Authors

Aida Bardissi

Aida Bardissi holds an MSc from the London School of Economics, where she has been awarded a degree in Sociology with Distinction. She is an alum of Boston University, where she graduated with a degree in International Relations, with foci in the Middle East/North Africa and Cultural Anthropology. Her Master's thesis, entitled "Indigeneity in Absentia: Racializing the Nubian People in Nasserite film" examines Egyptian film of the mid-twentieth century and its concerted national project(s), with specialisation in race, indigeneity, & constructed nationhood. More broadly, Aida's research interests involve colonial hybridity as it relates to the ontology of the postcolonial Egyptian nation, mass media and tastemaking vis-à-vis hegemony, and the semiotics of Third World solidarity.


Aida’s academic work has been selected for the International Studies Association Conference in April 2021. She also has processed data for a joint research project with the University of Notre Dame & Harvard University. She currently is a high school history teacher at York Preparatory School, where she teaches an independently-created course entitled "Modern Arab World," that examines the music, fashion, film, and visual arts of the Arab world as historical sources in conversation with their greater political moments.

ARTICLES BY Aida Bardissi