Women's role in Morocco's «Years of Lead» and the revival of Amazigh culture

In this interview, Moroccan researcher Brahim El Guabli emphasizes the significant role Moroccan women played during the «Years of Lead», both as victims of political repression and as active participants in resisting state violence. The researcher also discusses rehabilitating Amazigh cultural production, historical marginalization of Amazigh culture due to aggressive Arabization policies, and the importance of fully integrating Tamazight into educational systems and public life.

Beyond the trauma : How Moroccans created other-archives to document «Years of Lead»

Brahim El Guabli is Associate Professor of Arabic Studies at Williams College, a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts. The interdisciplinary scholar, works at the intersection of several disciplinary fields, including Amazigh Studies, Arabic Studies, Francophone Studies, Memory Studies, historiography, and environmental humanities. Trained in comparative literature, the Moroccan speaks to Yabiladi about his early work «Moroccan Other-Archives: History and