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Diala Lteif is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). She is also a College Research Associate at St John's College. Lteif's research interests lie in urban history, with a specific focus on the role of migration and class struggle in shaping urban spaces. Her doctoral research, supported by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and the Ontario Trillium Graduate Award, was conducted at the University of Toronto's Department of Geography and Planning. It examined the urban historical narratives of the Karantina neighborhood in Beirut, Lebanon, spanning from 1918 to 2018. Lteif’s postdoctoral work aims to explore labor mobilizations and urban politics, particularly investigating the historic mobilization led by the Butchers Union and Livestock Traders Syndicate in 1960s Beirut, which set important precedents for union activity in Lebanon. She previously served as Deputy Director of the Design Department at ALBA (Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts) and has taught Global Design to Master's students, supervising various MA thesis projects.
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