Archivist Moska Rokay explains how archives help Western Muslim communities represent themselves, addressing the wide diversity of the Muslim diaspora and how the Muslims in Canada Archives (MiCA) compares to archives in the US and UK.
Moska Rokay is a Digital Humanities Research Fellow tasked with coordinating the Muslims in Canada Archives (MiCA) at the Institute of Islamic Studies at the University of Toronto. She completed her Master of Information (UofT) and defended her MI thesis in 2019.
Moska’s research interests lie in the interdisciplinary crossroads of archives, critical race & ethnicity, media studies, and identity formation in diaspora communities of war and trauma. She is an advocate for activist archives that center reflexivity and reciprocity, and are community-facing.