Suher Adi is a fourth-year undergraduate student at UC Berkeley majoring in Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies. She has served as a research assistant for a report titled “No Safe Space: Health Consequences of Tear Gas Exposure Among Palestine Refugees” published by the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center. Suher is also currently working with a Post-Doctorate as a research assistant on a qualitative study on Syrian refugee women’s experiences. She has spent time in Palestine and other parts of the region the past two summers as a student diplomat and fellow for various programs. As a...
Nour El Rayes is a PhD student in Ethnomusicology, with a Designated Emphasis in New Media and a 2018 Stevens Scholar. Her dissertation project—“Radical Ethnography of the Popular: Alternative Music in Lebanon”—examines constructions of the “alternative” in music in Lebanon in order to understand its role in the creation and articulation of alternative social, political, and economic futures. In addition to her academic work, Nour studies Middle Eastern percussion, and performs Arabic classical music with the Aswat ensemble, and Berkeley’s Disoriental. She hold a B.A. in the Liberal Arts,...