Sahar ElAsad is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge. Her research examines education policy and conflict through decolonial and posthuman approaches, with particular attention to Sudan. She explores genealogies of knowledge, governance, and temporality across colonial and postcolonial contexts, tracing how educational institutions and policy regimes shape historical accountability and lived experience over time. Her work is grounded in archival inquiry and engages Islamic intellectual traditions alongside contemporary posthuman thought, using diffractive readings to bring policy, narrative, and philosophical texts into conversation across disciplinary boundaries. Alongside her doctoral research, Sahar has worked across international education, peacebuilding, and humanitarian settings, including with UNESCO, the European Institute of Peace (EIP), and the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE). She is interested in how education operates as an ethical and political force in contexts marked by war, displacement, and institutional violence, and in how alternative epistemologies can open different possibilities for research, responsibility, and repair.

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