Laleh Khalili is an Iranian American and Professor of International Politics at Queen Mary University of London. She was formerly a Professor of Middle Eastern Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.
She graduated from University of Texas and received her PhD from Columbia University. 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.
Books in order of publication:
Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration. Cambridge, UK; New York: 2007
Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies. Stanford University Press, USA; Palo Alto: 2012.
Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula. Verso Books, UK; London: 2020.
Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy – 2025
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