آية أبو باشا

Ayah Abo-Basha is a writer, researcher, and medical anthropologist. Her work extends from her research on caregiving relationships and fieldwork tracing Palestinian prisoners’ hunger-strikes. She is interested in the questions posed when we unravel the “outside of” status of people with carceral experiences and/or mental illness and position them – the wounds they carry with them, the worlds they refuse, and the worlds they (re)make– as constitutive of the social we all inhabit. Her ethnographic approach attends to the wounds inhered within our bodies and within our urban landscapes. She is invested in forms of collective knowledge production with anthropologists, artists, and healthcare practitioners. Ayah studied medical anthropology at Princeton University after completing a post-MA visiting fellowship at the University of Witwatersrand’s City Institute in Johannesburg. She holds an MA in anthropology from the American University in Cairo and a BA in anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis.