Authors

Rosie Bsheer, Charles Tripp, José Ciro Martínez, Nadje Al-Ali, Will Hanley, and Sara Pursley

Rosie Bsheer is Assistant Professor of History at Harvard University and author of Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia (Stanford University Press, 2020). She is Co-Editor of Jadaliyya and Associate Editor of Tadween Publishing.


Charles Tripp 
is Professor Emeritus of Politics with reference to the Middle East and North Africa, at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of: Islam and the Moral Economy: The Challenge of Capitalism (Cambridge, 2006), A History of Iraq (Cambridge, 2007), and The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East (Cambridge, 2013). He is presently working on a book on the emergence of the public and the rethinking of republican ideals in Tunisia.

José Ciro Martínez is a Title A Research Fellow in Politics at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. His first book, Performing the State: The Politics of Bread in Hashemite Jordan, will be published with Stanford University Press in Spring 2022.

Nadje Al-Ali is Robert Family Professor of International Studies and Professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies at Brown University. Her main research interests revolve around feminist activism and gendered mobilization, mainly with reference to Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, and the Kurdish political movement. Her publications include What kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq (2009, University of California Press, co-authored with Nicola Pratt); Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present (2007, Zed Books); and Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East (Cambridge University Press 2000). She is on the advisory board of kohl: a journal of body and gender research and has been involved in several feminist organizations and campaigns transnationally.

Will Hanley is a legal and social historian of the Middle East and is currently Associate Professor of History at Florida State University. He is the author of Identifying with Nationality: Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians in Alexandria (Columbia University Press, 2017). He is currently working on a Cairo-centered history of international law between 1870 and 1930.


Sara Pursley is assistant professor of modern Middle East history in the departments of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and of History at NYU. She is the author of Familiar Futures: Time, Selfhood, and Sovereignty in Iraq (Stanford University Press, 2019) and numerous articles, including “Ali al-Wardi and the Miracles of the Unconscious," Psychoanalysis & History 20/3 (2018): 337-51; "The Stage of Adolescence: Anticolonial Time, Youth Insurgency, and the Marriage Crisis in Hashimite Iraq," History of the Present 3/2 (2013): 160-97; and "'Lines Drawn on an Empty Map': Iraq's Borders and the Legend of the Artificial State," Jadaliyya, 2 June 2015.

ARTICLES BY Rosie Bsheer, Charles Tripp, José Ciro Martínez, Nadje Al-Ali, Will Hanley, and Sara Pursley