Dr. Laleh Khalili is an Iranian American and a lecturer in Middle East Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies

School of Oriental and African Studies

The School of Oriental and African Studies is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the University of London...

 at the University of London

University of London

-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

. She received her PhD from Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

. Her main research areas are policing and incarceration, gender, nationalism, political and social movements, refugees and diasporas in the Middle East. Her commentary on Middle Eastern and Iranian affairs has been used in several newspapers including the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, the Financial Times ,and Agence France-Presse. Dr. Khalili writes regularly for Iranian.com

Iranian.com

Iranian.com, also known as The Iranian and The Iranian Times, is an online English language magazine.Founded in July 1995 by entrepreneur/journalist Jahanshah Javid, Iranian.com has the largest online following among Iranians residing in North America, with about 68,000 visitors per month-Awards...

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Book

• Heroes and martyrs of Palestine : the politics of national commemoration. Cambridge, UK ; New York :, 2007.

Scholarly Articles

• "‘Standing with My Brother’:

Hizbullah, Palestinians, and the
Limits of Solidarity'" (2007). Comparative Studies in Society and History 49(2):276–303.

• "Places of Memory and Mourning: Palestinian Commemoration in the Refugee Camps of Lebanon".

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East - Volume 25, Number 1, 2005, pp. 30–45