Biography

PhD Candidate in Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship, holds a Master in Contemporary Philosophy by Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal. Main research interests are Western Sahara, saharawi poetry, saharawi culture, muslim women, and Epistemologies of the South. Her academic and professional journey has been geared toward addressing questions that have emerged associated with these topics. Currently she is working on her PhD project, focused on poetry of women from the Western Sahara, entitled Voices of Western Sahara - the poetry, the singing, the dancing and the silence of Saharawi women (supervisors António de Sousa Ribeiro, Centre for Social Studies (CES) University of Coimbra and Juan Carlos Gimeno Martín, and Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM)), funded by FCT.