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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
Arab Studies
Islamic Thought
Mysticism/Sufi Studies
Maghreb Studies
African Studies
Arabic
Comparative
Colonialism
Language Acquisition
Pop Culture
Geographic Areas of Interest
Mauritania
Morocco
Algeria
Sahara
Maghreb
Islamic World
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