Lily Hindy
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Lily Hindy
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PhD candidate at UCLA History Department focused on human rights, migration, diaspora, Middle East. Dissertation explores how Kurds in Iraq and the diaspora used human rights to raise awareness and gain support (1970s-2000s). Cairo-born, Brooklyn-raised.
Very proud to have a chapter examining Kurdish and Iraqi attempts to claim human rights violations in the '90s in "Ba'thist Iraq Through Archives," coming June 2026 from @stanfordpress.bsky.social, edited by @samuelhelfont.bsky.social & @lisablaydes.bsky.social www.sup.org/books/histor...
Ba‘thist Iraq Through Archives | Stanford University Press
The opening of Iraq's Ba'th Party archives revolutionized the study of Iraqi politics and history, offering scholars unprecedented access to the inner workings of one of the world's most impenetrable ...
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October 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
My father just published the life story of my great-grandfather Ali Hindy, who migrated from the Beka'a Valley (in today's Lebanon) in the early 20th century and settled in West Virginia. A rich mixture of family lore, public archives, imagination and love www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-ali-hi...
September 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Recommended reading: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s “The Undocumented Americans”
September 3, 2025 at 8:34 PM