Description
Partly inspired by true events, Joost Hiltermann’s The Resurrected traces the lives of two young Kurdish survivors of Saddam Hussein’s 1988 Anfal campaign as they escape Iraq and attempt to rebuild their lives in America.
Blending testimony, fiction and historical memory, the novel explores genocide, exile, trauma and the enduring weight of the past. In this special conversation, Hiltermann reflects on the relationship between literature and historical violence, the complexities of survival and diaspora, and the ways memory continues to shape lives long after conflict ends.
A powerful exploration of displacement, identity and the human struggle to live beyond catastrophe.
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About the Chair
Professor Eugene Rogan
Eugene Rogan is Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Oxford, where he has taught since 1991. An American citizen, he grew up in Europe and the Middle East, returning to the US for university study in Columbia and Harvard. He is author of The Arabs: A History (2009; 2nd ed. 2017) and The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East (2015). In 2017 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
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