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Atiaf Alwazir AUx Instructor & Advisor UEAS | First Year Advising

Bio
Atiaf (she/her/hers) is an educator, researcher and writer.

Before coming to AU, Atiaf was the Head of the Peace Program at the Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) in Belgium where she worked on demilitarizing education, challenging colonial legacies in the EU, and how militarism impedes climate action.

As an instructor/facilitator, Atiaf taught Political Dialogue at Université Catholique de Lille in France; and Research Methodology at the Mediterranean School of Business (MSB) in Tunisia. She also facilitated numerous workshops including: Creative Writing for Women activists, poetry writing workshops, and Art as Resistance.

As a researcher, Atiaf’s action-oriented research explores the role of social movements – with special attention to the Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region, the intersection between art and politics, challenging media narratives, and militarism in the age of technology.

Some of this research was in collaboration with institutions and organizations such as Asfari Insitute for Civil Society and Citizenship at the American University of Beirut, Human Rights Watch (HRW), Reprieve and the John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy, at the American University in Cairo.

Her research was published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Routledge, Mediterranean Journal, and Jadaliyya.

In 2011, Atiaf documented the Yemeni uprising on her blog and co-founded SupportYemen, a storytelling collective. She is the co-author of Change Square, a photo book on Yemen’s revolution.

In 2020, she gave a TEDx talk at Berkeley University, entitled "The Other Side of Yemen's War" which focused on the dangers of media narratives of war, and the necessity of owning our narratives.

Teaching

Fall 2024

  • CORE-196 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring: AU Experience I

  • CORE-196 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring: AU Experience I

  • CORE-196 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring: AU Experience I

  • CORE-196 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring: AU Experience I