Salma Shamel is a PhD candidate at the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication. Her research trajectory over the last decade has explored the intersections of media and visual studies with Arab and African social and political thought. She is a core member of the Mosireen Media Collective in Egypt, and a co-founder of the 858 archive. Her writing has appeared in Endnotes, Social Text, Rethinking Marxism, Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, The Derivative, Aljumhuriya, Jadaliyya, Megaphone, Mada Masr, and others.