Beuthner, F. El Oufir (eds), Material Insanity. Marrakech: MACAAL, 2019.
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in Frances Richard (ed.), I Stand in My Place With My Own Day Here: Site-Specific Art at The New School. Duke University Press, 2019.
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Texte paru dans "Jean Genet, un saint marocain", numéro spécial de la revue Nejma, dirigé par Abdellah Taïa (Tanger, 2010)
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Extrait du livre collectif "Le tissu de nos singularités - Vivre ensemble au Maroc" (dir. Fadma Aït Mous & Driss Ksikes. Casablanca, éditions En toutes lettres, 2016)
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Research Interests: Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, Modern Arab Art, Palestinian Cinema, Lebanese Cinema, Arab Cinema, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Cultural Studies, Ethnology, Cultural Production, Film, Art, Theatre, Social Media, and Modern and Contemporary Arab art and museums
Translated from the French by Deke Dusinberre
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in Blackboard, catalogue of Bouchra Khalili's solo exhibition at Jeu de Paume National Gallery, Paris, 2018.