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Research Papers · 2024

Moroccan Other Archives, Memory & Methodology

A historiographical essay on Brahim El Guabli's Moroccan Other-Archives — how memory studies reframe Morocco's Years of Lead, Tamazight erasure, and Jewish-Moroccan memory as living sources when the state archive stays closed.

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Research Papers · 2026

From Colonies to Carriers — A History of Postcolonial African Airlines

The full research paper (49 pp.) tracing how newly independent African states used civil aviation — Royal Air Maroc and its peers — to project sovereignty and build postcolonial institutions, backed by an original airline dataset.

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Research Papers · 2026

How Highways Decided Morocco's Victory in the Western Sahara Conflict

Capstone research paper (40 pp.) arguing that road infrastructure — not only diplomacy or arms — built the infrastructural power and sovereignty recognition behind Morocco’s position in Western Sahara, 1975–2025.

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Research Papers · 2025

The Finances of River Transport in Colonial Senegal

Co-authored archival study (with Anta Idya Sall) of the economics of river transport on the Senegal River under French colonial rule — how freight, concessions, and subsidy shaped a colonial transport economy.

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Research Papers · 2026

Truth After Tazmamart — Research paper

Research paper on Morocco's Equity and Reconciliation Commission, the Years of Lead, and the political logic of transitional justice without punishment.

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Slide Decks · 2026

From Colonies to Carriers — Presentation deck

Full 27-slide deck presented at NC State — the complete argument on postcolonial African civil aviation, Royal Air Maroc, and the dataset.

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Slide Decks · 2026

Western Sahara Highways — Capstone presentation deck

Presentation deck (22 slides) for the NC State Graduate History Conference — arguing how highway infrastructure helped Morocco normalize sovereignty claims over Western Sahara.

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Slide Decks · 2026

Truth After Tazmamart — Presentation deck

20-slide deck on Morocco's Equity and Reconciliation Commission, Tazmamart prison, and how truth commissions navigate accountability under constrained political conditions.

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Public Scholarship · 2026

Western Sahara Roads — Time-series one-pager

Methodology one-pager documenting the OSM and ohsome workflow for tracking Western Sahara road stock year-by-year from 2008 to 2025.

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Mohammed VI Library at Al Akhawayn University — Photograph Research · Mohammed VI Library, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco.

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Moroccan Other Archives, Memory & Methodology

From Colonies to Carriers — A History of Postcolonial African Airlines

How Highways Decided Morocco's Victory in the Western Sahara Conflict

The Finances of River Transport in Colonial Senegal

Truth After Tazmamart — Research paper

From Colonies to Carriers — Presentation deck

Western Sahara Highways — Capstone presentation deck

Truth After Tazmamart — Presentation deck

Western Sahara Roads — Time-series one-pager

A closer look at the work and the places.

An archival base in Ifrane

A visit to Chefchaouen

At the edge of Erg Chebbi

Arabic letters, made tangible

Two tracks of evidence

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