(EVENT RECORDING) Ethnicity and Conflict in Iraq's Oil City

On September 23, 2020 the Middle East Center welcomed the University of Washington's Dr. Arbella Bet-Shlimon who spoke on the topic of ethnicity and conflict in Iraq's oil city of Kirkuk. Her first book, City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk (Stanford University Press, 2019), explores how oil and urbanization made ethnicity into a political practice in Kirkuk, a multilingual city that was the original hub of Iraq's oil industry. She was joined by Penn's Professor Bob Vitalis.

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