Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
ABOUT
Lily Hindy is a doctoral student in History at UCLA, focusing on national identity and ethnic and religious minorities in the modern Middle East. She has a Master's in International Affairs from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and a Bachelor's in Government from Smith College. Before starting at UCLA, Hindy was a senior foreign policy associate at The Century Foundation, doing research on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and Syrian migrant communities in the U.S., Germany and Lebanon. Hindy also served as Deputy Director of the freelance journalist emergency medical training nonprofit RISC (Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues) and worked at The Associated Press in New York.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arab Studies
Colonialism
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Ethnic Groups
Kurdish Studies
Identity/Representation
Nationalism
Middle East/Near East Studies
Minorities
Modernization
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iraq
Syria
Kurdistan
Specialties
National Identity And Minority Relations
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
English (native)
French (intermediate)
Italian (advanced)
Kurdish (elementary)
Turkish (advanced)
Spanish (fluent)
Education
MA
| 2011
| School of International and Public Affairs
| Columbia University
BA
| 2005
| Government
| Smith College
Abstracts
Skewed Recovery: Minority Assistance Programs to Iraq in Historical Perspective
State Repression, Everyday Resistance and Complex Alliances: Kurds in Iraq, 1968 – 2003
“Selling” the Kurdish Plight in Iraq to an International Audience: The Messaging of Kurdish Diaspora Organizations after the Human Rights Revolution (1975-2005)
