BIO
Aida Bardissi is a poet & PhD student of Middle East Studies at New York University.
Her doctoral project examines films of the Nasser era as an inquiry into constructions of a racial ecology— particularly as it relates to the question(s) of Blackness, indigeneity, and the faultlines of belonging. The project acts as an invitation to reimagine indigenous studies by relocating the Arabic-speaking world into conversations of liberation that extend beyond regional and national bifurcations.
She is intellectually committed to Liberation Psychology, Black Feminist Theory & Indigenous Ontopolitics.
Her poetic work has been nominated for a 2025 Pushcart Prize and finds a home in Protean, ANMLY, Apogee, Mizna, and elsewhere.
She calls on you to devote yourself to the daily practice of liberation.
Anti-Blackness in the Arab World:
A collective document of resources dedicated to unearthing the roots of anti-Black policy, language, media, and culture in the modern Arab world. Curated in 2020.