Laleh Khalili Explained

Laleh Khalili
Education:	University of Texas (BS) Columbia University (PhD)
Workplaces:	University 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

Khalili received a BS in chemical engineering from the University of Texas in 1991, 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, Laleh 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]

Bibliography

• Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration. Cambridge, UK; New York:, 2007., ^[7]
• Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies. Stanford University Press, USA ; Palo Alto :, 2012., ^[8]
• Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula. Verso Books, UK; London :, 2020. ^[9]
• The Corporeal Life of Seafaring. Mack Books, UK; London :, 2024. ^[10]

Scholarly articles

• “'Fighting Over Drones'” (2012). Middle East Report 264 (Fall): pp. 18–22.^[11]
• "'Gendered Practices of Counterinsurgency'" (2011). Review of International Studies37(4): 1471–1491.^[12]
• “'The New (and Old) Classics of Counterinsurgency'” (2010) Middle East Report 255 (Summer): pp. 14–23.^[13]
• “'The Location of Palestine in Global Counterinsurgencies'” (2010). International Journal of Middle East Studies 42(3): pp. 413–433.^[14]
• “'On Torture'” (2008). Middle East Report 249 (Winter): pp. 32–38.^[15]
• "‘Standing with My Brother’: Hizbullah, Palestinians, and the Limits of Solidarity'" (2007). Comparative Studies in Society and History 49(2):276–303.^[16]
• "Places of Memory and Mourning: Palestinian Commemoration in the Refugee Camps of Lebanon". Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East ^[17] - Volume 25, Number 1, 2005, pp. 30–45

External links

• SOAS faculty page
• How Empire Operates: An Interview with Laleh Khalili, Viewpoint Magazine, February 1, 2018
• Logistics, Counterinsurgency and the War on Terror: An Interview with Laleh Khalili, George Souvlis

Notes and References

1. Web site: Laleh Khalili . Department of Politics and International Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. https://web.archive.org/web/20180512044254/https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff36189.php . 2018-05-12 .
2. News: In Captured Britons' Home Port, Fury With Iran Is Personal . Kevin . Sullivan . Mary . Jordan . March 31, 2007 . . 2022-07-02.
3. "Travel Magazine puts Berkeley Publisher on Literary Map", Rona Marech. San Francisco Chronicle August 25, 2000
4. News: Release Haleh Esfandiari. 2007-06-28. The New York Review of Books. 2018-05-11. en. 0028-7504.
5. News: Nuit de Cologne : " Kamel Daoud recycle les clichés orientalistes les plus éculés ". Le Monde.fr. 11 February 2016. fr. 2018-05-11.
6. News: Nuit de Cologne : " Kamel Daoud recycle les clichés orientalistes les plus éculés ". Le Monde.fr. 11 February 2016. fr. 2018-05-17.
7. https://archive.today/20120723073859/http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521865128&ss=fro Cambridge University Press
8. http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=21640 Stanford University Press
9. https://www.versobooks.com/books/3172-sinews-of-war-and-trade Verso Books
10. Web site: The Corporeal Life of Seafaring .
11. http://www.merip.org/mer/mer264/fighting-over-drones Middle East Reports
12. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8384892 Cambridge Journals
13. http://www.merip.org/mer/mer255/new-old-classics-counterinsurgency Middle East Report
14. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=7837159 Cambridge Journals
15. http://www.merip.org/mer/mer249/torture Middle East Report
16. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=978148 Cambridge Journals
17. http://cssaame.dukejournals.org/ Duke University Press