Laleh Khalili

Dr. Laleh Khalili is an Iranian American and a lecturer in Middle East Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She received her PhD from Columbia University. Her main research areas are policing and incarceration, gender, nationalism, political and social movements, refugees and diasporas in the Middle East. [http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff36189.html School of Oriental and African Studies University of London] Her commentary on Middle Eastern and Iranian affairs has been used in several newspapers including the Washington Post [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/30/AR2007033002045.html] , the San Francisco Chronicle ["Travel Magazine puts Berkeley Publisher on Literary Map", Rona Marech. San Francisco Chronicle August 25,2000] , the Chicago Tribune, the Financial Times ,and Agence France-Presse. Dr. Khalili writes regularly for [http://www.iranian.com/main/ iranian.com] .

Book

*"Heroes and martyrs of Palestine : the politics of national commemoration". Cambridge, UK ; New York : [http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521865128&ss=fro Cambridge University Press] , 2007.

Scholarly Articles

*"‘Standing with My Brother’:Hizbullah, Palestinians, and theLimits of Solidarity'" (2007). "Comparative Studies in Society and History" 49(2):276–303. [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=978148 Cambridge Journals]
*"Places of Memory and Mourning: Palestinian Commemoration in the Refugee Camps of Lebanon"."Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East" [http://cssaame.dukejournals.org/ Duke University Press] - Volume 25, Number 1, 2005, pp. 30-45

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