Interpreters of Occupation: Gender and the Politics of Belonging in an Iraqi Refugee Network
(Part of the Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East Series)
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During the Iraq War, thousands of young Baghdadis worked as interpreters for US troops, becoming the front line of the so-called War on Terror. Deployed by the military as linguistic as well as cultural interpreters--translating the "human terrain" of Iraq--members of this network urgently honed identification strategies amid suspicion from US forces, fellow Iraqis, and, not least of all, one another. In Interpreters of Occupation, Campbell traces...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0815634374
ISBN13:9780815634379
Release Date:May 2016
Publisher:Syracuse University Press
Length:280 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"
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