A new publication from our department: “’Uyun Teta: Blindness, sightedness and the stories in-between” by Professor Abir Hamdar, in the journal Medical Humanities.
We are proud to share the latest work by our colleague Professor Abir Hamdar, who has published a critical-creative essay entitled “’Uyun Teta: Blindness, sightedness and the stories in-between” in the journal Medical Humanities.
Through a deeply personal lens, this essay explores what it means to see, not see, and to live in the space between visibility and invisibility — including how stories are told, remembered, and felt in conditions shaped by fragility, vulnerability, and political precarity.
This piece is an excellent example of how medical humanities is growing in importance in our school. It bridges personal narrative, memory, visual culture, and disability studies to address urgent questions about perception, representation, care, and belonging.
You can read the article here: https://mh.bmj.com/content/early/2025/09/03/medhum-2025-013300
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