Omar Berrada

Editor

Omar Berrada speaking into mic

Omar Berrada is a writer, translator and curator, and the director of Dar al-Ma’mûn, a library and artists residency in Marrakech. Previously, he organized public programs at Centre Pompidou and hosted shows on French national radio. His work focuses on the politics of translation and intergenerational transmission. He is the author of Clonal Hum (2020), and the editor or co-editor of several books, including Album – Cinémathèque de Tanger, a multilingual volume about film in Tangier and Tangier on film (2012), The Africans, a book on migration and racial politics in Morocco (2016), and Ahmed Bouanani’s posthumous history of Moroccan cinema, La Septième Porte (2020). Currently living in New York, he teaches at The Cooper Union where he and Leslie Hewitt co-organize the IDS Lecture Series.

Omar Berrada has served as a member of the Board of Directors of Ether Sea Projects, Inc./ Litmus Press since 2018.

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Another Room to Live In: 15 Contemporary Arab Poets
Edited By Omar Berrada, Sarah Riggs

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