TAMAZGHA STUDIES JOURNAL

Established in 2023 as an Open Access interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal

Volume 5 • Issue 1 • Summer 2026

ISSN: 3066-3369

Tidaf' photo courtesy of Lahbib Fouad

Volume 5 image courtesy of Brahim El Guabli

Table of Contents

Volume 5 • Issue 1 • Summer 2026
Language: English

Introduction

Tamazgha: Foundations and Horizons for New Directions in Scholarship

Aomar Boum, Brahim El Guabli, and Katarzyna Pieprzak
Volume 5 • Issue 1 • Summer 2026
Pages 1-4
Language: English

Peer Reviewed Articles

Tifinagh as a Reading of the World: Tuareg Perspectives

Hélène Claudot-Hawad
Volume 5 • Issue 1 • Summer 2026
Pages 5-24
Language: English

Could Weaving Be the Ancestor of Writing in the Amazigh Language?

Fatima Sadiqi 
Volume 5 • Issue 1 • Summer 2026
Pages 25-51
Language: English

Amazigh Language Teaching in Morocco

Yassine Boussagui
Volume 5 • Issue 1 • Summer 2026
Pages 52-70
Language: English

The Amazigh as the Internal Other in Myopia: Challenging State Management of Space, Exclusion and Dominance

Yahya Laayouni
Volume 5 • Issue 1 • Summer 2026
Pages 71-87
Language: English

Pedagogy Roundtable

Introduction: Tamazgha as an Object of Pedagogy

Brahim El Guabli
Volume 5 • Issue 1 • Summer 2026
Pages 88-90
Language: English

Indigenous Amazigh Curriculum: The Importance of Positionality and Relationality

Mounia Mnouer
Volume 5 • Issue 1 • Summer 2026
Pages 91-99
Language: English

Translating and Teaching Tamazgha

Paul A. Silverstein
Volume 5 • Issue 1 • Summer 2026
Pages 100-104
Language: English

Teaching Imazighen in “Indigenous Ecologies”

Brahim El Guabli
Volume 5 • Issue 1 • Summer 2026
Pages 105-112
Language: English

Critical Translations

The Complete English Translation of the Tarifit Epic of Dhar Ubarran (with an Introduction & Notes)

Azzeddine Tajjiou
Volume 5 • Issue 1 • Summer 2026
Pages 113-131
Language: English

Interviews

Interview with Dr. Nabil Boudraa

TJS
Volume 5 • Issue 1 • Summer 2026
Pages 132-136
Language: English

Interview with Drs. Habiba Boumlik, Lucy McNair, Yahya Laayoui, and Wafa Bahri

TJS
Volume 5 • Issue 1 • Summer 2026
Pages 137-153
Language: English

Interview with Dr. Shamil Jeppie

TJS
Volume 5 • Issue 1 • Summer 2026
Pages 154-157
Language: English

Book Reviews

Review of Katarzyna Pieprzak’s book Poetics of Repair: Contemporary Arts and Afterlives of Colonial-Era Mass Housing in the Maghreb

Matthew Brauer
Volume 5 • Issue 1 • Summer 2026
Pages 158-160
Language: English

Review of Alfonso Casani’s Contemporary Islamist Opposition in Morocco: Resisting Inclusion and Moderation

Mohamed Chtatou
Volume 5 • Issue 1 • Summer 2026
Pages 161-163
Language: English

Review of Brahim El Guabli’s Desert Imaginations: A History of Saharanism and Its Radical Consequences

Liz Matsushita
Volume 5 • Issue 1 • Summer 2026
Pages 164-166
Language: English

Review of Fatima Sadiqi’s Women and the Codification of the Amazigh Language

Bruce Maddy-Weitzman
Volume 5 • Issue 1 • Summer 2026
Pages 167-169
Language: English

Volume 4 • Issue 1 • Fall 2025

Volume 4 image courtesy of Carlos Perez Marin

Table of Contents

Volume 4 • Issue 1 • Fall 2025
Language: English

Introduction: Tamazghan Futures: Forging a Humanistic Approach

TSJ Editors
Volume 4 • Issue 1 • Fall 2025
Pages 2-4
Language: English

Art Research and Tamazgha Futurity

Cultural Expressions of Class Conflict in the Apple Orchard

Nadir Bouhmouch and Soumeya Ait Ahmed  
Volume 4 • Issue 1 • Fall 2025
Pages 5-28
Language: English

Inhabiting the Desert   

Carlos Perez Marin
Volume 4 • Issue 1 • Fall 2025
Pages 29-30
Language: English

Amazigh Matrimoine from Fragments to Futures 

Interview with Raïssa Leï
Volume 4 • Issue 1 • Fall 2025
Pages 31-40
Language: English

Tamazghan Literary Futures

Interview with Ahmed Haddachi
Volume 4 • Issue 1 • Fall 2025
Pages 41-45
Language: English

Tamazghan Artist Diasporas

Interview with Alia Bensliman
Volume 4 • Issue 1 • Fall 2025
Pages 46-51
Language: English

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Standardization of Tifinagh Writing and its Adequacy

Abderazaq Ichou and Said Fathi
Volume 4 • Issue 1 • Fall 2025
Pages 52-67
Language: English

New Directions

Green Hydrogen from Morocco: European Decarbonization by Recolonization

Ouafa Haddioui 
Volume 4 • Issue 1 • Fall 2025
Pages 68-84
Language: English

The Tribar Signs in RIL Inscriptions

Samir Oujhain and Abdellah El Haloui
Volume 4 • Issue 1 • Fall 2025
Pages 85-105
Language: English

Essays

Westermarck Investigates the Intricacies of the Culture of the Imazighen of Morocco

Mohamed Chtatou
Volume 4 • Issue 1 • Fall 2025
Pages 106-133
Language: English

Book Reviews

Lucy R. McNair and Yahya Laayouni, eds., Amazigh Cinema: An Introduction to North African Indigenous Film

Reviewed by Abdelaziz El Amrani
Volume 4 • Issue 1 • Fall 2025
Pages 134-136
Language: English

Christopher Silver, Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa

Reviewed by Lhoussain Simour
Volume 4 • Issue 1 • Fall 2025
Pages 137-139
Language: English

Orit Ouaknine-Yekutieli, Thami al-Glaoui: Morocco’s Greatest Pasha

Reviewed by Sadik Rddad
Volume 4 • Issue 1 • Fall 2025
Pages 140-144
Language: English

Brahim El Guabli, Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship after State Violence

Reviewed by Faska Elhoucine
Volume 4 • Issue 1 • Fall 2025
Pages 145-148
Language: English

Literature

The Free People

Layla Hannah Rafaoui
Volume 4 • Issue 1 • Fall 2025
Pages 149-151
Language: English

Blog

The Invisible Costs of No-Amazigh-Studies

Brahim El Guabli
Volume 4 • Issue 1 • Fall 2025
Pages 152-154
Language: English