Brahim El Guabli

Brahim El Guabli is an Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University's Krieger School of Arts & Sciences. His research focuses on Amazigh Studies, Arabic Studies, Indigenous Studies, and Desert Studies, with a particular emphasis on Tamazghan (North Africa) and Middle Eastern literatures.

His scholarship appears in journals like PMLA, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, and The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry. He is the author of Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship after State Violence (winner of the 2024 L. Carol Brown AIMS Best Book Award) and Desert Imaginations, and co-editor of volumes like Lamalif: A Critical Anthology of Societal Debates in Morocco During the 'Years of Lead'.

El Guabli co-founded the Tamazgha Studies Journal and the Amazigh Studies series with Georgetown University Press, advancing interdisciplinary research on Amazigh indigeneity and multilingualism. His work bridges postcolonial theory, memory studies, and decolonial thought.