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Orit Bashkin
University of Chicago
Occupation
Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: (773) 834-8346
Dept of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
University of Chicago 201 Pick Hall, 5828 S University Ave
Chicago IL 60637
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Colonialism
Cultural Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Nationalism
19th-21st Centuries
Arab Studies
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Iraq
Israel
Specialties
Arab Intel Hist
Iraqi Hist
Jewish Hist
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
French (intermediate)
German (intermediate)
Hebrew (native)
Turkish (advanced)
Education
PhD | 2004 | NE Stds | Princeton U
Abstracts
"When the Safras met the Dajanis" - Syrian Jews, Refugees, and the Question of Palestine Stalin As Abu Shawarib – Iraqi Jews and the Iraqi Communist Party When Nationalism collides; The Farhud, Iraqi Jewry and Politicized Violence Urban Violence and the Rebirth of the Arab Jew, Baghdad and Tel Aviv Historical Lynching: Violence, Ethnicity, and Religious Minorities in novels from Bilad al-Sham. Iraqi Home Away from Home – Jewish Reflections on Iraq in the Diaspora The Mizrahi Question, the Palestinian Question and Matzpen A Dream about Hell, A Dream about Freedom- Zahawi's Rebellion in Hell An Egyptian Iraqi Nahda 1890-1935 Gendered Migrations: Iraqi Jewish Women and the Quest for Emancipation