Scholars of the history of oil have a responsibility to put the climate crisis at the center of their research and teaching. Discussions of climate change should flow naturally from the ongoing trend of political, social, and cultural histories and historical ethnographies of the Middle East tha..
Arbella Bet-Shlimon
Arbella Bet-Shlimon is Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington. She is the author of City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk, published by Stanford University Press in 2019.