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Orit Bashkin is a historian who works on the intellectual, social and cultural history of the modern Middle East. She got my Ph.D. from Princeton University (2004), writing a thesis on Iraqi intellectual history under the supervision of Professors Robert Tignor and Samah Selim, and my BA (1995) and MA (1999) from Tel Aviv University. She is professor of modern Middle Eastern history in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Her publications, including 40 articles and book chapters, deal with Iraqi history, the history of Iraqi Jews, the Arab cultural revival movement (the nahda) in the late 19th century, and the connections between modern Arab history and Arabic literature. She is the author of the following books: Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel, Stanford University Press, 2017; New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq, Stanford University Press, 2012; The Other Iraq – Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq, Stanford University Press, 2009.
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After Censorship: We Gain Creativity – Middle East Union Values and Language
Sun, 15. Aug // 18:00,
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