Farida Youssef

Farida Youssef is the 2021-2022 Residential Fellow at CILAS in charge of the Poetic and Philosophical Inquiry course in the Liberal Arts strand. Key to her work and interests are art criticism, spatial theory and 20th century history of philosophy. In 2017, she obtained an MA from University College London. Her thesis focused on the interplay of space, aesthetics and dramaturgy in Rancière’s thought and Marivaux’s plays. In 2018, she was a Merut Fellow at the British Museum where she contributed to the Modern Egypt Project, by approaching archeology through the lens of contemporary philosophy.