Zainab Saleh is an assistant professor of anthropology at Haverford College. Her research focuses on subjectivity, nostalgia, belonging, war, empire, citizenship laws, and violence in Iraq and the Iraqi Diaspora. She is the author of Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia (Stanford University Press, 2021). Currently, she is working on a book project titled Uprooted Memories: Citizenship, Denaturalization, and Deportation in Iraq, which focuses on the deportation of Iraqi Jews, Iraqis of Iranian origin, and communists throughout the twentieth century. Her work also appeared in American Anthropologist, Arab Studies Journal, Anthropology News, Costs of War project with Brown University, and Political and Legal Anthropology Review (forthcoming).