Noha Fikry

Noha Fikry is a PhD student in sociocultural anthropology at the University of Toronto. She was previously nurtured for seven years among incredible mentors at the American University in Cairo's anthropology department for, earning a bachelor's degree and a master's degree. Noha is interested in exploring food and human and animal relations in Egypt. Her research publications and undergraduate research papers are here: https://aucegypt.academia.edu/NohaFikry.

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Giving Students Feedback that Inspires

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Giving Students Feedback that Inspires

During one failed attempt to empty my university email inbox, I came across a few emails dating back to 2014, the year in which I changed my undergraduate major... More

What I Wish Someone Taught Me When I Applied to My PhD: Considerations for Professors of Incoming (International) Students

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What I Wish Someone Taught Me When I Applied to My PhD: Considerations for Professors of Incoming (International) Students

Fall is here and the new academic year has started. Three years ago, this coincided with my first active steps towards applying to a doctoral program in sociocu... More

Ethnographic Experiments for Undergraduates: Reflections from The Ethnography Lab at the University of Toronto

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Ethnographic Experiments for Undergraduates: Reflections from The Ethnography Lab at the University of Toronto

Watching and analyzing TikTok viral videos, walking and engaging with students on campus, and attending meetings of a particular social movement are examples of... More

Teaching as Performance: On Scripts, Preparing for Classes, and Teaching with Passion

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Teaching as Performance: On Scripts, Preparing for Classes, and Teaching with Passion

When I first started teaching as an adjunct faculty member at the American University in Cairo in 2018, I ran to one of my favorite mentors to share the excitin... More

Abayas: Shopping for Floor-Length Convenience, Modesty, and Transgression in Urban Cairo

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Abayas: Shopping for Floor-Length Convenience, Modesty, and Transgression in Urban Cairo

Typically floor-length, black, and loose, abayas are dresses worn by women of working, middle, and upper classes in Egypt and other regions in the world. Conven... More

Rooftop “Recipes” for Relating: A Commentary on Recipes, Ethnography, and Theory

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Rooftop “Recipes” for Relating: A Commentary on Recipes, Ethnography, and Theory

I titled my 2018 anthropology MA thesis for The American University in Cairo “Rooftop Recipes for Relating: Ecologies of Humans, Animals, and Life,” but it took... More