Alia Mossallam

Alia MOSSALLAM is a cultural historian interested in songs that tell stories and stories that tell of popular struggles behind the better-known events that shape world history. She is a EUME fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Berlin, writing a book on the visual and musical archiving practices of the builders of the Aswan High Dam and Nubian communities displaced by it. Some of her writings can be found in The Journal of Water History, The History Workshop Journal, the LSE Middle East Paper Series, Jadaliyya, Ma’azif, 60 Pages, Bidayat and Mada Masr. An experimental pedagogue, she has founded the site-specific public history project Ihky ya Tarikh and taught at the American University in Cairo, CILAS, and the Freie Universität in Berlin.