Ola Galal
Student Fellow
Ola Galal is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center. Her research focuses on feminism, human rights, and justice in Tunisia. She holds an MA in sociology and anthropology from the American University in Cairo. Previously, she worked as a journalist covering the Middle East and North Africa, and her writings appeared in Mada Masr, Jadaliyya, and Bloomberg Newsweek.
Participating Years
2021–2022
Agrarian Questions, Urban Connections, and Planetary Possibilities: Fire, Water, Earth and Air
The material conditions of agrarian life are deeply connected to the political, social, economic, environmental and cultural challenges of contemporary existence at a planetary scale. Agrarian spaces are central to geopolitical disputes over land and other natural resources, and rural social movements play a key role in defending biodiversity and food production.