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Lina El-Shamy

Part-time Lecturer

Email
elshamyl@newschool.edu

Office Location
L - 2 West 13th Street

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Lina El-Shamy

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Lina El-Shamy is a cultural anthropologist, design historian, and artist. Lina's research concerns the tensions and frictions of everyday life in contemporary Egypt, especially as those relate to domestic space and objects. Her work often combines both ethnographic and archival encounters, and is driven by the prospect of recovering alternative (epistemological) worlds that could redraft ways of relating and belonging. She holds a Bachelor of Design from Ontario College of Art and Design University, and an MA and PhD from the University of Toronto's Department of Art History. Lina was born in Alexandria, Egypt, grew up in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and immigrated to Canada at age 15, making her life an Ibn-Battutian one full of shifting landscapes and perpetual curiosity. 

Degrees Held

PhD, Art History & Visual Culture (2016—2024), University of Toronto, Canada
MA, Art History & Visual Culture (2015-2016), University of Toronto, Canada
BDes, Graphic Design, Ontario College of Art & Design University (2011-2015), Toronto, Canada

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