Eibhlin PriestleyMurray Edwards College |
Eibhlin Priestley is a History PhD student at Murray Edwards College, supervised by Andrew Arsan. She holds a BA in History with Italian from the University of Sussex and an MA in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from SOAS.
Her research focuses on the transnational and social histories of the Greater Syrian diaspora who settled in Port Said and Khartoum between 1900 and 1950. By exploring everyday life, movement between, and out of, these two classed, gendered, racialised and colonised contexts and the emergence of an "Eastern Arab Mahjar" (diaspora) given proximity to the Suez Canal, the project seeks to enrich understandings of modern Middle Eastern migration, the British colonial project, and the actors and networks involved in global trade flows.
Before starting at Cambridge, Eibhlin lived in Italy for five years working in communications, research and education for institutions including the European University Institute, the Ministry of Public Education, the Arab Studies Institute and the University of Sussex.