Ruba Salih

I am currently a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Bologna. My research interests and writing include transnational migration and diasporas across the Middle East and Europe, colonisation and decolonisation, gender memory and colonial traumas- with Italy, Morocco, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Lebanon and Jordan as main sites of my fieldwork. In the past ten years my research has focused on Palestinian refugees and their imaginaries of rights, through a decolonial perspective. Before joining Bologna University in 2022, I was Professor in the Department of Anthropology at SOAS, University of London. From 2015 to 2019 I was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences where I was part of the academic freedom sub-committee. Currently, I am part of the Executive Board of Insaniyyat, Society of Palestinian Anthropologists. Academic freedom is core to my scholarly ethics and mission. As part of the EASA working group, I am committed to promote and protect spaces for anthropological critical thinking and writing, and to implement measures to ensure our association is equipped to deal with the challenges that are incumbent upon us.