Charles R H Tripp

Department of Politics and International Studies

Research Commitee Chair & REF Coordinator

Centre on Conflict, Rights and Justice

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London Middle East Institute (LMEI)

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Centre for Palestine Studies (CPS)

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Centre for Global Media and Communications

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Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS)

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Name:

Professor Charles R H Tripp

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Wednesdays 10- 12

Biography

Charles Tripp is Professor of Politics with reference to the Middle East and a Fellow of the British Academy. His research interests include the nature of autocracy, state and resistance in the Middle East, the politics of Islamic identity and the relationship between art and power. He is currently working on a study of the emergence of the public and the rethinking of republican ideals across the states of North Africa.  Together with other colleagues in the department he has been one of the founders of the Centre for Comparative Political Thought at SOAS.  

His publications include Islam and the Moral Economy: The Challenge of Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 2006); A History of Iraq (Cambridge University Press, 2007) His most recent book is The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East (Cambridge University Press, 2013)

Courses Taught

• Approaches to Comparative Political Thought

PhD Students supervised

• Adélie Chevée, Intellectual Labour in Times of Change: Understanding the Politics of Critique in the Syrian Revolutionary Press (2011-2017) working title
• Alia Al-Senussi,
• Dominique Oliver,
• Emanuelle Degli Esposti, Through the Fractured Looking Glass: Power, Subjectivity and the State in the Iraqi Shi’a Diaspora
• Guy Robert Eyre, Understanding everyday North Africans' ideas about halal and haram lifestyles: an ethnographic study of grassroots Muslim educational and Quranic reading circles (tajwid) in Algeria and Morocco.
• Isabel Käser , Militant Femininity: The PKK-led Women's Movement in the Kurdish Middle East – A Transnational Analysis
• Jack Joy, The Spectacle of Resistance: Repertoires of Power in the Discourse of Hizbullah [working title]
• James Eastwood, The ethics of Israeli militarism: conflict and confession since 1982
• Mathilde Zederman, The Tunisian Diasporic Political Space in France (1960s - present) (working title)
• Mohammad Ali Shabani, Shi’a Brothers, Shi’a Rivals; Competition and Cooperation between Iran and Post-Saddam Iraq
• Natasa Kubikova,
• Rounwah Adly Riyadh Bseiso, Revolutionary Art during and after the Egyptian Revolution: Liminality and Creativity

Middle East: states and ideologies, war and resistance, Islamic and comparative political thought
The nature of autocracy and the sociology of power
Art and Power

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Regional Expertise

• Near and Middle East

Country Expertise

Languages

Authored Books

Tripp, Charles (2016) Al-Sultah wa-l-Sha`b - masarat al-muqawamah fi al-sharq al-awsat. Beirut: Al-Shabakah al-`Arabiyyah li-l-Abhath wa-l-Nashr.

Tripp, Charles (2013) The Power and the People: paths of resistance in the Middle East. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press.

Tripp, Charles (2009) Historia Iraku. Warsaw: Ksiazka i Wiedza.

Tripp, Charles (2007) A History of Iraq (3rd edition). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Tripp, Charles (2006) Islam and the Moral Economy: the challenge of capitalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Tripp, Charles (2006) Sahafat min ta'rikh al-`iraq al-mu`asir. Beirut: Arab Scientific Publishers.

Tripp, Charles (2003) Storia dell'Iraq. Milan: Bompiani (Italy).

Tripp, Charles (2003) Historia do Iraque. Mem Martins, Sintra: Publicacoes Europa-America (Portugal).

Tripp, Charles (2003) Historia de Iraq. Cambridge University Press (Spain).

Tripp, Charles (2002) Irak - Een Geschiedenis. Bulaaq (Netherlands).

Tripp, Charles (2002) A History of Iraq - Second Edition. Cambridge University Press (UK).

Tripp, Charles (2000) A History of Iraq. CUP.

Tripp, Charles and Chubin, S (1996) Iran-Saudi Arabia Relations and Regional Order. OUP for Int. Institute for Strategic Studies.

Articles

Tripp, Charles (2016) 'Art, power and knowledge: claiming public space in Tunisia'. Middle East Law and Governance, (9) 2-3, pp 250-274.

Tripp, Charles (2013) 'Performing the Public: theatres of power in the Middle East'. Constellations, (20) 2, pp 203-216.

Tripp, Charles (2013) 'Art of the Uprisings in the Middle East'. Brown Journal of World Affairs, (19) 2, pp 185-199.

Tripp, Charles (2012) 'The Art of Resistance in the Middle East'. Asian Affairs, (43) 3, pp 393-409.

Tripp, Charles (2009) 'All (Muslim) Politics is Local'. Foreign Affairs, (88) 5, pp 124-129.

Tripp, Charles (2002) 'After Saddam'. Survival, (vol. 4), pp 23-38.

Tripp, Charles (2001) 'Syria: the State and its Narratives [Review Article]'. Middle Eastern Studies, (vol. 3), pp 199-206.

Edited Books or Journals

Vom Bruck, Gabriele and Tripp, Charles, (eds.), (2017) Precarious belonging: Being Shi’i in non-Shi’i worlds. London: Centre for Academic Shia Studies.

Collins, Paul and Tripp, Charles, (eds.), (2017) Gertrude Bell and Iraq - a Life and Legacy. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy. (Proceedings of the British Academy; 205).

Book Chapters

Vom Bruck, Gabriele and Tripp, Charles (2017) 'Introduction'. Precarious belonging: Being Shi’i in non-Shi`i worlds. London: Centre for Academic Shia Studies, pp 1-26.

Vom Bruck, Gabriele (2016) 'How the past casts its shadows: Struggles for ascendancy in northern Yemen in the post-Salih era'. In: Vom Bruck, Gabriele and Tripp, Charles, (eds.), Precarious belonging: Being Shi’i in non-Shi’i worlds. London: CASS. [Forthcoming]

Tripp, Charles (2014) 'The Politics of Resistance and the Arab Uprisings'. In: Gerges, Fawaz A., (ed.), The New Middle East: protest and revolution in the Arab World. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp 135-154.

Tripp, Charles (2012) 'Acting and acting out: Conceptions of political participation in the Middle East'. In: Freeden, Michael and Vincent, Andrew, (eds.), Comparative Political Thought: Theorizing Practices. London: Routledge.

Tripp, Charles (2010) 'West Asia from the First World War'. In: Robinson, Francis, (ed.), The Islamic World in the Age of Western Dominance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp 336-371.

Tripp, Charles (2008) 'The Security Council and the Iran-Iraq War'. In: Lowe, Vaughan and Roberts, Adam and Welsh, Jennifer and Zaum, Dominik, (eds.), The United Nations Security Council and War. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, pp 368-383.

Tripp, Charles (2007) ''In the Name of the People'. The 'People's Court' and the Iraqi Revolution (1958-1960)'. In: Strauss, J. C. and Cruise O'Brien, D. B., (eds.), Staging Politics. Power and Performance in Asia and Africa. London: I.B. Tauris, pp 31-48.

Tripp, Charles (2007) 'Islam and the Contingency of Politics'. In: Almquist, Kurt, (ed.), The Secular State and Islam in Europe. Stockholm, Sweden: Axel & Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation, pp 81-96.

Tripp, Charles (2002) 'L'Irak et la guerre de 1948: une image du désordre en Irak'. In: L., E and Shlaim, A, (eds.), La Guerre de Palestine: derriere le mythe 1948. Editions Autrement (France), pp 119-148.

Tripp, Charles (2002) 'The Foreign Policy of Iraq'. In: Hinnebusch, R and Ehteshami, A, (eds.), The Foreign Policies of Middle East States. Lynne Rienner Publishers (USA), pp 167-192.

Tripp, Charles (2001) 'Iraq and the 1948 War: Mirror of Iraq's Disorder'. In: Rogan, E.L. and Shlaim, A., (eds.), The War for Palestine. Rewriting the History of 1948. Cambridge University Press, pp 125-150.

Tripp, Charles (2001) 'States, Elites and the 'Management of Change''. In: Hakimian, H. and Moshaver, Z., (eds.), The State and Global Change. The Political Economy of Transition in the Middle East and North Africa. Richmond: Curzon, pp 211-231.

Tripp, Charles (1997) 'Iraq'. The Cold War and the Middle East. OUP, pp 186-215.

Tripp, Charles (1997) 'An ''Islamic Economics''? Problems in the imagined reappropriation of economic life'. In: K, ed, (ed.), Politics and the Ends of Identity. Ashgate Publishing (Aldershot), pp 155-176.

Monographs and Working Papers

Tripp, Charles (2014) Battlefields of the Republic - the struggle for public space in Tunisia. London: LSE Middle East Centre.

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