Rayya El Zein
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
BA Kenyon CollegeMA New York University
PHD CUNY The Graduate Center
Rayya El Zein
Rayya El Zein is a cultural ethnographer and scholar of performance and media in the Middle East and its diasporas. Her multi-sited research focuses on the embodied aesthetics of live performances and activist practices, while exploring the cultural politics of contemporary media debates. Her interdisciplinary work rethinks representations of Arab and Muslim youth and proposes different models of subjectivity and agency attuned to lived experiences in the contemporary Middle East.
Academic Affiliations
Office Hours
Tuesdays and Wednesdays 4:30-6:30 / and by appointment
Courses
Spring 2021
ANTH 112F - 01
Listening to the World (FYS)
ANTH 218 - 01
Pop Culture and Media in MENA