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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/CVU0000081/00001
Notes
- Abstract:
- Romy Lynn Attieh was born in March of 1982 and grew up in Virginia, USA. She moved to Lebanon when she was 12 years old with her Lebanese mother, who owned a fashion boutique franchise in Virginia Beach and now works in merchandising fashion. Her father is a businessman and her parents are divorced. Romy did her undergraduate degree at the American University of Beirut and studied architecture. She became involved with the university's Women's Rights club and started to participate more in activist circles between 2003-2004. She participated in the Cedar Revolution of 2005. After graduation she worked as an administrative assistant for an architectural firm. She was evacuated during the 2006 War. After this she left architecture to pursue her dream of working in the arts, becoming the production manager of a dance company for 2 years. She helped create an artist collective called Jamaa Al-Yad, with a graphic designer named Daniel Drennan, which she is still a part of today. She has worked as a freelancer on her own dance production as well as an editor. At the time of the interview, she was completing her masters degree in anthropology. ( en )
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- Funding : Women's Activism in the Arab World (2013-2016). This project, funded by a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, examines the significance of middle-class women's activism to the geo/politics of Arab countries, from national independence until the Arab uprisings. It was based on over 100 personal narratives of women activists of different generations from Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon.
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- Interview conducted on: 16 October 2013
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- Duration: 1 hour and 52 minutes
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- Language of interview: English
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- Audio transcription by Captivate Arabia, Amman, Jordan , info@captivatearabia.com
- General Note:
- آسيا -- لبنان -- بيروت -- بيروت
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- VIAF (name authority) : Pratt, Nicola Christine : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/49147457
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- University of Warwick
- Rights Management:
- © 2013 the Interviewer and Interviewee. All rights reserved. Used here with permission.
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