Volume 1- Fall 2023

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction
Brahim El Guabli, Katarzyna Pieprzak, Aomar Boum 3-6

PEER REVIEWED

2. The Idea of Tamazgha: Current Articulations and Scholarly Potential

Brahim El Guabli 7-22

3. The Productive Plurality of Tamazgha: Boundaries, Intersections, Frictions

Paul A. Silverstein 23-34

4. Tamazgha: espace(s), langue(s) et communauté(s) en construction au Nord de l’Afrique

Malika Assam 35-44

5. Tamazgha as Indigeneity-Informed Approach: Transforming Scholarship on Borders and

Migration
Heide Castañeda 45-54

6. La Poétique de la Trace et Tamazgha

Nabil Boudraa 55-64

7. Écriture du corps et de l’espace dans le roman feminin en amazighe tachelhit

Fadma Farras 65-79

8. Tents, Turbans, and Veils: Ait Khabbash Heritage Production in 1990s Morocco
Cynthia Becker 80-98

9. The Official Archaeological Perspective in Morocco and the Rif Heritage

F. T. Azul U. Ramírez Rodríguez 99-113

10. Linguistic Cartographies: Navigating Amazigh Landscapes through Colonial ‘Berber

Dictionaries’
Aomar Boum 114-128
Editors

11. The Material Resurgence of Tamazight in the Moroccan Public Sphere: Possibilities and
Limits
Anouar El Younssi 129-140

WORKS-IN-PROGRESS

12. Why the Amazigh Studies Initiative in the United States Now?
Aomar Boum and Brahim El Guabli 141-152

ESSAY

13. Wandering Minstrels and Epic Poetry from Morocco’s Berber Highlands
Michael Peyron 153-158

TAMAZGHA GUEST

14. Noureddine Belhaj Telmta producer of YouTube Program “Souss El Alima”

Aomar Boum & Brahim El Guabli 159-164

TRANSLATION

15. Poems by Ahcene Mariche

Ghalia Bedrani 165-170

16. Chapter from Chabha Ben Gana’s novel Amsebrid

Translated by and edited by Ghalia Bedrani and Ben Connor 171-181

17. Women’s Poetry

Ghalia Bedrani 182-183

18. Poem by Mohammed Khair-Eddine

Elhabib Louai 184-186

19. The Beauty of the Night

Hafida Bouhmid 187

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