City and Identity in Modern Iraq: Baghdad and Nation Building

City and Identity in Modern Iraq examines the role of Baghdad in the process of shaping collective identity and analyzing how different visions of citizenship have changed the face of the city. Since the establishment of the modern state in 1921, the capital city, was central to questions of belonging.

Mustafa Obaid earned his doctorate at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz on the role of cities in the development of ethnic and cultural identities in 2024. Since September of the same year, he has been teaching and researching at the department of urban planning at the BTU-Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany.