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A short op-ed on the Ever Given blockage of the Suez Canal
So on 23 March a massive 400-metre long ship, the Ever Given, blocked the Suez Canal. I wrote a piece for the Washington Post Monkey Cage blog about the event. Big ships were created to avoid relying...
View ArticleTalking to Democracy Now about Ever Given
It was thrilling to be prepped to talk to Amy Goodman on DemocracyNow about Ever Given. Here is the interview video and transcript:...
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Interview with the Jacobin about the Suez Canal
I can talk about the Suez Canal forever — and here I did! The Suez Canal Is a Lifeline for Global Capitalism AN INTERVIEW WITHLALEH KHALILI The Suez Canal blockage inspired a thousand memes, but its...
View ArticleA World to Win Podcast with Grace Blakeley
30 March 2021 30. A Marine History of Capitalism: An Interview with Laleh Khalili Before the container ship crisis in the Suez Canal, Grace spoke with Laleh Khalili, Professor of International...
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This Machine Kills Podcast
7 April 2021 https://soundcloud.com/thismachinekillspod/58-suez-canal-imperialist-infrastructure-ft-laleh-khalili Okay, so the big boat is no longer blocking the Suez Canal. But that doesn’t mean we...
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LRB Piece on Commodity Traders
I reviewed Javier Blas and Jack Farchy’s fabulous book on Commodity Traders: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n18/laleh-khalili/how-to-get-rich Extract: When ghana’s first president, Kwame...
View ArticleNorth Sea Interviews
Spoke to lovely lefties in Denmark and the Netherlands: Laleh Khalili: Sandheden om vor tids kapitalisme udstilles på verdenshaveneLangsomme samtaler med Rune Lykkeberg Professor i international...
View ArticleBattlefield to Boardroom
I wrote about the business managerial pretensions of former special operators for the LRB: https://lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n04/laleh-khalili/stupid-questions And then had a chat with Thomas Jones on...
View ArticlePodcasts and other media
Over the course of the last year, I have had such immense fun doing a bunch of different podcasts and other interviews and presentations. Below is a list with links: The fabulous Ottoman History...
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In the last year I also wrote 3 pieces for the LRB: “We Blitzed It: Inhabiting the Oil World” on the everyday entanglements of oil “In Sharm-El-Sheikh” on COP27 and one of my favourites, “In Clover:...
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