In her second book, Bet-Shlimon studies how colonized people articulate their aspirations for liberation in places where imperial relationships at different scales overlap and intertwine. How do transformations in the environment and migration—especially in regions most acutely affected by climate change, and those that are central to the fossil-fuel industry—affect those processes? Examining the period between the founding of the Iraqi state in 1920 and the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, she asks: how did people in Iraq and Kuwait understand themselves, each other, and their relationship to one another against Western imperialism and across colonial land and water borders?