Lydia Yousief is the founder and director of Elmahaba Center since June 2019. After graduating with her master’s from the Center of Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Chicago, Lydia returned to her hometown, Nashville, to support Arabic-speaking families in their pursuits of economic stability and cultural revival. By training, she’s an ethnographer and storyteller.
 

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elmahabacenternashville 

Resources:
Articles - https://www.elmahabacenter.com/publications 
 

Books

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Friere - https://catalog.library.nashville.org/GroupedWork/b45f919a-acfc-eebb-5d04-3e93c53fb4ff-eng/Home?searchId=99139973&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local&referred=resultIndex 

Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Animals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs - https://catalog.library.nashville.org/GroupedWork/bc2021fa-f0bf-e109-cdd4-51da0a008100-eng/Home?searchId=99139762&recordIndex=3&page=1&searchSource=local&referred=resultIndex 

Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon - https://catalog.library.nashville.org/GroupedWork/cf36c9db-ff38-2dce-3b15-d81f20b3a815-eng/Home?searchId=99139903&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local&referred=resultIndex