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Laleh Khalili
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Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her.

Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring.

Find me at l.khalili@exeter.ac.uk

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Laleh Khalili is an Iranian American Professor of Gulf Studies at University of Exeter.

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · Oct 22
I have organised an amazing roster of *virtual* presentations for the Centre for Gulf Studies at Exeter. Check out these incredible superstars, and register for the events (Tuesdays 17-18.30 London time) here: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...
https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/centres/gulf/events/

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.myatproto.social · 16d
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... You have to go 13 mini paras before you get to the name, and even then, it's just "Ahmed". Perhaps if the name was more Anglo-Saxon, the name would be in full and higher up? Lacklustre on your paper's part.
Bystander tackles and wrestles gun from alleged gunman during Bondi beach mass shooting
Video shows the man rushing one of the alleged gunmen who shot dozens of people on Sunday evening in Australia
www.theguardian.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 16d
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.

The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
A wrong Grok post making up a white guy who stopped the Australian mass shooting. BBC 'Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed Emily Atkinson Sun, December 14, 2025 at 1:06 p.m. CST 2 min read A "hero" bystander who was filmed wrestling a gun from one of the Bondi Beach attackers has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed. Video verified by the BBC showed Mr Ahmed run at the gunman and seize his weapon, before turning the gun round on him, forcing his retreat. Mr Ahmed, a fruit shop owner and father of two, remains in hospital, where he has undergone surgery for bullet wounds to his arm and hand, his family told 7News Australia.

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 16d
The US is a dyatopia
premthakker.bsky.social Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16d
"At least two of the Brown University students who were on campus when a deadly shooting unfolded there on Saturday have survived school shootings before."
2 Students at Brown Witnessed School Shootings as Children
www.nytimes.com

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16d
"At least two of the Brown University students who were on campus when a deadly shooting unfolded there on Saturday have survived school shootings before."
2 Students at Brown Witnessed School Shootings as Children
www.nytimes.com

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David Huyssen @davidhuyssen.bsky.social · 16d
Only 12 percent of Trustees have "professional experience" in higher ed, yet they wield an existential power over universities.

Some, such as those at TNS, have been using their power to feather each others' nests at faculty and student expense.
www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
Report: How to Prevent University Trustee Overreach
A new report argues the while increasing politicization of university governing boards has contributed to the erosion of academic freedom in recent years, boards also have the potential to adopt frame...
www.insidehighered.com

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 16d
Netanyahu assumed the hero was Jewish so he said his bravery was the “pinnacle of Jewish heroism.”

I look forward to him talking about Muslim heroism, but he’s too busy committing a genocide against a largely Muslim population

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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 16d
Hero. ❤️

'43-year-old father of two, Ahmed el Ahmed, wrestled a rifle off one of the Bondi Beach gunmen. Ahmed is from Sydney’s Sutherland Shire and owns a fruit business. He has no known experience with guns and was visiting Bondi when he saw the shooting unfolding.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17d
Fact-check: true

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 17d
This is basically EVERY university in the Anglophone world.
kmunro-econ.bsky.social Kirstin Munro @kmunro-econ.bsky.social · 24d
They claim financial exigency, but then turn down $4 million pledges to keep the PhD programs open and disregard financial analyses that point to the real problem—bad real estate deals, spending on consultants, and their own salaries 2/2

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 18d
The goal of the Trump administration is an ethnic cleansing that is actively being enacted, and that promises to destroy the diversity & freedoms that were ever the strength of this imperfect nation.

My latest in @theguardian.com.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The ethnic cleansing of the US will destroy it | Heba Gowayed
Trump’s racist remarks on Ilhan Omar and Somali immigrants reveals his vision for the US as a white Christian nation
www.theguardian.com

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 18d
The very same commentators that spent years condemning anti-semitism in UK politics as a major national scandal, have suddenly lost interest now that it implicates one of their own

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-farage...
The Farage Apologists
The same commentators that spent years condemning anti-semitism in UK politics as a major national scandal, have suddenly lost interest now that it implicates one of their own
www.adambienkov.co.uk

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18d

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18d
I'm searching Getty Images and found some photos credited to the Boston Herald that redact the faces of ICE/federal agents. They don't redact the face of the guy they're arresting.

I'm curious about the ethics of doing this. I don't think I've ever seen this on Getty before.
After moving to a secure location, the suspect is put in a different set of restraints for transportation as ICE agents make arrests. (Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald)

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 18d
this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18d
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com

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Eric Maugendre about emissions @data.yt · 18d
Extractive Capitalism, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social argues, is the system by which commodities (oil, ore, bauxite, coal, sand) are excavated, transported, processed and sold at markups that funnel profits to a narrow investor class while externalising costs on to workers, communities & the environment.
Laleh Khalili’s Extractive Capitalism: A beautiful map of the entangled global economy
The University of Exeter academic's book exposes how essential commodities, data and labour exploitation fuel wealth that is increasingly concentrated in the hands of an elite
www.middleeasteye.net

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18d
Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.
Steve Bannon laughing next to Noam Comsky in a photo release by the Epstein estate

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 19d
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an ordinary man, has defeated the great might of the US Government
merovingians.bsky.social the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 19d
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free. every bit of cruelty, boasting, slander, and persecution was for absolutely fucking nothing.

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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 24d
From wage theft on container ships to geopolitical strife, global shipping props up inequality worldwide. Yet, in the face of it all, this dialogue argues that dockworkers hold immense, untapped power to disrupt this machinery and rewrite the rules.

With @lalehkhalili.bsky.social

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The Political Economy of Global Shipping with Laleh Khalili by Return to Bandung
In this episode, I’m joined by Laleh Khalili, Professor of Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter and author of Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula (Verso,…
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Kirstin Munro @kmunro-econ.bsky.social · 24d
They claim financial exigency, but then turn down $4 million pledges to keep the PhD programs open and disregard financial analyses that point to the real problem—bad real estate deals, spending on consultants, and their own salaries 2/2

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 26d
Save 30% on "The City of Our Dreaming," which collects the third #AlchemyLectures with contributions from @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, @biidaasamose.bsky.social,
@hystericalblkns.bsky.social, V. Mitch McEwen, & Gabriela Leandro Pereira.
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Cover of The City of Our Dreaming by Laleh Khalili, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. With an introduction by Christina Sharpe. The title and authors are in a black capsule shape that is slightly offset in the middle, surrounded by a red background. On the left side the words The Alchemy Lecture appear vertically.

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 28d
Excited about Mira al Hussein’s presentation at our virtual seminar series next week. "Political Naturalisation and the Conscription of Transit Citizens in the UAE” on Tuesday 9 December, 17:00-18.30 London time. For details and to register see: www.exeter.ac.uk/events/detai...
Mira Al Hussein - Political Naturalisation and the Conscription of Transit Citizens in the UAE
www.exeter.ac.uk

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Drewery Dyke @drewerydyke.bsky.social · 29d
In July 2012, #UAE government arbitrarily imprisoned lawyer Dr Mohamed al-Roken. In July 2013 UAE sentenced him to 10 yrs' imprisonment. UAE found new charges; will only release him after they break him. UAE cruelty.
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Image of UN Special Rappoerteur on Human Rights Defenders, reading from her address to the UN General Assembly, citing UAE lawyer, Dr Mohamed al-Roken, unfairly imprisoned by the UAE in 2012.

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · Nov 20
Christian Henderson (Leiden) will be speaking at our next CGS Seminar Series (25 November, 17:00-18:30 London time) on Monarchies of Extraction: The Gulf states in the global food system. To see more details and register, please go to www.exeter.ac.uk/events/detai...
Christian Henderson - Monarchies of Extraction: The Gulf states in the global food system
www.exeter.ac.uk

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.cat · Nov 12
51/ The EHRC Chief Executive, John Kirkpatrick, gave written evidence that it took less than a day to draft the guidance, and just over 24 hours in total to decide to publish it.

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Anthony Barnett @anthonybarnett.bsky.social · Nov 12
The great Geoffrey Bindman has died. Rest in Strength. www.google.com/url?q=https:...
Geoffrey Bindman and his pursuit of justice for all
From calling for Tony Blair to be tried to defending Gaza, Geoffrey always fought for everyone to have the rights they deserved
www.google.com

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dylan saba @shaabiranks.bsky.social · Nov 11
EPISODE 3: BLACK AUGUST, BLACK SEPTEMBER

Orisanmi Burton joins us to discuss the legacy of Assata Shakur, the prison as a form of warfare, and transnational solidarity between Black and Palestinian revolutionary struggles.

open.substack.com/pub/turbulen...
Episode 3: Black August, Black September
With Orisanmi Burton
open.substack.com

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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · Nov 10
Podcast (from @palfest.bsky.social) featuring @lalehkhalili.bsky.social interviewing Adam Hanieh, @rafeefz.bsky.social and me ou our @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet Resisting Erasure.

Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.

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Laleh Khalili talks to Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox and Rafeef Ziadeh about Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine
In the third instalment of The PalFest Podcast we are excited to bring you Laleh Khalili, the esteemed professor and writer in conversation with the authors of Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism ...
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dylan saba @shaabiranks.bsky.social · Nov 6
EPISODE 2: THE PALESTINE-MEXICO BORDER

Alexander Aviña joins us to discuss Israel’s Cold War involvement in Latin America, the invention of “narcoterrorism,” and the potential for solidarity between the pro-Palestine and anti-ICE movements.

turbulencepod.substack.com/p/episode-2-...
Episode 2: The Palestine-Mexico Border
With Alexander Aviña
turbulencepod.substack.com

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dylan saba @shaabiranks.bsky.social · Nov 6
EPISODE 1: YEMEN’S SOLIDARITY BLOCKADE

@lalehkhalili.bsky.social joins us to discuss Ansarallah’s naval blockade in support of Palestine, the politics and history of the commodities trade in the Arabian Peninsula, and "counter-logistical" strategies of resistance.
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Episode 1: Yemen's Solidarity Blockade
With Laleh Khalili
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