Farouk El Maarouf

E-Mail: Farouk.El-maarouf@gcsc.uni-giessen.de

Farouk El Maarouf is a cultural studies scholar and Ph.D. candidate at the International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Justus Liebig University Giessen, with an affiliation to Ibn Tofail University, Kénitra. His ethnographic work examines vernacular art communities, alternative economies, and cultural practices in contemporary Morocco. Research interests span postdigital media, precarious and marginal communities, youth activism, decolonial theory, and migration studies. He is a former MECAM fellow and is currently developing a postdoctoral project on migration, hope, and digital mobilization in Morocco. This project explores how platformed publics, rumor, and aspiration reshape belonging, value, and imagination.