The politics of authorlessness and appropriation in Bidan women’s tebra‘, from 1953 archive to contemporary anthologies 2020–2024

This article provides the first sustained, collection-based study of tebra‘ as a living poetic form that negotiates intimate, communal, and global crises. Unedited transcriptions and translations of a previously unstudied 1953 field recording from the Adrar region illuminate first-generation (…)