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. SEE PAPER > The Human Cost of U.S. Interventions in Iraq: A History from the 1960s Through the Post-9/11 Wars (2020)

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