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Jood AlThukair

Election Year: 2022

Election Constituency: Saudi Arabia

Scholar Status: Scholar Alum

Rhodes Identifier: Saudi Arabia & Trinity 2022

Jood AlThukair

Biography

Jood is a researcher tracing oral narratives, women's memory practices, and the shifting ecologies of the desert. Working across (anti)archives through bilingual and ethno-poetic methods, she explores how stories endure, erode, and reassemble. Jood is the founder and curator of the Khaleeji Women’s Library & Archive (KWLA), a community-led traveling library, research lab, and alternative archival practice. She holds an MSt in Comparative Literature and Critical Translation from the University of Oxford, focusing on desert politics and women’s oral poetry in Saudi Arabia.