Sara Salem

Sara Salem is an associate professor of sociology at the London School of Economics. Her research interests include postcolonial studies, Marxist theory, and global histories of anticolonialism. She is the author of Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony (2020), as well as journal articles on Angela Davis in Egypt in the journal Signs (2018); on Frantz Fanon and Egypt’s postcolonial state in Interventions: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies (2018); on Antonio Gramsci and anticolonialism in the postcolony in Theory, Culture and Society (2021); and on Nasserism in Egypt through the lens of haunting in Middle East Critique (2019). She is currently thinking and writing about ghosts and anticolonial archives.