Phone: 919-681-0319
Email: nadia.el-shaarawi@duke.edu

Physical Address:
01D West Duke Building
Durham, NC 27708

Mailing Address:
Box 90432
Durham, NC 27708

Nadia El-Shaarawi is a Research Associate at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, where she is working on the 2012 Winter Forum and teaching as part of DukeImmerse. Prior to joining the Institute in August 2011, she was a doctoral candidate in anthropology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, where she also received a Master’s in Public Health. Her interests in medical and psychological anthropology include the effects of forced migration on health and well-being, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa. Her dissertation, based on fieldwork with Iraqi refugees in Egypt, is entitled “Living an Uncertain Future: An Ethnography of Displacement, Health, Psychosocial Well-being and the Search for Durable Solutions among Iraqi Refugees in Egypt”. Nadia also holds an MSc in medical anthropology from the University of Oxford in England and a BA from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.