Thu Nov 19 · 5pm
History of Now Lectures: Orit Bashkin, A Different Critique: MENA Jewish Approaches to Zionism and Imperialism, 1830-1948
The final lecture in MIT History's History of Now series. Orit Bashkin, Mabel Greene Myers Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Chicago, examines how Middle Eastern and North African Jews approached Zionism and imperialism between 1830 and 1948. Bashkin writes on Iraqi history, Iraqi Jews and the nahda, the nineteenth-century Arab cultural revival; her books include New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq.