Author Archives: Laleh Khalili

About Laleh Khalili

is professor of Middle East politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. She has authored Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration (Cambridge, 2007) and Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies (Stanford, 2013) and is co-editor, with Jillian Schwedler, of Policing and Prisons in the Middle East: Formations of Coercion (Hurst/Oxford, 2008). Her Time in the Shadows was the winner of the Susan Strange Best Book Prize of the British International Studies Association and the 2014 best book award of the International Political Sociology section of the ISA.

Scholar, Pope, Soldier, Spy

December 16, 2014 by Laleh Khalili

No comments

Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present Max Boot, New York: Liveright, 2013. xxiv + 784 pp. All In: The Education of General David Petraeus Paula Broadwell with Vernon Loeb, New York: Penguin, 2012. xxiv + 394 pp. The Fourth Star: Four Generals and Their Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army David Cloud and Greg Jaffe, New York: Three Rivers Press, 2009. 330 pp. The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the Continue reading → Continue reading →

Our long-awaited issue of Humanity journal is out! Its special dossier, Iran under Sanctions, examines the myriad and devastating impacts of international sanctions on society, culture, and politics. The issue includes an essay on the legal case Herero and Nama v. The Federal Republic of Germany to theorize reparations for German colonialism and slavery as they became linked with the aftermath of the Shoah. It also includes essays on T.H. Marshall and the right of access to justice; visual representations of Armenian genocide survivors; and, the concept of radical friendship in relation to the Farmers’ Protests in India.

View entire issue >

Humanity Follow

An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development

Retweet on Twitter Humanity Retweeted

Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup ·

6 Jul

📘'Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights and Decolonial Ethics' is now available for pre-order!

❕Grab your copy and save 30% OFF using the code NEW30 at checkout : https://edin.ac/3JIcRne

@HumanityJ

Reply on Twitter 1676934030233673728 Retweet on Twitter 1676934030233673728 3 Like on Twitter 1676934030233673728 4 Twitter 1676934030233673728

Humanity @humanityj ·

11 Aug

Human Rights, Revolutionary Humanitarianism, and African Liberation in 1970, from Meredith Terretta @MTerretta https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/902635