Rheim Alkadhi, Transynchronic, to lovingly inhabit this despised earth, 2019-2022, photograph that has been digitally, conceptually, or otherwise altered. Courtesy the artist. 

Dr. Kali Rubaii is an assistant professor of Anthropology at Purdue University. Through forensic ethnography along the supply chains of war, work focuses on displacement, and environmental health justice. She is leading three projects on 1) how Iraq’s concrete industry is instrumental to militarized privatization in post-war reconstruction, 2) how displaced communities travel to and from their land during episodes of military violence, and 3) how the epidemic of congenital anomalies in Fallujah is understood as a figure of long-term, intergenerational toxification.

Laleh Khalili is the author or editor of 7 books including Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula (Verso 2020) and Extractive Capitalism: Commodities, Corporations and Cronyism (Profile Books forthcoming).

Kanwal Hameed is an inter-disciplinary historian with a background in Middle East Studies. Her work is about mid-20th century national, anti-colonial and anti-imperial leftist movements, with a focus on a Gulf radical tradition and its regional and global entanglements. She is interested in worldmaking at the margins, Archives and archival commons, and history writing from below, through intersections of class, gender, citizenship and race.