Full Name
Laleh Khalili
Job Title
Professor of Gulf Studies
Company
University of Exeter
Speaker Bio
Laleh Khalili is the Al-Qasimi Professor of Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter, and the author or editor of seven books including most recently, Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula (Verso 2020); The Corporeal Life of Seafaring (Mack Books 2023) and Extractive Capitalism (Profile Books 2025).
