Atiaf Alwazir AUx Instructor & Advisor UEAS | First Year Advising
- Degrees
- M.A. International Studies, Â鶹´«Ã½
B.A. International Studies, Â鶹´«Ã½
B.A. Interdisciplinary Studies -
Communication, Legal Institutions, Economics,
and Government - (CLEG), Â鶹´«Ã½ - Bio
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Atiaf (she/her/hers) is a multilingual educator, researcher and writer. She has experience in international education, research, and advocacy. She worked in six countries, Belgium, Egypt, France, Tunisia, Yemen and the US.
Atiaf taught Political Dialogue and Cross-Cultural Communication 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, gender and the role of media in shaping public opinion, expressive writing for women activists, poetry writing workshops, and art as resistance.
Atiaf was the Head of the Peace Program at the Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) in Belgium where she worked on peace education, with a focus on anti-racist pedagogy and demilitarizing education.
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 Â鶹´«Ã½ of Beirut, Human Rights Watch (HRW), Reprieve and the John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy, at the Â鶹´«Ã½ 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 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 a single story.Â
Teaching
Fall 2024
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CORE-196 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring: AU Experience I
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CORE-196 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring: AU Experience I
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CORE-196 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring: AU Experience I
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CORE-196 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring: AU Experience I