arbella bet-shlimon
Secretary of the board of directors
Arbella Bet-Shlimon is Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington, Seattle. A historian of Iraq and the Persian Gulf in the twentieth century, her research concerns how people articulate politics through emerging concepts of identity and how those types of individual and communal fashioning develop in relation to phenomena like colonialism, industrialization, and environmental change. Her published work addresses topics such as ethnicity in Iraq, urban planning in Kirkuk, and research ethics in Iraqi history, and has appeared in publications including the Journal of Urban History, Arab Studies Journal, and Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. She is the author of City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk (Stanford University Press, 2019).
TARII Links
Panel Event: Narratives of Co-Existence and Pluralism in Northern Iraq
Links
University of Washington Faculty Page
Book: City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk
Podcast: Ottoman History episode, “Ethnicity and Politics in an Iraqi Oil City”
