Ferdaous is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C虏DH) in Luxembourg, working on the exploration of Western colonial discourse and propaganda in historical newspapers and radio.
Ferdaous holds a Data and Knowledge Engineering degree from the School of Information Science of Rabat. Before joining the C虏DH, she worked at the Moroccan News Agency, where she led projects involving the digitization and AI-driven exploration of news archives.
As a PhD researcher at C虏DH, Ferdaous will contribute to the “impresso – Media Monitoring of the Past II鈥 project, under the supervision of Dr. Marten D眉ring, shedding new light on the historical impact of colonial discourse through innovative data-driven approaches.