Caline Nasrallah

Caline Nasrallah is a PhD student in Communication Studies at Concordia University in Montréal. She holds an MA in Islamic Studies, with a concentration in Gender and Women’s Studies, from McGill University, and an MA in Translation and Writing from Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth.

Her doctoral research examines women’s oral histories of war and political struggle in Lebanon, with particular attention to how historical knowledge is produced, mediated, and transmitted through archives.

Working at the intersection of oral history, feminist and decolonial scholarship, translation studies, and media studies, she investigates how testimony is transformed as it moves between languages and media, including audio recordings, written transcripts, and audiovisual works.

She is particularly interested in the ethical and methodological challenges of representing dimensions of oral testimony that resist transcription and translation, such as silence, hesitation, and affect.

Her research also explores the possibilities of listening and research-creation as practices through which to critically engage with archives, challenge dominant historical narratives, and imagine alternative ways of preserving and communicating memories of violence.

Thesis title: Narrating War, Making Political Knowledge: Women’s Oral Histories in Lebanon 

Publications:

Jabbour, Guillaume W., and Caline Nasrallah. “Arrhythmia: An Examination of Return, Ontology, and Futurity in Palestine.” Jerusalem Quarterly, in press, 2026.

Abisaab, Malek, and Michelle Hartman. What the War Left Behind: Women’s Stories of Resistance and Struggle in Lebanon. Syracuse University Press, 2024. Oral-history translations by Caline Nasrallah and Michelle Hartman.

Alatawna, Asmaa. A Long Walk from Gaza. Translated from Arabic by Caline Nasrallah and Michelle Hartman. Interlink Books, 2024.

Chouman, Hilal. “Once Upon a Time, Tomorrow.” Translated from Arabic by Caline Nasrallah. Wasafiri, 2024.

Baidoun, Nawal Qasim. Memoirs of a Militant: My Years in the Khiam Women’s Prison. Translated from Arabic by Caline Nasrallah and Michelle Hartman. Interlink Books, 2021.