Idriss Jebari is an Assistant Professor in Middle East Studies at Trinity College Dublin who researches North African cultural history and Arab thought.

After completing his doctorate on the history of the production of critical thought in Morocco and Tunisia at the University of Oxford, he has held a postdoctoral fellowship at the American University of Beirut to study the dynamics of intellectual and cultural exchanges between the Maghrib and the Mashriq. He held an Andrew Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at Bowdoin College (Maine, USA) where he taught Middle East History. He has published on the intellectual projects of several radical North African intellectual figures such as Abdelkebir Khatibi, Mohamed Abed al-Jabri and Malek Bennabi, and on the theory and practice of Arab intellectual engagements in public affairs. He also works on collective memory of leftist groups in the Arab world and its role for reconciliation processes and transitional justice.