Sintia Issa

Sintia Issa lives and writes in Beirut. She is a PhD candidate in visual studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, retelling in her dissertation the story of neoliberalism in postwar Lebanon through the story of waste. Her public contributions on the politics of infrastructure, labor, migration, feminist histories, and visual culture have appeared in the Public Source, a women-led, award-winning, independent journalism project where she is editor at large, Knowledge Workshop, Legal Agenda, and more. She trained as an art historian at the University of Toronto, then developed and taught courses at the School of Architecture and Design of the Lebanese American University.

 

Authored Essays

Beyond the Garbage Politics of Emergency: The Paradox of Infrastructural Failure in Beirut’s Peripheries