Many scholars of the Middle East follow, with grave concern, and some modest hope, the fate of Stanford University Press (SUP). Initially, Stanford University Provost Persis Drell announced the school’s intention to cut the 1.7-million-dollar annual subsidy to the press. The amount, according to..
Orit Bashkin
Orit Bashkin is Associate Professor of Modern Middle East History at the University of Chicago. She is the author of The Other Iraq: Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq (Stanford, 2008) and New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq (Stanford, 2012).