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Read an essay by SIMA SHAKHSARI and excerpts from her book, The Politics of Rightful Killing.

A panel discussion with SINAN ANTOON (NYU Gallatin) and SIMA SHAKHSARI (University of Minnesota) moderated by ZAINAB SALEH (Haverford College).

THROUGHOUT THE 20TH AND 21ST CENTURIES, debates on citizenship and belonging in Iran and Iraq have shaped government practices and popular struggles alike. They have become embedded in national discourses and practices of state formation, imperial interventions and geopolitical calculations, and popular mobilizations to (re)configure belonging and boundaries. The disparities between ideologies of citizenship and their daily operations are tied to the construction of racial, ethnic, class, political, and religious differences within the state and civil society. SIMA SHAKHSARI and SINAN ANTOON address the ways citizenship have been articulated, rearticulated, and disarticulated in nexuses of power and empire, mobility and diaspora, political activism, class and gender, and media technologies.