Ghalya Saadawi
Senior Lecturer in Research Architecture / On leave 2024-25
g.saadawi@gold.ac.uk
Ghalya Saadawi teaches on the MA theory module. She earned a PhD in Sociology from Goldsmiths where she wrote about art and politics in the context of a post-civil war, post-Cold war, neoliberal Lebanon, in order to consider a rethinking of the figure of the witness. Her interests span critical theory, critical approaches to human rights, law and psychoanalysis, aesthetics and politics, illness and health histories. Previously, Saadawi worked as a researcher for various NGOs in Lebanon. Between 2015-2017, she was Resident Professor of the Ashkal Alwan Home Workspace Program (Beirut), and has been theory tutor at the Dutch Art Institute since 2018. Her writing has appeared in Bidoun, frieze, Bidayat, Third Text, ArtMargins, Journal of Visual Culture, PhiloSOPHIA. She is at work on a forthcoming book October and November (Fitzcarraldo Editions) . Saadawi is a member of Beirut Institute for Critical Analysis and Research (BICAR).