Asma Char is an educator and human rights advocate who was awarded a PhD in English from the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. She has researched Arab and British women's feminism from the nineteenth century onwards, with a particular focus on the literature and political activism of Muslim and Christian Arab women concerning marriage, divorce, child custody, labour and suffrage.

Asma has taught gender, identity and modernity in the Middle East at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter and world literature and Victorian literature and culture at Bishop Grosseteste University.

In 2022 and 2023, she participated in the European Forum Alpbach (EFA), where she contributed meaningfully to discussions on democracy, freedom of speech, digital courage and gender-based violence and advocated for intersectional and inclusive feminist foreign and development policy that takes into account the marginalised voices of indigenous communities in the Global South. Over the years, Asma has been awarded several scholarships and grants from professional organisations such as the British Association for Victorian Studies, Victorian Popular Fiction Association and Nineteenth-Century Studies Association.