Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Costs of War

Zainab Saleh

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Coordinator of Middle East and Islamic Studies, Haverford College

Zainab Saleh is the author of Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia (2020). Currently, she is working on a book entitled Uprooted Memories: Citizenship, Denaturalization, and Deportation in Iraq. Her work appeared in Arab Studies Journal, American Anthropologist, and Anthropology News.

Areas of Interest: Iraq, Empire, displacement, selfhood, nostalgia