Zainab Bahrani

Zainab Bahrani is an Iraqi Assyriologist and is Edith Porada Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology at Columbia University. She was elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020. In 2019 she was awarded an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship; she previously held a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003. In 2009 she was awarded the James Henry Breasted Prize. Her book The Graven Image demonstrated "a complete overturning of Eurocentric representations of the cultural and artistic legacies of ancient Assyria and Babylonia".