Education

B.A., Baghdad University
B.A., American University of Beirut
M.A. and Ph.D., Columbia University

Biography

Zainab Saleh, Ph.D. Sociocultural Anthropology, Columbia University, is Visiting Assistant Professor in Anthropology. Her research focuses on memory, nostalgia, belonging, war, and violence in Iraq and the Iraqi Diaspora. She examines the transformative impact that the US occupation of Iraq had on the  London-based Iraqi community’s social and political landscape. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled,  Inhabiting Destruction: Exile, Political Subjectivity, and the Iraqi Diaspora.