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July Blalack

July Blalack

July Blalack is a researcher and translator specializing in North African literary history. She holds a Ph.D. from SOAS, University of London. Her research article “Hidāyat: The Western Sahara’s Missing Witness” won the 2020 Mark Tessler Paper Prize.

Latest from July Blalack

The Sudanese Mahdiyya: When Doomsday Visions Fortified the Struggle for Independence

The Sudanese Mahdiyya: When Doomsday Visions Fortified the Struggle for Independence

When taken in a wider regional context, it becomes clear that the association of the Mahdi and his coming with a time of unbearable oppression and Muslims’ eventual military triumph against all odds made it the perfect story to motivate an impossible fight.

July Blalack