Shenah Abdullah, is a lecturer at Kurdistan Institution for Strategic Studies and Scientific Research specialized in the study of Social Anthropology.

She holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology/ Kurdish Studies from the University of Exeter in 2019 and a Masters of Arts in Visual Anthropology from the University of Kent in 2009.

Her ethnographic research in the city of Slêmanî focuses on oral history documentation, neoliberalism, and everyday living, effects of external interventions, and examination of British Colonial and Local archives. Her Ph.D. thesis addressed the effects of external interventions on the lives of Slemanians from the nineteenth century through the twenty-first century.

E-mail: shenah.abdullah@kissr.edu.iq