Lucy El-Sherif

Dr. Lucy El-Sherif is an Egyptian Muslim immigrant, mother and scholar. Through Palestinian dabke, her work focuses on Arab and Muslim youth subjectivity on Turtle Island exploring embodiment, performativity and socio-spatial dimensions of colonial citizenship. Her book project, Dabke on Turtle Island, unpacks the dances of settler citizenship—literally and figuratively—to understand what it means to dance a relationship to one stolen land, Palestine, from another stolen land, Haudenosaunne territory on Turtle Island. She is an assistant professor at McMaster University.