SUMAYYAH ZANNATH

MA POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES, SOAS UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

As a Muslim in Britain, collective resistance has defined my ability to survive amidst hostility from a media and political class with entrenched structures of racial and class supremacy.

In particular, I have worked extensively to interrogate Eurocentric pedagogical traditions and reimagine education to empower our communities.

Whilst studying BA Religion, Politics and Society at King’s College London, I founded my own student society, Decolonise KCL, and created an open-access library to redistribute the possession of knowledge. I hope to continue this work within local communities and create spaces of education away from and against the colonial gaze.

My research interests lie in Indigenous literature and cultural artefacts, and their relationship with colonialism, academia and the epistemology of knowledge.