Alda Benjamen

Alda Benjamen, University of California, Berkeley

Alda Benjamen is the Avimalek Betyousef Faculty Fellow in the Department of History at University of California, Berkeley where her work concerns questions about memory, home, and belonging in multilingual and diasporic communities in the context of rural-to-urban and global migrations. She is editor of a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World, 'Co-existence and Pluralism in Northern Iraq' (2020), and a roundtable for the International Journal of Middle East Studies, 'Minoritization and Pluralism in the Modern Middle East' (2018).