The Architecture of War

The Architecture of War: The Destructions of Iraq and the Rise of Petro-cultural Imaginaries in the Persian Gulf Region is Al-Adeeb’s book manuscript in progress. It examines global war geographies, militarization, and oil economies as they manifest through infrastructure and architecture, material and visual culture, and collective memory, with a focus on West Asia — Iraq and the Gulf region in particular.

The book grows out of her doctoral dissertation at New York University, The Architecture of War: U.S. Invasion of Iraq and its Cultural Engineering Project, advised by Ella Shohat. A new chapter, developed during her fellowship at the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies, turns to contemporary artists who reconceptualize the ends of worlds through alternative collectives and imaginaries.