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Rachid Benharrousse is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Mohamed V in Rabat. His primary doctoral research traces the ontology of the Maghrebian obsession with Illegal border-crossing in Maghrebian Literature. He has been a Research Fellow at the Moroccan Cultural Studies Center, the University of Fez, a researcher at the Paris Institute for Critical Thinking (PICT), an Early Career Researcher at the Association of Middle Eastern Women's Studies, and a Researcher at the Palah Light Lab, University of Buffalo. Recently, Benharrousse was a Researcher of Digital Studies at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University under the Digital Self-Determination Research Sprint; in the latter, his research has theorized the concept of Digital Self-Determination through Arab, Decolonial perspectives. He is the author of Digital Poetry and the Transcendence of Print Poetry's Boundaries: Interactivity and the Reader.