Ferdaous is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) and part of the Doctoral Training Unit “Deep Data Science of Digital History”. She works on the exploration of Western colonial discourse and propaganda in historical newspapers. She holds a Data and Knowledge Engineering degree from the School of Information Science of Rabat. Before joining the C²DH, Ferdaous worked at the Moroccan News Agency, where she led projects involving the digitization and AI-driven exploration of news archives.
Within impresso, Ferdaous provides one of the historical case studies, contributes to the co-design of the impresso web app and data lab as well as to the project’s dissemination efforts.
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