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Azra Rashid
Azra Rashid is an instructor in the Humanities department at John Abbott College in Montreal, and research fellow in the department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. Azra’s research is focused on testimony and representations of gender in discourses of war. Her upcoming book, Gender and Genocide in Cambodia: Surviving Khmer Rouge (2023), explores the multiplicity of women’s experiences in the Cambodian genocide during the four-year rule of the Khmer Rouge. Azra’s book, Gender, Nationalism and Genocide in Bangladesh: Naristhan/Ladyland (2018), investigates selective remembering of women’s experiences in the 1971 genocide in Bangladesh and offers a counter-narrative that emphasizes a gendered reading of that genocide. Azra also has over 15 years of experience as a filmmaker and storyteller. Her films have been screened at international film festivals and broadcast on national television in Canada.