Sophia Azeb

Sophia Azeb is an assistant professor of Black studies in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. Her current book project, “Another Country: Constellations of Blackness in Afro-Arab Cultural Expression,” examines how Blackness and Black identity is variously translated, mobilized, circulated, and contested by African American, Afro-Caribbean, African, and Afro-Arab cultural and political figures in North Africa and Europe in the twentieth century. She is a regular contributor to The Funambulist magazine.