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The Main Library is closed for essential preventative maintenance with an anticipated reopening in late October.
Lydia Yousief is the founder and director of Elmahaba Center since June 2019. After graduating with her master’s from the Center of Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Chicago, Lydia returned to her hometown, Nashville, to support Arabic-speaking families in their pursuits of economic stability and cultural revival. By training, she’s an ethnographer and storyteller.
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Resources:
Articles - https://www.elmahabacenter.com/publications
Books
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Friere - https://catalog.library.nashville.org/GroupedWork/b45f919a-acfc-eebb-5d04-3e93c53fb4ff-eng/Home?searchId=99139973&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local&referred=resultIndex
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Animals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs - https://catalog.library.nashville.org/GroupedWork/bc2021fa-f0bf-e109-cdd4-51da0a008100-eng/Home?searchId=99139762&recordIndex=3&page=1&searchSource=local&referred=resultIndex
Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon - https://catalog.library.nashville.org/GroupedWork/cf36c9db-ff38-2dce-3b15-d81f20b3a815-eng/Home?searchId=99139903&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local&referred=resultIndex