About
We at Archive Iraq are an international, multilingual network of scholars who strive to create, recover, and maintain collective memory, fill gaps in cultural and historical records, and create open access educational materials that offer an inclusive, holistic, and corrective account that lends itself to community efforts for accountability and justice.
Michael Brill is a PhD candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University and was previously a Global Fellow in the History and Public Policy Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He has written extensively about Iraqi archival records, especially from the era of Saddam Hussein and Ba’th Party rule. His work has appeared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies and the Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World.
Ross Caputi is the Director of Archives at Archive Iraq and a doctoral candidate of history at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He is also the main author of The Sacking of Fallujah: A People’s History (2019).
Patrick Deer is Associate Professor in the English department at NYU, where he teaches modern and contemporary British, American and postcolonial literature. He is faculty co-organizer of the NYU Cultures of War and the Postwar research collaborative which offers public programming with scholars, veterans, organizers, writers and artists. In addition to his scholarly book, Culture in Camouflage: War, Empire and Modern British Literature (Oxford UP, 2009; paperback 2016), he has published widely on war literature and war culture, transatlantic modernism and contemporary literature, media, music and film. He is currently working on a book project, We Are All Embedded: Understanding American War Culture Since 9/11.
Noor Ghazi is an Iraqi-American peace activist based in the United States, dedicated to fostering understanding and reconciliation across cultures. She holds a Master’s degree in Peace and Conflict Studies, focusing on International Peace Development. As a Professor of Practice at UNC Chapel Hill and a visiting lecturer at Mosul University, Noor engages deeply with local and international academic communities. Her commitment to education and peace-building includes writing and producing a long documentary highlighting life under ISIS in Mosul. She also produced a short documentary highlighting peace building efforts in the city of Mosul after liberation. With a focus on Iraq’s modern history, Noor actively promotes collaborative academic initiatives that amplify diverse voices from the region. Through her advocacy efforts, she inspires students, individuals and communities to engage in dialogue on peace and reconciliation.
Ayham Omar Idris is an interpreter from Mosul, Iraq. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Translation and Linguistics.
Dr. Kali Rubaii is the Director of Archive Iraq and an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Purdue University. Her research explores the environmental impacts of less-than-lethal militarism, and how military projects (re)arrange political ecologies in the name of “letting live.” Her book project, Counter-resurgency, examines how farmers in Anbar, Iraq struggle to survive and recover from transnational counterinsurgency projects.
Mustafa Mahmood Shukr holds a degree in Translation from the University of Mosul. He is passionate about his work as an interpreter, which he hopes will help bring the voice of his people to the world.
Nazli Tarzi is a multi-disciplinary, bilingual analyst with 9 years of experience in political risk consultancy and business intelligence. As a published academic and journalist, her portfolio focuses on state-society relations in the MENA region, as well as and violent extremist actors, quotidian life, civil disobedience and water (in)security issues. She is known for her writings on Iraq, which have been published in Al Jazeera, Al-Monitor, Arab Weekly, The New Arab, the Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World, and her TV credits include BBC Arabic and Netflix. Outside of politics, Tarzi is a keen archivist, cinephile and amateur filmmaker.Mus