Biography

 

Reham Aboud

Reham Aboud

  • Scholar-elect
  • Egypt
  • 2025 PhD Digital Humanities
  • King's College

Growing up in the vibrant and culturally rich region of the Middle East—Egypt in particular—instilled in me a deep sense of care and commitment to supporting others. After years of training in literary and cultural studies and their entanglements with digitality, my interdisciplinary research at Cambridge focuses on harnessing AI to support vulnerable and marginalised activist communities, especially literary authors, in expressing themselves under authoritarianism. By reframing AI not as a tool of oppression but as a medium for resistance, my work challenges dominant narratives and empowers silenced voices. I aim to develop conceptual and practical frameworks that decolonise AI studies, expand ethics-based approaches to digital humanities, and redefine the role of literary and cultural scholarship in the age of AI.

Previous Education

Minia University Literature