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Farah Saleh is a lecturer in Global Majority Theatre and Performance at the University of Glasgow, where she focuses on self-discovery, narrative appropriation, and bodily archives within decolonial practice. She holds a PhD in Choreography from Edinburgh College of Art and has previously been a visiting scholar at Brown University. Her research explores participatory performance and the creation of living archives that reflect Palestinian history through a choreographic lens. Saleh's work integrates video installation and spoken word, aiming to unearth hidden narratives and make accessible the corporeal realities of the Palestinian colonial context. She has co-edited a special issue on 'Cultural Resistance and Genocide' for Global Performance Studies, highlighting the role of archiving lived experiences as a form of resistance. Saleh has presented her performances internationally and is engaged in new research that seeks to decolonize university curricula through artistic interventions and participatory experiences. Her work emphasizes embodied practices and methodologies of care and attentive listening in the context of ongoing violence and historical distortion.