Tasneem Alsayyed is an assistant professor of Philosophy and Social Justice at University Canada West. She has recently completed her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Waterloo, where her doctoral work focused on epistemic and ideological injustices related to the marginalization of Muslims and Muslim women. Her areas of specialization include feminist philosophy, social and political philosophy, and decoloniality. Her published work addresses Islamophobia and epistemic injustices in the discourse surrounding the hijab (the Islamic veil), and upcoming work discusses hermeneutical obstacles to Muslim women’s solidarity. Her current research centers on racism and human rights, with a focus on her own country, Palestine. This includes an analysis of the epistemic injustices implicated in the refusal to understand the protest slogans, “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free” and “Black Lives Matter,” as well as an examination of the anti-Palestinian racism embedded in Canada’s immigration policies. Tasneem’s work is also intertwined with community engagement and local activism, and she sees this as a critical to her work about marginalized groups.
