Marybelle Issa
PhD Graduate Student
Research Interests:
Art, semiotics, materiality, narratives of displacement and resistance, conditions of exile, diasporic experiences, transnational communication, Palestine, Lebanon.
Biography:
Marybelle is a PhD student in Linguistic Anthropology conducting research at the intersections of language and art. Her dissertation project explores textile arts as a lens through which to explore social relations and political realities of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. She holds degrees from Simon Fraser University and Sciences Po Paris where she studied political science, international affairs, and sociolinguistics.