Amal Ahmed is an audiovisual archivist and writer currently enrolled at Queens College (CUNY) in the Library Media Specialist program. She is a graduate of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Amal’s research explores the migratory realities of displaced film collections, particularly in North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia, addressing the need for decolonial praxis as part of the archival workflow. Amal is currently a research assistant and coordinator for student internships for the Faculty Organizing for Community Archives Support (FOCAS) at Queens College. She is studying the role of community archives as radical and critical pedagogical spaces for emerging LIS students to learn cultural competence and counter-archiving.
