Orit Bashkin

Orit Bashkin is Associate Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Her publications include articles on the history of Arab Jews in Iraq, on Iraqi history, and on Arabic literature. Her book, The Other Iraq: Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq was published in 2009 by Stanford University Press and her forthcoming book, New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq will be published by Stanford next year.