The Feminist and Transnational Sociology (FTS) group is pleased to invite you to a workshop by Dr. Mariam Karim on anti-colonial feminist archival storytelling and Arab women’s media history.

This workshop outlines Nasawiyyah digital storytelling as an anti-colonial feminist approach to recovering Arab women’s media histories. It introduces practical tools for navigating multilingual and dispersed records across institutional, personal, and digital archives. Following an Arabyya (Hamzeh, 2019) and decolonial archival praxis (Ghaddar & Caswell, 2019) methodology, the workshop demonstrates how these records can be creatively mobilized to generate deeper understandings of Arab feminist thought and struggle.

Required Reading for Workshop Participants

• Hamzeh, M., & Flores Carmona, J. (2019). Arabyyah and Mexicana Co-Teaching-Learning Testimonios of Revolutionary Women: A Pedagogy of Solidarity. The Educational Forum, 83(3), 325–337. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131725.2019.1599661 
• Ghaddar, J. J., & Caswell, M. (2019). “To go beyond”: towards a decolonial archival praxis. Archival Science, 19(2), 71–85. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-019-09311-1 
• Karim, M. A. (2025). “The colonial politics of British publishing: Revisiting Matiel Mogannam’s (1937) The Arab Woman & the Palestine Problem.” Communication, Culture & Critique. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcaf034 

Registration

This workshop is open to all junior & senior social scientists, and ReMa / BaMa students. To participate in the workshop, please register via: l.sirri@uva.nl

About the Speaker

Dr. Mariam Karim is a Lebanese-Iraqi Global Postdoctoral Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South at Northwestern University in Qatar and founder of the digital humanities project Nasawiyyah: Arab Media History. She is also a member of the Steering Council of the Archives & Digital Media Lab.

Her research explores Arab feminist media from the twentieth century onward, examining Arabic mass media in relation to colonialism, media imperialism, and contemporary digital cultures. Her work has appeared in Communication, Culture & Critique and First Monday.