Chatta investigates how recent Arab graphic narratives challenge patriarchy and re-negotiate the marginalisation of minority voices.
Rasha Chatta
Rasha Chatta is an Associate Researcher of the Einstein Foundation at the Freie Universität Berlin, where she is completing a monograph titled Sketching Migration in Arab Comics: War Narratives, Conflicted Memory, and Gender. She was previously awarded postdoctoral fellowships at EUME-Forum Transregionale Studien and the Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (University of Tunis & Philipps-Universität Marburg). Rasha holds a PhD in Cultural, Literary, and Postcolonial Studies from SOAS, University of London. She has published on contemporary Arab migrant narratives, war literature, visual archives, and Arab comics.
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