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Orit Bashkin
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Orit Bashkin is a historian. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago . Bashkin began her research on Iraq in the mid-1990s. She received her her B.A. and M.A. degrees in 1995 and 1999 from Tel Aviv University , and her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2004.1
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historian
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historian and a professor in the department of middle eastern studies at the university of chicago
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