Jood AlThukair

Biography

Jood graduated from King Saud University with a BA in English Language and Literature in May 2021. She is passionate about honoring Arab literature, hence her founding of Sumou—one of the leading independent publications in the region. Having already published hundreds of works, Jood aims to uplift creative voices in the region and the diaspora by giving them a platform to share their work. She is interested in researching exile and forced migration in Arab communities, the temporality of postcolonialism, the polemics and futurisms in contemporary Arab literature, and their overall sociopolitical implications on the Arab identity. At Oxford, Jood will study the intersections between politics and literature that mark the features of Arab women’s literary works, paying special attention to the aftereffects of the discovery of oil in the Gulf on their collective movements.