Dr Raad Khair Allah
Postdoctoral Fellow, September 2025 - February 2026
Home institution: University of Warwick
Dr. Raad Khair Allah is an IASH Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities. She is doing research on reimagining nationhood in Arab cultural and digital feminism. She has a PhD from the Faculty of Arts/ Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK. She was a former member of the seminar series organising committee at CSWG/Center for the Study of Women and Gender at the same institution for two years. She is also the organiser of the international hybrid Conference Radical Traditions: The Role of Contemporary Arab Women in Revolutionising Arab Patriarchal Society at the University of Warwick in 2024 to be a basis for a volume she is currently editing for Routledge,
(https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/schoolforcross-facultystudies/igsd/sdgnetwork/arab/ ).
She was shortlisted for the Paula Svonkin Creative Art Award at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference in Los Angeles, USA, 2022. In 2024, she was awarded the DAHL Hero Medal 2024 by The Digital Arts and Humanities Lab (DAHL) (University of Warwick). This recognition celebrates her groundbreaking digital project, Marginalization of Arab Women and Revolutionising Patriarchy.
In 2025, she received an award from Duke University (Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Department), USA, granting her the opportunity to participate in the International Annual Feminist Theory Workshop. In 2022, she was awarded the Barker Visiting Fellowship from Durham University, and in 2024 she received Balzan Award from Harvard University. As an Associate Fellow at the Higher Education Academy, she has worked as an English Tutor at the Department of English, University of Warwick for two years.
She works as a Sworn Translator and an Interpreter, and she will be teaching the Course of Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World in the School of Social and Political Science (University of Edinburgh). Prior to joining the University of Warwick, she worked as an English Lecturer at Damascus University and also as an English Lecturer and a Proofreader at the Syrian Private University. She also worked as an English tutor and a human rights activist with Gopa Derd in cooperation with UN and UNICEF. She has several publications on war, AI, Miro software, and female issues in the Arab world and beyond as well as a book review on the representation of the human body, sexuality, and struggle in contemporary Arab art.
Research interests: Women’s Studies, gender and sexuality, feminism in a global context, war, colonial and postcolonial studies, AI and digital Humanities, critical theory, world literature, and the Muslim world.
Project title: Contemporary Arab Diasporas: Reimagining Nationhood in Arab Cultural and Digital Feminism
This interdisciplinary digital project examines the literary and artistic contributions of Syrian and Palestinian women in the Western diaspora since the 1970s to nation-building.
By investigating how women leverage AI tools, such as Canva and Soundtrap, to create art, music, and literature that reflect their unique perspectives, my project highlights the interplay between transnational connections and their distinctive diaspora experience. It shows the relationship between the arts, technology, and society through showcasing how these elements interactively shape and influence nation-making narratives
By combining close readings with AI tools like Voyant Tools and Google Vision, the project reveals patterns and insights in cultural productions that traditional methods may overlook. This project will develop a searchable online database that serves as a comprehensive and accessible resource for researchers, educators, public engagement, and policymakers.