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Laleh Khalili

  • Professor of Gulf Studies, University of Exeter
  • Queen Mary University of London, Professor of International Politics
London
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Laleh Khalili · Canton Kitty: Seafaring

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By Laleh Khalili
| London Review of Books Verified
In​ 2015, while I was researching a book on shipping, I travelled on the Corte Real from Malta to Jebel Ali. The other two passengers on board, sailing from Hamburg all the way to Tanjung Pelepas in Malaysia, were German septuagenarian widows who preferred travelling by freighter to the ‘false sociality’ of cruise ships.
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Matt Kennard + Laleh Khalili - The US Military & Descent into Barbarism

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By Matt Kennard, Laleh Khalili
| eventbrite.com
Overview Book launch for Matt Kennard's Irregullar Army. The author in conversation with Professor Laleh Khalili.
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Dr Freezelove

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By Laleh Khalili
| Portside
Dr Freezelove Published May 3, 2026 Polar War: Submarines, Spies and the Struggle for Power in a Melting Arctic by Kenneth R. Rosen. Profile, 302 pp., £22, January, 978 1 80522 912 4 Two years​ after the end of the Civil War, William Seward, the US secretary of state, negotiated the purchase of ‘Russian America’ – Alaska – for $7.2 million, equivalent to $165 million today.
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