Our Team

Our Staff

Lydia Yousief, Director

Lydia Yousief is the founder and director of Elmahaba Center since June 2019. After graduating with her master’s from the Center of Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Chicago, Lydia returned to her hometown, Nashville, to support Arabic-speaking families in their pursuits of economic stability and cultural revival. By training, she’s an ethnographer and storyteller. To read more of her story, see an article she wrote for the Nashville Voyager here.

To book Lydia for a speaking event any of the topics featured on Elmahaba’s instagram, please email her.

Our Board

Our board members are appointed for their community impact and leadership and their diversity in experiences in organization. We thank them for their tremendous service.