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Zainab Bahrani Quotes

born 1962

Zainab Bahrani (born 29 August 1962) is an Iraqi Assyriologist and is Edith Porada Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology at Columbia University.

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The image of Mesopotamia, upon which we still depend, was necessary for a march of progress from East to West, a concept of world cultural development that is explicitly Eurocentric and imperialist. (Bahrani 1999: 172)

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