Laleh Khalili

Bio:

Laleh Khalili is lecturer in Middle East politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London.

Articles by this Author


On Torture	BOOKS REVIEWED: Darius Rejali, Torture and Democracy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007). Marnia Lazreg, Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University...	MER249
Everyday Orientalism	Bernard Rougier, Everyday Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam Among Palestinians in Lebanon (translated by Pascale Ghazaleh) (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007).	MER244
A Landscape of Uncertainty	The events following the assassination of Rafiq al-Hariri and Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon have not discernibly changed the situation of Palestinians in Lebanon. While a surprising government edict has made it easier for Palestinians to get...	MER236
The New (and Old) Classics of Counterinsurgency	Two weapons today threaten freedom in our world. One -- the 100-megaton hydrogen bomb -- requires vast resources of technology, effort and money. It is an ultimate weapon of civilized and scientific man. The other -- a nail and a piece of...	MER255