Lidia Helou is a Lebanese-Italian Ph.D. student in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies - Culture and Representation at New York University. She currently works on the History and mechanics of sensory memory in relation to conceptions of space, time, and agency in the Levant and beyond. She holds a double degree in History and Political Sciences from the Sorbonne University, and a dual master's degree in International and World History from Columbia University and the London School of Economics.
Recent publication: Co-written with Prof. Joelle Abi-Rached,”Social Medicine in the Arab World: Colonial Legacies and Postcolonial Praxis” in Medicine on a Larger Scale–Global Histories of Social Medicine, Cambridge University Press, 2025.
When she is not in a library chasing obscure manuscripts, Lidia can be found aimlessly wandering around New York’s cultural scene.
