Anabel Said is a lecturer in the Department of French at the University of Malta, where she teaches courses on literature and culture, as well as French as a foreign language, including French for diplomacy.

She completed her doctoral studies through a joint PhD programme (cotutelle) between the University of Malta and Sorbonne Université. Her doctoral research focused on the representation of migration in francophone Mediterranean and sub-Saharan literature and cinema.

Before joining the University of Malta, Dr Said worked in the public service, at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, and also with NGOs.

She is the author of a monograph on the literary representation of the Rwandan genocide (Écrire l’indicible: la tragédie du Rwanda vue par le collectif « Écrire par devoir de mémoire ») published by Passage(s) in 2019. She has presented academic papers at local and international conferences. Her most recent publication (Entre crise et créativité : la mise en œuvre de l’expérience de la migration dans ‘Partir’ de Tahar Ben Jelloun et ‘Harragas’ de Merzak Allouache) appears in the edited volume ‘Hésitation & création’ published by L’Harmattan in 2024. Her research interests include migration, violence, Otherness, and the sea in francophone literature and cinema.

She is a member of the University’s Research Cluster on Discourses of the Environment and Climate Change (DECC), where she leads the project ‘Representations of climate change: Environmental issues and human-nature relations in literature, film, games and the performing arts’.