Nostalgia is not simply a latent sentiment inspired by childhood remembrances and memorative objects: indeed, nostalgia is a powerful political tool that occupies cities, landscapes, and revolutions. Nostalgia, by that measure, can be examined as a sociological phenomenon that exposes what Avery..
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.