Malika Rebai Maamri

Malika Rebai Maamri is a professor and interdisciplinary researcher whose work spans politics, sociology, history, and literature. Her research focuses on postcolonial studies, identity, social justice, and democratic transformation, with particular attention to Algeria and the wider Global South. She holds a PhD jointly supervised by the University of Essex (UK) and the University of Bouzaréah (Algiers). She was a visiting fellow in the Cambridge/Africa research programme on Citizenship, Belonging, and Political Community in Africa at the Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge, where she remains a collaborative member.
She had been awarded a government scholarship to complete her doctoral research in the UK, along with several grants from her institution, École nationale supérieure des sciences politiques, in Algiers, as well as the Joseph Conrad Society (London), of which she was a long-standing member.
She is the editor of Mapping Forgiveness and co-editor of A Journey through Forgiveness (Inter-Disciplinary Press, Oxford), and has published widely in international journals and edited volumes. She is also the author of The State of Algeria: The Politics of a Postcolonial Legacy (I.B. Tauris, 2016).