Laleh Khalili
Author of Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula
About the Author
Laleh Khalili is Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She is the author of Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration (2007) and coeditor of Policing and Prisons in the Middle East: Formations of show more Coercion (2010). show less
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- 1968
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Iran
USA - Country (for map)
- Iran
USA - Birthplace
- Iran
- Education
- University of Texas (BSc)
Columbia University (MIA, PhD) - Occupations
- International Politics Professor, Queen Mary University
Professor of Middle Eastern Politics, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
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This volume is the first to examine systematically practices of policing and incarceration in the modern Middle East, the emergence of modern policing and prisons and their continued predominance. It offers a useful lens through which the complexity of state power and the contours of popular contentious politics can be read.… (more)