Yesmine Abida

Yesmine Abida is a Tunisian nonfiction writer, researcher and photographer based between Abu Dhabi, Oxford and Nabeul. She is a candidate for the Masters of Philosophy in Modern Middle Easter Studies at the University of Oxford. Her artistic practices are inspired by the methods of oral history, focusing on nostalgia as an anchor to the past, its role in reshifting one’s relationship with the places one inhabits and fragmenting effect on the self. Her research focuses on oral histories and diasporic experiences, as a continuation of her undergraduate dissertation, “An Ethnography of Nostalgia: Remembering and Preserving Judeo-Nabeul in the Diaspora Decades,” which completed her BA in History and Arab Crossroads Studies at NYU Abu Dhabi. Yesmine thinks of Nabeul all the time. She tweets @yesmemez