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banah holds a PhD in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, San Diego. You can read their dissertation, Ululating from the Underground: Syrian Women’s Protests, Pedagogies, Protests, and Pedagogies Under Siege here. They also turned it into a short film here. The dissertation developed into a manuscript called Ululating from the Underground: Syrian Women’s Protests under Siege forthcoming from SUNY Press. They served as an Assistant Professor of Comparative Women’s Studies at Spelman College for three years.
banah holds Masters of Arts in Ethnic Studies and a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Women’s Studies and Sociology from Spelman College, where they graduated as Valedictorian. While at Spelman, Banah was active in the Toni Cade Bambara Scholar-Writer-Activist Collective in the Women’s Resource and Research Center, the Social Justice Fellows, and founded the Students for Justice in Palestine.
banah is the author of La Syrena: Visions of a Syrian Mermaid from Space, which won the Diverse Voices Prize from Dzanc Books. The Independent Book Review named it one of the best books of 2023.
banah works as a freelance content writer, editor, and copywriter. You can hire them for writing coaching services here.