BIO
Aida Bardissi is a poet & PhD candidate of Middle East Studies at New York University.
Her doctoral project examines films of the Nasser era as an inquiry into the construction of a racial ecology— particularly as it pertains 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 Marxism & the Black Radical Tradition & Indigenous Ontopolitics.
Her debut poetry collection a nation without a body is just an anthem is, published under Trio Press, will by out in October 2027.
Fragments of her poetic work has been nominated for a 2025 Pushcart Prize and find a home in Protean, ANMLY, Apogee, Mizna, and elsewhere.
She is a member of the New York Arabic Chorus, run by Brooklyn Maqam.
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.