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Shada Bokir

Shada Bokir is a Yemeni sociocultural anthropologist and university lecturer based in Vienna. She holds a PhD in Postcolonial Literature from the National University of Malaysia and an MA in English Literature from Appalachian State University, where she was a Fulbright Scholar. Bokir has extensive experience in research and teaching, with a focus on gender studies, social anthropology, and Yemeni studies. She has contributed to several research projects, including postdoctoral work on local power politics in northwest Yemen at the Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences. Additionally, she has been involved in the ERC project WIBARAB, which explores Middle Eastern Bedouin dialects, within the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Vienna. Bokir has also taught Arabic Literature at the University of Vienna and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

ARTICLES BY Shada Bokir

  • Scholars in Context: Shada Bokir

    Scholars in Context: Shada Bokir

    My current research examines the intersections of gender, power, and cultural identity in Middle Eastern contexts, with a focus on Yemen. This work builds on my foundation in post-colonial literature by extending the theoretical concepts of identity, representa..