Hello everyone—here’s my #introduction post! [Edit: I wrote this in December 2022.]

I’m a historian. I teach & write about the #MiddleEast with a focus on twentieth-century @iraq

I live in #Seattle & boost local news. I’m #Assyrian.

My first book, City of Black Gold (2019), is a history of Kirkuk - where the #oil industry started in #Iraq - that explains how ethnicity as a political practice grew out of the intersections of colonialism, nation building, urbanization, and #petroleum.