Laleh Khalili
{{short description|American academic}}
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Columbia University (PhD)
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Laleh Khalili ({{langx|fa|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.{{cite web |url=https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff36189.php |title=Laleh Khalili |publisher=Department of Politics and International Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180512044254/https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff36189.php |archive-date=2018-05-12 }} Her commentary on Middle Eastern and Iranian affairs has been used in several newspapers, including The Washington Post,{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/30/AR2007033002045.html |title=In Captured Britons' Home Port, Fury With Iran Is Personal |first1=Kevin |last1=Sullivan |first2=Mary |last2=Jordan |date=March 31, 2007 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=2022-07-02}} the San Francisco Chronicle,"Travel Magazine puts Berkeley Publisher on Literary Map", Rona Marech. San Francisco Chronicle August 25, 2000 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.{{Cite news|url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2007/06/28/release-haleh-esfandiari/|title=Release Haleh Esfandiari|date=2007-06-28|work=The New York Review of Books|access-date=2018-05-11|language=en|issn=0028-7504}} She was part of the anti-racist coalition that reviewed an article by Kamel Daoud on violence against women in Cologne.{{Cite news|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2016/02/11/les-fantasmes-de-kamel-daoud_4863096_3232.html|title=Nuit de Cologne : " Kamel Daoud recycle les clichés orientalistes les plus éculés "|website=Le Monde.fr|date=11 February 2016|language=fr|access-date=2018-05-11}} The collective argued that Daoud used stereotypes and orientalist themes.{{Cite news|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2016/02/11/les-fantasmes-de-kamel-daoud_4863096_3232.html|title=Nuit de Cologne : " Kamel Daoud recycle les clichés orientalistes les plus éculés "|website=Le Monde.fr|date=11 February 2016|language=fr|access-date=2018-05-17}}
Khalili gave the Royal Geographical Society's 2024 Antipode lecture, entitled "Where is Palestine? Singapore on the Med, Spaceships, and the Mount of Olives".{{Cite web |last=Office |first=Antipode Editorial |date=2024-08-14 |title=The 2024 Antipode RGS-IBG Lecture—“Where is Palestine? Singapore on the Med, Spaceships, and the Mount of Olives” |url=https://antipodeonline.org/2024/08/14/2024-rgs-ibg-lecture/ |access-date=2024-12-19 |website=Antipode Online |language=en-GB}}
Bibliography
- Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration. Cambridge, UK; New York:, 2007. {{ISBN|9780521106382}}, {{OCLC|494519376}}[https://archive.today/20120723073859/http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521865128&ss=fro Cambridge University Press]
- Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies. Stanford University Press, USA ; Palo Alto :, 2012. {{ISBN|9780804778336}}, {{OCLC|838555977}}[http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=21640 Stanford University Press]
- Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula. Verso Books, UK; London :, 2020. {{ISBN|9781786634818}}[https://www.versobooks.com/books/3172-sinews-of-war-and-trade Verso Books]
- The Corporeal Life of Seafaring. Mack Books, UK; London :, 2024. {{ISBN|9781915743268}}{{cite web | url=https://mackbooks.co.uk/collections/frontpage/products/the-corporeal-life-of-seafaring-br-laleh-khalili | title=The Corporeal Life of Seafaring }}
Scholarly articles
- “'Fighting Over Drones'” (2012). Middle East Report 264 (Fall): pp. 18–22.[http://www.merip.org/mer/mer264/fighting-over-drones Middle East Reports]
- "'Gendered Practices of Counterinsurgency'" (2011). Review of International Studies37(4): 1471–1491.[http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8384892 Cambridge Journals]
- “'The New (and Old) Classics of Counterinsurgency'” (2010) Middle East Report 255 (Summer): pp. 14–23.[http://www.merip.org/mer/mer255/new-old-classics-counterinsurgency Middle East Report]
- “'The Location of Palestine in Global Counterinsurgencies'” (2010). International Journal of Middle East Studies 42(3): pp. 413–433.[http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=7837159 Cambridge Journals]
- “'On Torture'” (2008). Middle East Report 249 (Winter): pp. 32–38.[http://www.merip.org/mer/mer249/torture Middle East Report]
- "‘Standing with My Brother’: Hizbullah, Palestinians, and the Limits of Solidarity'" (2007). Comparative Studies in Society and History 49(2):276–303.[http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=978148 Cambridge Journals]
- "Places of Memory and Mourning: Palestinian Commemoration in the Refugee Camps of Lebanon". Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East [http://cssaame.dukejournals.org/ Duke University Press] - Volume 25, Number 1, 2005, pp. 30–45
References
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External links
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|video1= [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmnwdbW2NIM Professor Laleh Khalili: Sinews of War and Trade, SOAS, University of London], SOAS University of London, March 16, 2015
|video2 = [http://www.pbs.org/video/amanpour-laleh-khalili-lord-levy-and-ruby-wax-yci3tw/ Amanpour: Laleh Khalili, Lord Levy and Ruby Wax], PBS, 04/02/2018
|video3 = [https://www.democracynow.org/appearances/laleh_khalili Laleh Khalili] Democracy Now!, May 11, 2018
|audio1 = [https://thefunambulist.net/podcast/laleh-khalili-the-geopolitics-of-maritime-transportation-in-the-middle-east The Geopolitics of Maritime Transportation in the Middle East, recorded with Laleh Khalili] Funambulist, May 18, 2015
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- [http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff36189.php SOAS faculty page]
- [https://www.viewpointmag.com/2018/02/01/empire-operates-interview-laleh-khalili/ How Empire Operates: An Interview with Laleh Khalili], Viewpoint Magazine, February 1, 2018
- [http://salvage.zone/online-exclusive/logistics-counterinsurgency-and-the-war-on-terror-an-interview-with-laleh-khalili/ Logistics, Counterinsurgency and the War on Terror: An Interview with Laleh Khalili], George Souvlis
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