Idriss Jebari is Al Maktoum Assistant Professor in Middle East Studies at Trinity College Dublin. He is a historian of Arab thought and his research focuses on North African cultural and social history after its independences from France, on the radical sixties and seventies, on collective memory in the Arab world, and its role for reconciliation processes and transitional justice. After completing his doctorate on the history of the production of critical thought in Morocco and Tunisia at the University of Oxford, he held a postdoctoral research fellowship at the American University of Beirut (Lebanon), and a teaching fellowship in Middle East and North African history at Bowdoin College in Maine (USA). He is currently working on the histories and memories of leftist groups in North Africa between nostalgia, amnesia and the archive.