Desert Imaginations: A History of Saharanism and Its Radical Consequences

by Brahim El Guabli

330 pages, Hardcover

Published November 4, 2025

About the author

I am Black, Amazigh Indigenous scholar from Morocco, but I live and teach in the United States. I am the author of Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship after State Violence, which received L. Carol Brown AIMS Best Book Award in 2024. I am also the author of the forthcoming Desert Imaginations: A History of History of Saharanism and Its Radical Consequences, which explains why deserts are dismissed and mistreated globally. My third book is entitled Amazighitude: Essays on Living Amazigh Indigeneity in the World, and it is an essay about being Amazigh and navigating life from that perspective.
I have also coedited the two volumes of Lamalif: A Critical Anthology of Societal Debates in Morocco During the “Years of Lead” and Remembering Jews in Maghrebi and Middle Eastern Media.