Biography
Samiha's research examines racial slavery in the Arab world, Arab subject-formation and its convergences with constructions of race. This work employs critical race theory, black studies, philosophy, postcolonial theory, and textual analysis of historical Arabic texts. It aims to create new methodological approaches to studying the transmutations of racial regimes in the Arab World and on a global scale. Samiha’s formal training in architecture and critical geography informs her other research interests, which extend to the intersections of architecture and psychoanalysis, space/body relations in colonial cities, and her previous work on racialized urban governance and its spatial manifestations in urban settings.