“Arts and culture matter to me because they're part of our everyday living. It's about who gets seen and heard.”

Poet-scholar and educator Saba Hamzah sees archives as more than repositories of the past. They shape who is remembered, whose knowledge survives, and ultimately whose histories become part of the future. That belief became the foundation of the Yemeni Women Archive, a growing space dedicated to documenting and preserving the stories, knowledges, and lived experiences of Yemeni women across Yemen and its diaspora.