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Jul 12, 2024 | 
themarkaz.org | Brahim El Guabli
Reading Time :12 minutesAlthough Bīylmawn has recently made a forceful return thanks to its revitalization by Amazigh civil society in the Souss, the highly aestheticized and artistically choreographed innovative reinterpretation of the carnival in the areas south of the High Atlas has not been to everyone’s delight. Brahim El GuabliBīylmawn festivities this year are mired in even greater controversies than in the previous years.
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Jan 15, 2024 | 
themarkaz.org | Brahim El Guabli
As an enormous solar power plant springs up in the Moroccan desert near Ouarzazate, reconfiguring its visual and territorial makeup, there are worries it might overshadow the region’s rich cultural history. Brahim El GuabliI grew up in an arid region. Anyone raised in a desert environment knows that arid areas help you develop a strong sense of observation. You remember when a small plant appeared to change the look of your environment.
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Nov 5, 2023 | 
themarkaz.org | Brahim El Guabli
The perception of deserts as spaces devoid of life has justified exploitation and experimentation, yet deserts could push our thinking beyond ordinary notions of space and place. Brahim El GuabliThe desert made global headlines twice this past summer. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer was released in July, recounting the story of the man who turned the New Mexico desert into a testing ground for the first nuclear bomb.
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Oct 5, 2023 | 
architectural-review.com | Brahim El Guabli |Reuben Brown
The perception of deserts as spaces devoid of life has justified exploitation and experimentation, yet deserts could push our thinking beyond ordinary notions of space and placeThe desert made global headlines twice this summer. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer was released in July, recounting the story of the man who turned the New Mexico desert into a testing ground for the first nuclear bomb.
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Sep 25, 2023 | 
themarkaz.org | Brahim El Guabli
The expectation that indigenous Moroccans in the Atlas Mountains would be able to answer questions in Arabic was the result of a diehard myth that everyone who lives in the land between Morocco and Iraq is Arab and speaks Arabic fluently. The truth, however, is that this expansive territory is full of indigenous communities that have their languages and cultures although they belong to larger nation-states. Brahim El GuabliEveryone feels pain.
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Sep 20, 2023 | 
dawnmena.org | Brahim El Guabli
When the earthquake struck late at night, entire villages in Morocco's High Atlas Mountains collapsed in on themselves in a matter of seconds. More than 50,000 homes were completely or partly demolished by the 6.8 magnitude earthquake, the strongest to hit Morocco in more than a century.
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Sep 20, 2023 | 
williamsrecord.com | Brahim El Guabli
Last week was a horrific week for Moroccans all around the world. The country was struck by an unprecedented 6.8-magnitude earthquake on Sept. 8 at 11:20 p.m. The earthquake decimated its epicenter in the High Atlas, which is part of central Morocco, but its reverberations were felt as far as Lisbon, Portugal. The affected zones have a population of around 600,000, and over a million including Marrakesh.
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Sep 11, 2023 | 
znetwork.org | Brahim El Guabli |Juan Gonzalez |Juan González |Amy Goodman |Abdellah El Haloui
We get an update from Morocco, which has declared three days of mourning after the strongest earthquake to hit the region in at least a century. About 2,500 people died in the 6.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the country on Friday, with another 2,500 injured and the death toll expected to rise. The epicenter was in the High Atlas Mountains located about 44 miles from Marrakech, where many villages remain largely inaccessible and lack both electricity and running water.
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Sep 11, 2023 | 
themarkaz.org | Brahim El Guabli
A Moroccan Amazigh scholar from southern Morocco urgently tries to reach family in Ouarzazate after a frantic message from his distraught sister following the 6.8 earthquake that hit the Atlas Mountains region last Friday. The earthquake has caused widespread damage in the provinces and municipalities of al-Haouz, Marrakesh, Ouarzazate, Azilal, Chichaoua and Taroudant. Brahim El GuabliI was at an early work dinner on the East Coast when the earthquake hit Morocco on Friday, September 8, 2023.
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Aug 14, 2023 | 
themarkaz.org | Brahim El Guabli
Translation must find the truest rendering and in this original essay on the translation of Amazigh languages, the writer argues that to translate is to revitalize, giving indigenous cultures a larger place at the table. Brahim El GuabliTradurre é tradire: translation is betrayal. Thus goes the saying that generations of translators and scholars of translation have grappled and are still grappling with. Translation is betrayal, but I have always wondered who and which language translation betrays.
