Dr Laleh Khalili
BSc (Texas) MPhil, PhD (Columbia)
Overview
Department of Politics and International Studies
Reader in Middle East Politics
Centre for Palestine Studies (CPS)
Member
Centre for the International Politics of Conflict, Rights and Justice
Founding Member
Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies
Member
London Middle East Institute (LMEI)
Member
Centre for Gender Studies
Member
- Name:
- Dr Laleh Khalili
- Email address:
- lk4@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4735
- Address:
- SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 210
- Office Hours:
- 10-12 Tuesdays
Teaching
Courses Taught
PhD Students supervised
- Arash Sedighi, Rhizomatic Responses: The Politics of Women's Football in the Islamic Republic of Iran
- Benjamin Schuetze, Unforeseen and Contradictory Consequences of US and European Democracy Promotion in Jordan
- Elian Weizman, Hegemony, Law, Resistance: The Struggle Against Zionist Hegemony in the State of Israel
- James Eastwood, The ethics of Israeli militarism: conflict and confession since 1982
- James H. Sunday, In the Shadow of the Pyramids: Power, Politics, and Participation in Contemporary Egypt
- Kim Jezabel Zinngrebe, Perceptions and practices of citizenship among Palestinian feminists in Israel
- Margarita Dimova, Dealing with the State: The Heroin Trade in Kenya
- Natalie Abou Shakra, Beyond the Culture Industry, Contemporary Music of Dissidence in the Arab world: A case study of Egypt and Lebanon
- Sanaa Alimia, The Quest for Humanity in a Dehumanised State: Afghan Refugees and Devalued Citizens in Urban Pakistan 1978-2012
- Shirin Shafaie, Contemporary Iranian War Narratives: A Dialectical Discourse Analysis
- Thanos Petouris, The Anti-Colonial Movement in Aden and the Protectorates of South Arabia, 1937-1967
Expertise
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Available for
- TV
- Radio
- Press
- Briefings
- Special Study Programmes
Regional Expertise
- Near and Middle East
Country Expertise
- Iran
- Lebanon
- Palestine
Languages
- Arabic
Publications
Authored Books
Khalili, Laleh (2012) Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies. Stanford University Press.
Khalili, Laleh (2007) Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration. Cambridge University Press.
Edited Books
Khalili, Laleh and Schwedler, Jillian, eds. (2010) Policing and Prisons in the Middle East: Formations of Coercion. London: Hurst; New York: Columbia University Press.
Khalili, Laleh, ed. (2008) Politics of the Modern Arab World: Critical Concepts (4 Volumes). London: Routledge.
Khalili, Laleh and Treacher, Amal and Alldred, Pam, eds. (2008) War. Feminist Review, vol.88. Palgrave Macmillan.
Book Chapters
Khalili, Laleh (2012) 'Al-Gindir wa Hurub Mukfaha Al-Tamarrud Al-Haditha (Gender and Modern Counterinsurgencies).' In: Said Makdisi, Jean and Hidawi, Rafif Reza and Bayyumi, Nuha, (eds.), Al-Nasawiyya Al-Arabiyya: Rawiyya Al-Naqdiyya. Centre for Arab Unity Studies, pp. 473-482.
Khalili, Laleh (2010) 'Palestinians: The Politics of Control, Invisibility and the Spectacle.' In: Manifestations of Identity: The Lived Reality of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon. Beirut: Institute of Palestine Studies.
Khalili, Laleh and Schwedler, Jillian (2010) 'Introduction.' In: Khalili, Laleh and Schwedler, Jillian, (eds.), Policing and Prisons in the Middle East: Formations of Coercion. London: Hurst; New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 1-37.
Khalili, Laleh (2010) 'Tangled Webs of Coercion: Parastatal Production of Violence in Abu Ghraib.' In: Khalili, Laleh and Schwedler, Jillian, (eds.), Policing and Prisons in the Middle East: Formations of Coercion. London: Hurst; New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 77-96.
Khalili, Laleh (2010) 'The Ethics of Social Science Research.' In: Heacock, Roger and Conte, Edouard, (eds.), Critical Research in the Social Sciences: A Transdisciplinary East-West Handbook. Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Centre for International Studies.
Khalili, Laleh (2008) 'Incarceration and the state of exception: al-Ansar mass detention camp in Lebanon.' In: Lentin, Ronit, (ed.), Thinking Palestine. London: Zed Books.
Khalili, Laleh (2008) 'Introduction.' In: Khalili, Laleh, (ed.), Politics of the Modern Arab World. London: Routledge.
Khalili, Laleh and Humphries, Isabelle (2007) 'The Gender of Nakba Memory.' In: Sa'adi, Ahmad and Abu-Lughod, Lila, (eds.), Nakba: Palestine, 1948 and the Claims of Memory. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 207-227.
Khalili, Laleh (2005) 'Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon and the Right of Return.' In: Lustick, Ian and Lesch, Ann, (eds.), Exile and Return: Predicaments of Palestinians and Jews. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, pp. 19-40.
Khalili, Laleh (2005) 'Virtual Nation: Palestinian Cyberculture in Lebanese Camps.' In: Stein, R. L. and Swedenburg, T., (eds.), Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture. Duke University Press, pp. 126-149.
Articles
Khalili, Laleh (2012) 'Fighting Over Drones.' Middle East Report (264). pp. 18-21.
Khalili, Laleh (2010) 'Gendered Practices of Counterinsurgency.' Review of International Studies . Firstview article.
Khalili, Laleh (2010) 'The New (and Old) Classics of Counterinsurgency.' Middle East Report (255).
Khalili, Laleh (2010) 'The Location of Palestine in Global Counterinsurgencies.' International Journal of Middle East Studies, 42 (3). pp. 413-433.
Khalili, Laleh (2008) 'Massacres and Battles: Commemorating Contentious Moments in the Refugee Camps of Lebanon.' American Behavioral Scientist, 51 (11).
Khalili, Laleh (2008) 'On Torture.' Middle East Report (249).
Khalili, Laleh (2007) 'Heroic and Tragic Pasts: Mnemonic Narratives in the Palestinian Refugee Camps.' Critical Sociology, 33 (4). pp. 731-59.
Khalili, Laleh (2007) ''Standing with My Brother': Hizbullah, Palestinians, and the Limits of Solidarity.' Comparative Studies in Society and History, 49 (2). pp. 276-303.
Khalili, Laleh (2005) 'Landscapes of Uncertainty: Palestinians in Lebanon.' Middle East Report, 236 . pp. 34-39.
Khalili, Laleh and n/a, (2005) 'Places of Mourning and Memory: Palestinian Commemoration in the Refugee Camps of Lebanon.' Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 25(1) . pp. 30-45.
Khalili, Laleh (2004) 'Grass-roots Commemorations: Remembering the Land in the Camps of Lebanon.' Journal of Palestine Studies, 34 (1). pp. 6-22.
Conference or Workshop Items
Khalili, Laleh (2011) Too Early to Tell: When Is a Revolution a Revolution? In: Revolution in the Arab World: The Long View, Georgetown University.
Book Reviews
Khalili, Laleh (2011) 'A review of Rebecca Roberts 19 Palestinians in Lebanon: Refugees Living with Long-Term Displacement.' Journal of Palestine Studies, 41 (1). pp. 118-119.
Khalili, Laleh (2009) 'A review of Salim Tamari’s Mountain against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture.' Times Higher Education .
Khalili, Laleh (2009) 'A review of Lisa Wedeen’s Peripheral Visions: Publics, Power, and Performance in Yemen.' Times Higher Education .
Khalili, Laleh (2009) 'A review of Rebecca Stein’s Itineraries in Conflict: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Political Lives of Tourism.' Times Higher Education .
Khalili, Laleh (2009) 'A review of Benoit Challand’s Palestinian Civil Society: Foreign Donors and the Power to Promote and Exclude.' Perspectives on Politics, 7 (3). pp. 684-685.
Khalili, Laleh (2008) 'A review of Ilana Feldman’s Governing Gaza: Bureaucracy, Authority, and the Work of Rule, 1917-1967.' Times Higher Education .
Khalili, Laleh (2008) 'Homeland Insecurity: A Review of Saree Makdisi’s Palestine Inside Out.' Times Higher Education .
Khalili, Laleh (2008) 'Women of Iraq War: A Review of Tara McKelvey’s One of the Guys and Monstering.' Feminist Review, 88 (1).
Khalili, Laleh (2007) 'A Review of Matthew Levitt’s Hamas: politics, charity, and terrorism in the service of Jihad.' International Affairs, 83 (3). pp. 604-605.
Khalili, Laleh (2007) 'A Review of Gyanendra Pandey’s Routine Violence.' h-Nationalism .
Khalili, Laleh (2007) 'Everyday Orientalism: A review of Bernard Rougier’s Everyday Jihad.' Middle East Report (244).
Khalili, Laleh (2007) 'A Review of Nadje al-Ali’s Iraqi Women.' European Journal of Women's Studies, 15 (1). pp. 41-44.
Khalili, Laleh (2007) 'Understanding Islam in Politics: A Review Essay.' Social Movement Studies, 6 (1). pp. 105-110.
Khalili, Laleh (2006) 'A Review of Joseph Massad’s The Persistence of the Palestinian Question.' Arab Studies Journal, Autumn .
Khalili, Laleh (2006) 'A Review of Maya Rosenfeld’s Confronting the Occupation.' H-gender-middle-east .
Khalili, Laleh (2006) 'A Review of Julie Peteet’s Landscape of Hope and Despair.' Middle East Journal, 60 (2).
Khalili, Laleh (2005) 'A Review of Mohammded Hafez’s Why Muslims Rebel.' International Journal of Middle East Studies, 37 (2). pp. 271-272.
Khalili, Laleh (2004) 'A review of Simon Haddad’s The Palestinian Impasse in Lebanon and Dorothée Klaus’s Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon.' Journal of Palestine Studies, 34 (1). pp. 86-88.
