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Lily Hindy



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Lily Hindy is a PhD student in history at UCLA whose research focuses on issues of national identity in the modern Middle East, specifically looking at the relationship between the Iraqi government and the Kurdish population of Iraq under Ba'ath Party rule (1968 - 2003). 

Lily Hindy is a PhD student in history at UCLA whose research focuses on issues of national identity in the modern Middle East, specifically looking at the relationship between the Iraqi government and the Kurdish population of Iraq under Ba'ath Party rule. Before coming to UCLA, Lily was senior foreign policy associate at The Century Foundation, and she previously worked as an editorial assistant on the international desk of Associated Press in New York. She also spent five years in the nonprofit sector where she held the position of Deputy Director at RISC (Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues), which provides emergency medical training to independent journalists working in conflict zones and remote areas.

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Field of Study

Middle East

Subfield

Near East - Modern Middle Eastern History

Publications

"Skewed Recovery: Minority Assistance Programs to Iraq in Historical Perspective," with Philip Hoffman and Monica Widmann, Luskin Center for History and Policy, June 2021

"Germany's Syrian Refugee Integration Experiment," The Century Foundation, September 6, 2018

"A 'Nation in Pieces': Views from Syrians in Exile," with Sima Ghaddar, The Century Foundation, November 30, 2017

Conference Presentations

"Skewed Recovery: Minority Assistance Programs to Iraq in Historical Perspective," Upcoming Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA) of North America in Montréal, Québec, Canada, October 28 - 31, 2021

"Reconsidering Home: Syrian Refugees, Émigrés and Exiles Confront a New National Identity," Presented at the Graduate Student Conference at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Center for World History, April 12, 2019

Advisors

James Gelvin

Degrees

Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs (2009 - 2011): MA in International Affairs 

Smith College (2001 - 2005): BA in Government; BA in Italian Language and Literature