Samia Saliba

Samia Saliba is a PhD candidate in American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California where she is a member of the Critical Southwest Asia/North Africa (SWANA) Studies Research Cluster. She received her B.A. in History from Western Washington University. Her dissertation, tentatively titled LA Intifada: Genealogies of Counter/Terrorism, Policing, and Uprising From Los Angeles To Palestine, examines the constructions and policing of terrorism over time and attends to how counterterrorism/counterinsurgency frameworks move between Los Angeles and Palestine during the late Cold War period. Her broader research interests include the intersections of gender violence, economic violence, carcerality, and imperialism in SWANA and its diasporas. She is the author of the chapbook conspiracy theories (Game Over Books, 2025). Her creative writing has been published in Mizna, Apogee, and elsewhere, and she reviews SWANA literature for the Radius of Arab American Writers blog. 

• BA Western Washington University, 3/2020