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Sara Salem

Sara Salem is an Associate Professor in Sociology at the London School of Economics. She is the author of Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony and a forthcoming book, co-authored with Mai Taha, entitled Anticolonial Radios: On the Sonic Lives of Internationalism. Along with Mai Taha, she curates Archive Stories, a platform exploring radical and creative archives. 

Articles by Sara Salem

Archival Experiments: Iman Mersal’s ‘Traces of Enayat’ and Julietta Singh’s ‘No Archive Will Restore You’
As a scholar specialising in anticolonial archiving practices, Sara Salem analyses two texts – Iman Mersal’s Traces of Enayat and Julietta Singh’s No Archive Will Restore You – as 'attempts at stretching and undoing "the archive" as a fixed place or as something that can be held by an institution'. Braiding close readings and theory, Salem explores the body as an archive and archiving as radical experimentation to expand our definitions of archival engagement and what actually constitutes an archive in the first place.   
Arvon no.2
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