Book Talk for 'Contested City: Citizen Advocacy and Survival in Modern Baghdad'

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April 21, 2025 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm ET
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Join us for an online book talk with the author, Dr. Alissa Walter!

Contested City offers a history of state-society relations in Baghdad, exploring how city residents managed through periods of economic growth, sanctions, and war, from the oil boom of the 1950s through the withdrawal of US troops in 2011.

Dr. Walter is Associate Professor of History at Seattle Pacific University. 

This event is co-sponsored by NYU Cultures of War and Postwar, Archive Iraq, UNC Department of Peace, War, and Defense, the Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy, and the UMass Departments of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies and History. View the department's statement on (co)sponsorship of events.