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July Blalack
Sciences Po (Paris Institute of Political Studies)
Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
African Studies
Arab Studies
Arabic
Colonialism
Comparative
Islamic Thought
Language Acquisition
Maghreb Studies
Mysticism/Sufi Studies
Pop Culture
Geographic Areas of Interest
Algeria
Islamic World
Maghreb
Mauritania
Morocco
Sahara
Specialties
Mauritania
Sahara
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
English (native)
French (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2022 | Center for Cultural, Literary, and Postcolonial Studies | SOAS, University of London
MA | 2021 | Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language | Middlebury College
MA | 2014 | Middle Eastern South Asian Languages and Cultures | University of Virginia
Abstracts
Travel Outside and Inside: Maghrebi Sufi Response to Foreign Invasion West of the Sahara before the Western Sahara: “Bilad al-Shinquit” in Precolonial Arabic Sources Hidayat man hara fi amr al-Nasara: Space, Belonging, and Siba in the 19th c. Sahara Saharan Orature: Gathering an Ephemeral Desert Archive Crossing the Line: Gender, Slavery, and Political Solidarity in Mauritanian Women’s Novels