Laleh Khalili

Laleh Khalili
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Texas (BS)
Columbia University (PhD)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of London

Laleh Khalili (Persian: لاله خلیلی) is an Iranian American and Professor of Gulf Studies at University of Exeter. She was formerly a Professor of Middle Eastern Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and a Professor of International Politics at Queen Mary University of London.

Life

Laleh Khalili received a BS in chemical engineering from the University of Texas in 1991, a master of international affairs from Columbia University in 1999, and a PhD in political science from Columbia University in 2004. Her primary research areas are logistics and trade, infrastructure, policing and incarceration, gender, nationalism, political and social movements, refugees, and diasporas in the Middle East.[1] Her commentary on Middle Eastern and Iranian affairs has been used in several newspapers, including The Washington Post,[2] the San Francisco Chronicle,[3] the Chicago Tribune, the Financial Times, and Agence France-Presse. Khalili writes regularly for Iranian.com and The London Review of Books.

In 2007, Khalili signed an open letter in support of Haleh Esfandiari.[4] She was part of the anti-racist coalition that reviewed an article by Kamel Daoud on violence against women in Cologne.[5] The collective argued that Daoud used stereotypes and orientalist themes.[6]

Khalili gave the Royal Geographical Society's 2024 Antipode lecture, entitled "Where is Palestine? Singapore on the Med, Spaceships, and the Mount of Olives".[7]

Bibliography

  • Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration. Cambridge, UK; New York:, 2007. ISBN 9780521106382, OCLC 494519376[8]
  • Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies. Stanford University Press, USA ; Palo Alto :, 2012. ISBN 9780804778336, OCLC 838555977[9]
  • Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula. Verso Books, UK; London :, 2020. ISBN 9781786634818[10]
  • The Corporeal Life of Seafaring. Mack Books, UK; London :, 2024. ISBN 9781915743268[11]

Scholarly articles

  • “'Fighting Over Drones'” (2012). Middle East Report 264 (Fall): pp. 18–22.[12]
  • "'Gendered Practices of Counterinsurgency'" (2011). Review of International Studies37(4): 1471–1491.[13]
  • “'The New (and Old) Classics of Counterinsurgency'” (2010) Middle East Report 255 (Summer): pp. 14–23.[14]
  • “'The Location of Palestine in Global Counterinsurgencies'” (2010). International Journal of Middle East Studies 42(3): pp. 413–433.[15]
  • “'On Torture'” (2008). Middle East Report 249 (Winter): pp. 32–38.[16]
  • "‘Standing with My Brother’: Hizbullah, Palestinians, and the Limits of Solidarity'" (2007). Comparative Studies in Society and History 49(2):276–303.[17]
  • "Places of Memory and Mourning: Palestinian Commemoration in the Refugee Camps of Lebanon". Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East [18] - Volume 25, Number 1, 2005, pp. 30–45

References

  1. ^ "Laleh Khalili". Department of Politics and International Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Archived from the original on 2018-05-12.
  2. ^ Sullivan, Kevin; Jordan, Mary (March 31, 2007). "In Captured Britons' Home Port, Fury With Iran Is Personal". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
  3. ^ "Travel Magazine puts Berkeley Publisher on Literary Map", Rona Marech. San Francisco Chronicle August 25, 2000
  4. ^ "Release Haleh Esfandiari". The New York Review of Books. 2007-06-28. ISSN 0028-7504. Retrieved 2018-05-11.
  5. ^ "Nuit de Cologne : " Kamel Daoud recycle les clichés orientalistes les plus éculés "". Le Monde.fr (in French). 11 February 2016. Retrieved 2018-05-11.
  6. ^ "Nuit de Cologne : " Kamel Daoud recycle les clichés orientalistes les plus éculés "". Le Monde.fr (in French). 11 February 2016. Retrieved 2018-05-17.
  7. ^ Office, Antipode Editorial (2024-08-14). "The 2024 Antipode RGS-IBG Lecture—"Where is Palestine? Singapore on the Med, Spaceships, and the Mount of Olives"". Antipode Online. Retrieved 2024-12-19.
  8. ^ Cambridge University Press
  9. ^ Stanford University Press
  10. ^ Verso Books
  11. ^ "The Corporeal Life of Seafaring".
  12. ^ Middle East Reports
  13. ^ Cambridge Journals
  14. ^ Middle East Report
  15. ^ Cambridge Journals
  16. ^ Middle East Report
  17. ^ Cambridge Journals
  18. ^ Duke University Press
External media
Audio
audio icon The Geopolitics of Maritime Transportation in the Middle East, recorded with Laleh Khalili Funambulist, May 18, 2015
Video
video icon Professor Laleh Khalili: Sinews of War and Trade, SOAS, University of London, SOAS University of London, March 16, 2015
video icon Amanpour: Laleh Khalili, Lord Levy and Ruby Wax, PBS, 04/02/2018
video icon Laleh Khalili Democracy Now!, May 11, 2018