Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
705 Aylesford Court
Franklin
TN
37069
United States
ABOUT
A Nashville native, Lydia Yousief is a second year master’s student at the University of Chicago’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. She studies marginalized identities in the Middle East, among them the Copts and Palestinians. Her bachelor’s research thesis, written at Vanderbilt University, concerns the Nashville Coptic identities.
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Palestine
North America
Specialties
Coptic Identifications
Modern Egypt
Nation-state And Marginalization And Secularism
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Education
MA
| 2019
| Center for Middle Eastern Studies
| University of Chicago
BA
| 2017
| Humanities
| Vanderbilt University
Abstracts
Mapping Community and Its Implications: A Case Study of Copts in Nashville
