Alia Al-Saji

Title

Alia Al-Saji

Rights

Permission to upload photo by the author. Photo attribution: Alia Al-Saji

Birthplace

Iraq / resides Turtle Island

Primary Sources

Al-Saji, A. (2024). Touching the wounds of colonial duration: Fanon's anticolonial critical phenomenology. Southern Journal of Philosophy, 62(1), 2-23. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjp.12560

Al-Saji, A. (2023). A Debilitating Colonial Duration: Reconfiguring Fanon. Research in Phenomenology 53(3), 279-307.   https://doi.org/10.1163/15691640-12341529

Al-Saja, A (2021). Too Late: Fanon, the dismembered past, and a phenomenology of racialized time. In L. Laubscher, D. Hook & M. U. Desai (Eds.), Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology (pp. 177–193). Routledge. 

Al-Saja, A. (2020). Weariness: Dismembered Time, Colonialism, Pandemics. Philosophy Today, 64(4) 821-826. https://doi.org/10.5840/philtoday20201227379

Al-Saja, A. (2020). Glued to the Image: A Critical Phenomenology of Racialization through Works of Art. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 77(4), 475–488. https://doi.org/10.1111/jaac.12680

Al-Saja, A. (2020). Frantz Fanon. In T. Szanto & H. Landweer (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Emotion (pp. 207–214). Routledge. 

Secondary Sources

Jilani, S. (2023). Becoming in a colonial world: approaching subjectivity with Fanon. Textual Practice, 38(10), 1583–1600. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2023.2243908

Laubscher, L., Hook, D., & Desai, M.U. (Eds.). (2021). Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003037132

Fanon, F. (1986). Black Skin, White Masks (C. L. Markmann, Trans.). Pluto Press (Original work published 1952). 

Extra Resources

Al-Saja, A. (2019, February 9). Why we should stop fixating on what Muslim women wear. The New Statesman. Accessed March 20, 2025.  https://www.newstatesman.com/world/2019/02/why-we-should-stop-fixating-what-muslim-women-wear

Interview with philosopher Dr. Alia Al-Saji on Touch. (2022, December 16). Overthink Podcast. YouTube. Accessed March 15, 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AMMvoZ0KoU

McGill University. (n.d.). Alia Al-Saji. Accessed March 20, 2025. https://www.mcgill.ca/philosophy/alia-al-saji

Citation

“Alia Al-Saji,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed December 6, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/773.

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