Zeynep (Zainab) Saleh
Associate Professor of Anthropology at Haverford College and scholar of migration, displacement, colonialism, and citizenship law, author of Political Undesirables (Stanford UP, 2025) and Return to Ruin (2020).
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Jan 24, 2026 • 44min
Zainab Saleh, "Political Undesirables: Citizenship, Denaturalization, and Reclamation in Iraq" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Zeynep (Zainab) Saleh, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Haverford College and author of Political Undesirables, studies migration, displacement, and citizenship law. She explores mass denaturalization in Iraq, tracing legal roots from 1924 nationality rules to expulsions of Iraqi Jews and Iraqis of Iranian origin. She discusses archival research, memoirs, and the politics of state rhetoric and belonging.
