Congratulations to Dr. El-Sherif!

I’m delighted to announce that Dr. Lucy El-Sherif has been awarded the 2024 Edward W. Said Fellowship at Columbia University. The Fellowship includes a 4-6 week residency at the Society of Fellows and the Heyman Center for the Humanities to consult the Edward W. Said Papers in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library and engage with the Center for Palestine Studies community at Columbia.

Lucy’s research examines Palestinian and Arab youth subject formation and exilic subjectivity on Turtle Island through cultural production. Her time at the Heyman Center will focus on select Said manuscripts and correspondence to support the development of her book project, Dabke on Turtle Island. The book engages with Palestinian and Arab youth subjectivity at the intersection between orientalism and settler colonialism as manifested and performed in Palestinian dabke, a dialect of the Shami folk-dance.

Professor Edward W. Said was perhaps best known for his books Orientalism, published in 1978, and Culture and Imperialism, published in 1993, both of which made major contributions to the field of cultural and postcolonial studies.

Congratulations, Lucy!