Diala Lteif, Planning PhD Student

Home Campus:
U of T St. George
PhD:
One hundred years of refuge: Displacement and the making of Beirut (1918-2018)
Other Degrees:
BA + MA in interior architecture - Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA)
MFA in Transdisciplinary Design - Parsons the New School for Design
Honours & Awards:
2018 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholarship
2016 - Ontario Trillium Doctoral Scholarship
2011 - Fulbright Scholarship Masters
Supervisor(s):
Kanishka Goonewardena (Geography and Planning) and Jens Hanssen (Arab Civilization, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean history)
Contact Information:
email: diala.lteif@mail.utoronto.ca
Office: Room 5017B – Sidney Smith Hall, University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, ON
Research Interests:
- Displacement and forced migration
- Conflict and post-war cities
- Urban struggle and the production of space
- Everyday life of refuge
- Urban history
Teaching This Academic Year:
Course Instructor: GGR217 Urban Landscapes and Planning
Research Clusters:
Cities and Everyday Life, Political Spaces