Biography

Samia Saliba (she/her/hers) is a PhD student in American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California  and a member of USC’s Critical Southwest Asia/North Africa (SWANA) Studies Research Cluster. Her work engages themes of gender violence, policing/counterterrorism, and imperialism in SWANA and its diasporas. She is a member of the Radius of Arab American Writers and her creative writing has been published in Mizna, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Apogee, and elsewhere. 

Education

  • BA Western Washington University, 3/2020
  • Research Keywords

    Critical Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) Studies, Arab American Studies, Global South feminism, history of empire, feminist political economy, international relations, economic statecraft & sanctions