ANNIE GREENE

Dr. Annie Greene is an assistant professor of modern Middle East history at the University of Utah. She is an intellectual and cultural historian, interested in the Ottoman Empire quite broadly, and Iraq, in particular. Her scholarship focuses on the Nahda (the Arab Renaissance) of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, the debates and ideas that comprised it, and the communities of intellectuals within its networks. Her current book project, Eastern Lights: The Arab Renaissance in Iraq examines this intellectual production and consumption in Iraq, challenging present understandings of who, what, where, when, why and how Nahda intellectuals were writing. She has also published on gender history and histories of Jews of the Islamic world. She treats the Iraqi Jewish community as a part of, not apart from, the Ottoman and Indian Ocean world intellectual and cultural networks she traces. Her next book project is about the first newspaper in Iraq, Ha-Dover (1863-1871), which was written in the Hebrew script.