Zainab Saleh's guest appearances

Zainab Saleh

New Books in Anthropology

New Books in History

New Books in Middle Eastern Studies

Al-Markaz: Middle East Discussions + Features

New Books Network

Peter Lang

Kecia Ali

Jeremy F. Walton

Christopher J. Lee

Kathryn Conrad

McKenzie Wark

J. Neuhaus

Moshe Naor

Thomas Schmidinger

Jonathan A. C. Brown

Brian Greene

Christopher Houston

Abigail Jacobson

Alberto Cairo

Michael Muhammad Knight

OwlTail

With the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqis abroad, hoping to return one day to a better Iraq, became uncertain exiles. Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia (Stanford UP, 2020) tells the human story of this exile in the context of decades of U.S. imperial interests in Iraq—from the U.S. backing of the 1963 Ba'th coup and support of Saddam Hussein's regime in the 1980s, to the 1991 Gulf War and 2003 invasion and occupation.Zainab Saleh shares the experiences of Iraqis she met over fourteen years of fieldwork in Iraqi London—offering stories from an aging communist nostalgic for the streets she marched since childhood, a devout Shi'i dreaming of holy cities and family graves, and newly uprooted immigrants with fresh memories of loss, as well as her own. Focusing on debates among Iraqi exiles about what it means to be an Iraqi after years of displacement, Saleh weaves a narrative that draws attention to a once-dominant, vibrant Iraqi cultural landscape and social and political shifts among the diaspora after decades of authoritarianism, war, and occupation in Iraq. Through it all, this book illuminates how Iraqis continue to fashion a sense of belonging and imagine a future, built on the shards of these shattered memories.This interview is part of an NBN special series on “Mobilities and Methods.”Zainab Saleh is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Haverford College.Alize Arıcan is a PhD candidate in the department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on urban renewal, futurity, care, and migration in Istanbul, Turkey. Her work has been featured on City &amp; Society, entanglements: experiments in multimodal ethnography, and Anthropology News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/middle-eastern-studies

With the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqis abroad, hoping to return one day to a better Iraq, became uncertain exiles. <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/12343/9781503614116" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia</a> (Stanford UP, 2020) tells the human story of this exile in the context of decades of U.S. imperial interests in Iraq—from the U.S. backing of the 1963 Ba'th coup and support of Saddam Hussein's regime in the 1980s, to the 1991 Gulf War and 2003 invasion and occupation.Zainab Saleh shares the experiences of Iraqis she met over fourteen years of fieldwork in Iraqi London—offering stories from an aging communist nostalgic for the streets she marched since childhood, a devout Shi'i dreaming of holy cities and family graves, and newly uprooted immigrants with fresh memories of loss, as well as her own. Focusing on debates among Iraqi exiles about what it means to be an Iraqi after years of displacement, Saleh weaves a narrative that draws attention to a once-dominant, vibrant Iraqi cultural landscape and social and political shifts among the diaspora after decades of authoritarianism, war, and occupation in Iraq. Through it all, this book illuminates how Iraqis continue to fashion a sense of belonging and imagine a future, built on the shards of these shattered memories.This interview is part of an NBN special series on “<a href="https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/mobilities_and_methods/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mobilities and Methods</a>.”Zainab Saleh is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Haverford College.<a href="https://www.alizearican.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alize Arıcan</a> is a PhD candidate in the department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on urban renewal, futurity, care, and migration in Istanbul, Turkey. Her work has been featured on <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/ciso.12348" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">City &amp; Society</a>, <a href="https://entanglementsjournal.org/the-ghost-of-karl-marx/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">entanglements: experiments in multimodal ethnography</a>, and <a href="https://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2020/06/11/relationship-making-scaffolding-and-a-pandemic-in-istanbul/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Anthropology News</a>. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>Support our show by becoming a premium member! <a href="https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/middle-eastern-studies" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/middle-eastern-studies</a>

Zainab Saleh, "Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia" (Stanford UP, 2020)

With the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqis abroad, hoping to return one day to a better Iraq, became uncertain exiles. Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia (Stanford UP, 2020) tells the human story of this exile in the context of decades of U.S. imperial interests in Iraq—from the U.S. backing of the 1963 Ba'th coup and support of Saddam Hussein's regime in the 1980s, to the 1991 Gulf War and 2003 invasion and occupation.Zainab Saleh shares the experiences of Iraqis she met over fourteen years of fieldwork in Iraqi London—offering stories from an aging communist nostalgic for the streets she marched since childhood, a devout Shi'i dreaming of holy cities and family graves, and newly uprooted immigrants with fresh memories of loss, as well as her own. Focusing on debates among Iraqi exiles about what it means to be an Iraqi after years of displacement, Saleh weaves a narrative that draws attention to a once-dominant, vibrant Iraqi cultural landscape and social and political shifts among the diaspora after decades of authoritarianism, war, and occupation in Iraq. Through it all, this book illuminates how Iraqis continue to fashion a sense of belonging and imagine a future, built on the shards of these shattered memories.This interview is part of an NBN special series on “Mobilities and Methods.”Zainab Saleh is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Haverford College.Alize Arıcan is a PhD candidate in the department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on urban renewal, futurity, care, and migration in Istanbul, Turkey. Her work has been featured on City &amp; Society, entanglements: experiments in multimodal ethnography, and Anthropology News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

With the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqis abroad, hoping to return one day to a better Iraq, became uncertain exiles. <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/12343/9781503614116" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia</a> (Stanford UP, 2020) tells the human story of this exile in the context of decades of U.S. imperial interests in Iraq—from the U.S. backing of the 1963 Ba'th coup and support of Saddam Hussein's regime in the 1980s, to the 1991 Gulf War and 2003 invasion and occupation.Zainab Saleh shares the experiences of Iraqis she met over fourteen years of fieldwork in Iraqi London—offering stories from an aging communist nostalgic for the streets she marched since childhood, a devout Shi'i dreaming of holy cities and family graves, and newly uprooted immigrants with fresh memories of loss, as well as her own. Focusing on debates among Iraqi exiles about what it means to be an Iraqi after years of displacement, Saleh weaves a narrative that draws attention to a once-dominant, vibrant Iraqi cultural landscape and social and political shifts among the diaspora after decades of authoritarianism, war, and occupation in Iraq. Through it all, this book illuminates how Iraqis continue to fashion a sense of belonging and imagine a future, built on the shards of these shattered memories.This interview is part of an NBN special series on “<a href="https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/mobilities_and_methods/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mobilities and Methods</a>.”Zainab Saleh is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Haverford College.<a href="https://www.alizearican.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alize Arıcan</a> is a PhD candidate in the department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on urban renewal, futurity, care, and migration in Istanbul, Turkey. Her work has been featured on <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/ciso.12348" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">City &amp; Society</a>, <a href="https://entanglementsjournal.org/the-ghost-of-karl-marx/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">entanglements: experiments in multimodal ethnography</a>, and <a href="https://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2020/06/11/relationship-making-scaffolding-and-a-pandemic-in-istanbul/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Anthropology News</a>. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>Support our show by becoming a premium member! <a href="https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history</a>

With the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqis abroad, hoping to return one day to a better Iraq, became uncertain exiles. Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia (Stanford UP, 2020) tells the human story of this exile in the context of decades of U.S. imperial interests in Iraq—from the U.S. backing of the 1963 Ba'th coup and support of Saddam Hussein's regime in the 1980s, to the 1991 Gulf War and 2003 invasion and occupation.Zainab Saleh shares the experiences of Iraqis she met over fourteen years of fieldwork in Iraqi London—offering stories from an aging communist nostalgic for the streets she marched since childhood, a devout Shi'i dreaming of holy cities and family graves, and newly uprooted immigrants with fresh memories of loss, as well as her own. Focusing on debates among Iraqi exiles about what it means to be an Iraqi after years of displacement, Saleh weaves a narrative that draws attention to a once-dominant, vibrant Iraqi cultural landscape and social and political shifts among the diaspora after decades of authoritarianism, war, and occupation in Iraq. Through it all, this book illuminates how Iraqis continue to fashion a sense of belonging and imagine a future, built on the shards of these shattered memories.This interview is part of an NBN special series on “Mobilities and Methods.”Zainab Saleh is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Haverford College.Alize Arıcan is a PhD candidate in the department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on urban renewal, futurity, care, and migration in Istanbul, Turkey. Her work has been featured on City &amp; Society, entanglements: experiments in multimodal ethnography, and Anthropology News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology

With the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqis abroad, hoping to return one day to a better Iraq, became uncertain exiles. <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/12343/9781503614116" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia</a> (Stanford UP, 2020) tells the human story of this exile in the context of decades of U.S. imperial interests in Iraq—from the U.S. backing of the 1963 Ba'th coup and support of Saddam Hussein's regime in the 1980s, to the 1991 Gulf War and 2003 invasion and occupation.Zainab Saleh shares the experiences of Iraqis she met over fourteen years of fieldwork in Iraqi London—offering stories from an aging communist nostalgic for the streets she marched since childhood, a devout Shi'i dreaming of holy cities and family graves, and newly uprooted immigrants with fresh memories of loss, as well as her own. Focusing on debates among Iraqi exiles about what it means to be an Iraqi after years of displacement, Saleh weaves a narrative that draws attention to a once-dominant, vibrant Iraqi cultural landscape and social and political shifts among the diaspora after decades of authoritarianism, war, and occupation in Iraq. Through it all, this book illuminates how Iraqis continue to fashion a sense of belonging and imagine a future, built on the shards of these shattered memories.This interview is part of an NBN special series on “<a href="https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/mobilities_and_methods/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mobilities and Methods</a>.”Zainab Saleh is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Haverford College.<a href="https://www.alizearican.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alize Arıcan</a> is a PhD candidate in the department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on urban renewal, futurity, care, and migration in Istanbul, Turkey. Her work has been featured on <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/ciso.12348" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">City &amp; Society</a>, <a href="https://entanglementsjournal.org/the-ghost-of-karl-marx/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">entanglements: experiments in multimodal ethnography</a>, and <a href="https://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2020/06/11/relationship-making-scaffolding-and-a-pandemic-in-istanbul/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Anthropology News</a>. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>Support our show by becoming a premium member! <a href="https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology</a>