Laleh Khalili (Persian: لاله خلیلی) is an Iranian American and Professor of Gulf Studies at University of Exeter.
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.
[1] Her commentary on Middle Eastern and Iranian affairs has been used in several newspapers, including The Washington Post,[2] the San Francisco Chronicle,[3] the Chicago Tribune, the Financial Times, and Agence France-Presse.
[4] She was part of the anti-racist coalition that reviewed an article by Kamel Daoud on violence against women in Cologne.
[6] Khalili gave the Royal Geographical Society's 2024 Antipode lecture, entitled "Where is Palestine?