Farah Aboubakr

Farah Aboubakr is a Lecturer in Arabic at the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She joined the university in 2013 and, since then, has been involved in teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Arabic language, culture and literature, Middle Eastern Studies, and Translation Studies.

Farah Aboubakr has been actively engaged in research across the fields of Palestine Studies, Arabic Literature and Popular Culture, Post-colonial Studies, Memory Studies, and Cultural Studies. Her research has been funded by The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), Palestinian American Research Centre (PARC) and the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL).

Her publications include The Folktales of Palestine: Cultural Identity, Memory and the Politics of Storytelling (2019) and, more recently, “Archivalism and Memory Activism: The Nakba (1948) and the Gaza War (2023)” (2025). She has recently completed her CBRL-funded project, Palestinian Transgressive Voices: Cultural Memory and Performative Arts in the Diaspora and Palestine (2023-25). She is currently the co-editor with Luisa Gandolfo of Postmemory and Ongoing Trauma in the Levant (forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press).