Zoe Davies is a PhD student with the Australian National University and lives on the unceded land of the Dharawal people. She is one of two annual recipients of the ANU RASS Director’s PhD Supplementary Stipend. She received a Chancellor’s Letter of Commendation after graduating from her Masters (Advanced) in Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies at ANU and received a Bachelor of Arts from The University of Melbourne. She has previously worked for the Australian Government, the private and non-profit sectors, and more recently was a course convenor and lecturer for the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies at ANU on courses examining gender and history within the Middle East. She currently runs a small communications consultancy based in Sydney. Her HDR studies focus on the legacies of colonialism within the Arab Gulf as they relate labour mobility. She is also working on a monograph with Prof Karima Laachir exploring the cultural memory of slavery within the Arab world. She has published articles with the Near East Policy Forum on a range of topics, including the colonial language of landscapes in Australia and Palestine as well as how AI is transforming the labour markets of different Arab States in different ways. Her research areas of interest is focused on coloniality within the Arab world.