Publication

2025
“Neo-Chaabi as Long-Distance Disobedience: Activist Art, Archival Aesthetics, and the Crisis of Poetic Agency” (book chapter)
The IB Tauris academic book series: Political Communication and Media Practices in the Middle East and North Africa
Book title: Art Against Authoritarianism in Southwest Asia and North Africa
DOI: 10.5040/9780755650682.0010
2024
“Conference Report on ‘Disrupted Identities in the Light of Post-Everything’” (report)
KULT_online. No. 70, KULT_reports at the Gießener Graduiertenzentrum Kulturnwissenschaften (GGK)
Co-authors: Morteza Azimi, Erzhena Dugarova, Sandra Engels, Anastasiia Marsheva
DOI: 10.22029/ko.2024.1479
“Disaster-Funny in Postdigital age: Memesis and the Manifold Nature of Humour in Crisis” (original article)
Postdigital Science and Education, Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s42438-024-00502-3
“Al-kamahiyatiya (Asitism): the Politics of Waiting and not Waiting for Change” (original article)
Journal of Critical African Studies. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
Co-authors: Moulay Driss El Maarouf and Taieb Belghazi
DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2024.2310809
“Farah Nuruddin. North of Dawn: Between Movement and Disrupted Identities” (book review)
Volume 7 of International University of Rabat’s «Afriques en Mouvement» Journal
2023
“Plagues and Religion in Morocco: A Historial Perspective” (original article)
Al Misbahia – Revue de la Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines Sais – Fes
Co-authors: Samir Bouzouita and Moulay Driss El Maarouf
“Shikhat, Nashat and (Un)serious Theory” (original article)
Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 16. Brill
Co-authors: Moulay Driss El Maarouf and Taieb Belghazi
DOI: 10.1163/18739865-01603002
“Treasure Hunting in Morocco and the Rise of the Echonomy” (original article)
Journal of Anthropological Research, University of Chicago Press
Co-author: Moulay Driss El Maarouf
DOI: 10.1086/723072
2022
“Street art, festivity, and the politics of possession in the Moroccan urban space” (essay)
MECAM Papers
DOI: 10.25673/86247
http://nbnresolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:3:5-1351414153-1807184978-13
“Coming to Terms with Marginal Art(ists) in Morocco” (blog)
TRAFO Blog for Transregional Research. MECAM
https://trafo.hypotheses.org/33635
2021
“Game Without Game: (un)timely Teen Politics in Morocco” (original article)
Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, Brill
Co-authors: Moulay Driss El Maarouf and Taieb Belghazi
DOI: 10.1163/18739865-01403006
“The Chromatic Performance of Yassine Balbzioui” (essay)
Book by Iwalewahaus: Universität Bayreuth
Book title: Yassine Balbzioui: Identity to Rent
ISBN: 978-3-947902-02-6
2020
“City as Canvas: Street Art(ists), Walls and the City between State Patronage and Artistic Transformation” (original article)
Journal of Matatu, 51. Brill
Co-author: Moulay Driss El Maarouf
DOI: 10.1163/18757421-05101009
“Covid-19: A Critical Ontology of the Present” (original article)
Journal of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
Co-authors: Moulay Driss El Maarouf and Taieb Belghazi
DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2020.1757426mea aperiam
Accepted, forthcoming 2025
“‘My Mother was a Computer Fish’: Re-thinking the Human, Re-imagining the Humane in the Postdigital Turn”
Book chapter in Postdigital Imaginations: Critiques, Methods, and Interventions, Springer
“Fractured Belonging: Diasporic Subjectivities and Gendered Radicalization in Tabish Khair’s Just Another Jihadi Jane”
Original publication in the European Journal of English Studies, Taylor & Francis

Workshops

08/02/2024:
“Redefining Knowledge: an Introduction to Postcolonial and Decolonial Thinking”
o Funded by: The International Ph.D. Program (IPP)
o At: Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
06/12/2022:
“Muslima Theology: A Critical Analysis of Feminism in the Arab World”
o Funded by: The International Ph.D. Program (IPP)
o At: Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
20/05/2022:
“Coming to Terms with Qualitative Research: An Introduction to Writing Ethnography”
o Funded by: Teaching Centre: STIBET
o At: Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany

Conference Organization

24/05/2024:

Round Table: “Decoloniality of Knowledge and Methods”
Part of the conference ‘Knowledge – Between Discursive Construction and Cultural Contextualization’
Organized by GCSC and DiscourseNet
Co-organized and chaired the round table

4-16/05/2024:

“Disrupted Identities in the light of ‘Post-Everything'”
Co-organized by five members of Research Area 6: Cultural Identities. GGK/GCSC
Featured:
15 individual presentations
2 keynote lectures by Dr. Danielle Drozdzewski and Dr. Báyò Akómoláfé
Workshop by Giovana De Souza Possignolo
Chaired Dr. Danielle Drozdzewski’s keynote and one panel

Presentations

06-11/07/2025:
Speaker at the International Sociology Association (ISA), 5th Forum of Sociology in Rabat, Morocco
o Presentation 1 and panel chairing: “Digital Tides: A Genealogy of Social Media Influence on Morocco-Ceuta Migration Waves.”
o Presentation 2: “Towards a Theory of Aesthetics of the Margin: Exploring Vernacular Artistic, Communities, Beauty, and Social Precarity.”
15/03/2025:
Speaker at IMISCOE Spring Conference 2025, organized by the University for Continuing Education Krems, Department for Migration and Globalisation.
o Presentation: “Unity in Victory, Division in Departure: Nationalism and Illegal Migration in Post-Colonial Morocco.”
05/02/2025:
Co-lecture with Prof. Dr. Nadia Butt at Goethe University Frankfurt. Organized byTrans.Arch and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.
o Presentation: “Islam, the West, and the New Anglophone Literatures: An Introduction.”
04-06/10/2024:
Speaker at the international conference Political Narratives:
Interdisciplinary and Transmedial Perspectives organized by the Research Centre for the Study of Culture (RCSC), Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
o Presentation: “From International Glory to Death Boats: The Paradoxical Narratives between National Progress and Illegal Migration in Postcolonial Morocco”
23/10/2024:
Guest speaker at Research Delegation Babel Initiative organized by Sciences Po Paris, France
o Presentation: “Doing Research in Morocco: Art between patronage, freedom of expression, and social precarity”
24-29/06/2024:
Speaker at XIV Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture, Lisnbon, Portugal
o Theme: Culture at War
o Presentation: “Beyond Violence: Coming to Grips with Childhood War Games in Post-Colonial Morocco”
02-05/11/2023:
Speaker at Middle East Studies Association (MESA) in Montreal, Canada
o Panel: Time Frames: Art as an Embodied Practice of Time from an Anthropological Perspective
o Presentation: “Al-‘Atara as a Marginal Community: Negotiating Art and its Practices from Below”
11-14/10/2023:
Speaker at the Annual Conference of the African Multiple Cluster of Excellence, Bayreuth, Germany
o Theme: Reconfiguring African Studies Through Spatialities
o Panel: Knowledge and Location
o Presentation: “Treasure Hunting and the Dynamics of the Soil”
17-19/03/2023:
Speaker at MECAM conference “Imagining Futures – Dealing with Disparity”, Tunis, Tunisia
o Panel: “Aesthetics & Cultural Practice”: Disparity and Future Models in Arab Literature and Arts
o Presentation: “Waiting, Art Practitioners, Hope, and Never-Ending Queues”
22-24/06/2022:
Speaker at SeSaMo 2022 conference organized by University of Naples L’Orientale, Naples, Germany
o Panel: Class, a Useful Category for Ethnography? Case Studies from Egypt and Morocco
o Presentation: “The Task of the Ethnographer: Waiting and Vernacular Art Communities as a Precarious Social category”
29/04/2022:
Talk at the research group “Figures of Thought, Turning Points”, Marburg, Germany
o DFG, Leibniz,the Center for Near and Middle East Studies (CNMS), Phillips-Marburg University
o Presentation: “Traveling optics of the weak: invisible art practitioners and the pursuit of beauty in Morocco”
20-30/03/2022:
Public Presentation and workshop at Tunis University, Tunis, Tunisia
o Presentation: “Street Art, Festivity and The Politics of Possession in The Moroccan Urban Space”
22/07/2021:
Online public presentation organized by the Center for Near and Middle East Studies (CNMS), Phillips-Marburg University
o Presentation: “The Aesthetics of the Margin: Vernacular Art Communities in Morocco”
20-21/01/2021:
Speaker at the online conference New Covid-Reality?: Philosophy’s Voice In and For the Crisis, organized by COCO I
o Presentation: “COVID-19: Knowing our Disasters Through Memesis”
27-29/11/2019:
Land Conference organized by the University of Cape Town
o Presentation: “When Archeology Meets its Arc: The Soil and Its Diggers in Times of Precariousness”
27-29/06/2019:
ISCAE-ENCG Settat Model United Nations, Casa Blanca, Morocco

Teaching experience

2023/2024: Co-teacher
Seminar: Gender and Genre: Arab-Anglophone Literature in a Global Context
Winter Semester 23/24, English Studies Institute—Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
2022/2023: Co-teacher
Seminar: Islam, the West, and the New Anglophone Literatures: An Introduction
Winter Semester 22/23, English Studies Institute—Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
2022: Co-teacher
Seminar: Gender and Genre: Arab Anglophone Literature in a Global Context
Summer Semester 22, English Studies Institute—Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany