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Dahlia El Zein is an Assistant Professor in Residence in the Liberal Arts Program at Northwestern University in Qatar. She holds a PhD in Middle Eastern and African History from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University. Her research focuses on transregional histories between the Eastern Mediterranean and West Africa under French colonialism, exploring race, migration, gender, and anti-colonial movements. She is currently completing a book project titled Dakar–Beirut: Race and Empire in French West Africa and the Levant (1920–1960).
Her work emphasizes recentering Global South perspectives in historical narratives, particularly through the lens of marginalized communities such as West African soldiers and Lebanese migrants. She has taught at Princeton University’s pre-college program and previously worked in human rights and at Columbia University’s Center for Palestine Studies.
Her publications analyze intersections of race and empire, including studies on the 1967 Arab defeat’s impact on anti-colonial solidarity and the legacy of the Third World movement. Though no formal awards are listed, her scholarship reflects rigorous engagement with decolonial methodologies and transnational historiography.
Her advising and grants sections remain unlisted, though her research often intersects with contemporary global justice movements. She is affiliated with Northwestern’s Artificial Intelligence and Media Lab and contributes to interdisciplinary dialogues on media literacy and migration studies.
