Biography
Her Story
Dr Amal Al Malki is a Qatari scholar, educator, public speaker, social commentator and advocate of women’s rights and gender equality. Dr Amal is the Founding Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hamad bin Khalifa University in Qatar Foundation. Prior to that, she was the Executive Director of the Translation and Interpreting Institute, which she founded in 2011.
Dr Al Malki holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of London – SOAS, where she also earned a Master’s degree in English-Arabic Applied Linguistics and Translation. In 2012, Dr Amal published her book titled Arab Women in Arab News: Old Stereotypes and New Media, which was lauded as the first comprehensive study of the topic in the world. Dr. Al-Malki’s research interests include the negotiation of identity between East and West, media representations of Arab women and postcolonial literature.
As Dr Al Malki’s focus is on women’s rights and Arab identity, she strives to help deepen international understanding of Qatar and its evolving place in the world. In 2020, she launched the “Women of the Middle East Podcast” to create a feminist narrative by a Qatari scholar covering women of the middle east and building new areas of knowledge and activism that will enable women to be empowered.
Testimonials
[elementor-template id=”2789″]David KauferMellon Distinguished Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University
My journey with Amal coincided with the beginning of her own journey as a pioneer, ambitious leader in the world of Qatari academia, a world in which little if any female leadership was then in evidence. That she has not only survived but flourished for many years in this context is testimony to her resilience and strength of character.
What she has accomplished in terms of establishing completely new programmes in a range of disciplines, from translation and interpreting studies to digital humanities and women’s studies, demonstrates a breadth of vision and an intellectual versatility rarely found in academics of her generation, and suggests that she has considerably more to offer in the next phase of her career.
Mona BakerProfessor Emerita of Translation Studies at University of Manchester