Familiar Futures: Time, Selfhood, and Sovereignty in Iraq

Sara Pursley is Assistant Professor in the departments of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and of History at New York University. She is the author of Familiar Futures: Time, Selfhood, and Sovereignty in Iraq (Stanford University Press, 2019) and numerous articles, including “Ali al-Wardi and the Miracles of the Unconscious” in Psychoanalysis & History (2018) and "'Lines Drawn on an Empty Map': Iraq's Borders and the Legend of the Artificial State,” in Jadaliyya. From 2009-14 she served as associate editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies.

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