Zainab Abdali is a third-year PhD student in the English department at Rice University. She graduated with her B.A. in English & Textual Studies and Mathematics from Syracuse University in 2018, after which she taught ninth-grade English at the Nairobi Muslim Academy in Nairobi, Kenya through a Fulbright grant in 2019. Her scholarly interests include Muslim American and global Muslim literatures, representations of the War on Terror and the figure of the terrorist in popular culture, and women of color feminist theory. She joins the Living West as Feminists project as a Clancy Taylor Summer Public Humanities intern.