Raad Khair Allah

Raad Khair Allah is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Arts/ Department of English and Comparative Literary, University of Warwick, UK. Her thesis title is ‘Contemporary Arab Women Writers, Filmmakers and Artists in an International Frame’. She is also a member of the seminar series organising committee at CSGW/Center for the Study of Women and Gender at the same institution. 

Prior to joining the University of Warwick, she worked as an English lecturer at Damascus University (part-time, 2009-2012) and the Syrian Private University (full-time, 2014-2018).

She has received a certificate of digital humanities for postgraduate researchers from the Faculty of Arts at Warwick University for her project "Marginalization of Arab Women and Revolutionising Patriarchy. In this project, she has used Miro to depict the severe suffering that most Arab women undergo because of the patriarchal ideology of society. She has also showed how Arab women writers, filmmakers and artists challenge and revolutionise prevailing notions of gender in the patriarchal Arab society. In particular, she is interested in themes of sexuality and war. Find more on the this project on this link.