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Orit Bashkin

Orit Bashkin

Professor of Middle Eastern history

Orit Bashkin is a historian and a professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. She is the Mabel Greene Myers Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History.

Career

Bashkin received her her B.A. and M.A. degrees in 1995 and 1999 from Tel Aviv University, and her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2004. As of 2023 she is the Mabel Greene Myers Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History.[1] Bashkin began her research on Iraq in the mid-1990s.[2]

Works

  • Bashkin, Orit (2009). The Other Iraq: Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq. Stanford University Press.[3]
  • Bashkin, Orit (2012). New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq. Stanford University Press.[4]
  • Bashkin, Orit (2017). Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel. Stanford University Press.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    "Orit Bashkin | Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | University of Chicago". nelc.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 5 April 2023.
  2. [2]
    Bombardieri, Marcella. "A talk with Orit Bashkin". boston.com. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  3. [3]
    Reviews of The Other Iraq
  4. [4]
    Reviews of New Babylonians
  5. [5]
    Reviews of Impossible Exodus


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