Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
ABOUT
Elianne is a Lebanese-Canadian PhD student at the University of Waterloo researching about the creation of political identities in Palestinian youth subcultures in both Israel and the Occupied Territories. Elianne also loves to read and write about history and culture, plays the saxophone and ukulele, eats a lot of pizza, and is learning to shuffle. Her website link is a for-fun blog where she writes about love and art under the pseudonym Zara.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Arabic
Colonialism
Cultural Studies
Current Events
Identity/Representation
Middle East/Near East Studies
Music
Pop Culture
Transnationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Palestine
Israel
The Levant
Specialties
Palestinian Youth Cultures/Subcultures
Israeli/Palestinian Hegemony
Contemporary Palestinian Hip-Hop
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (native)
French (fluent)
Russian (elementary)
Spanish (elementary)
Education
MA
| 2018
| English Literature
| University of Balamand
BA
| 2015
| English Literature
| University of Balamand
Abstracts
Humor in Contemporary Palestinian Hip Hop
