Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
ABOUT
Leila Zonouzi is a PhD Candidate in Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her dissertation research is a comparative diasporic study between Iran, Egypt, and Turkey, where she looks at the new wave of mass-migration from the MENA region to the Global North following the social movements that occurred in the 2010s.
Discipline
International Relations/Affairs
Sub Areas
Persian
Nationalism
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Iranian Studies
Identity/Representation
Gender/Women's Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iran
Specialties
Iranian Diaspora And Iranian Diasporic Literature
Languages
English (fluent)
Persian (native)
Azeri (intermediate)
Education
MFA
| 2016
| Creative Writing
| Chatham University
Abstracts
Girls of Enghelab (Revolution) Street: Performing Dissidence
Diasporization of the Intelligentsia: the Case of Iran and Turkey
Alienation and Marginalization of Dissidents: Diaspora Formation in the 2010s
