"Profound and compelling … A book that I couldn’t put down." Adam Hanieh, author of Crude Capitalism
"A brilliant explainer of how the world works." Simon Kuper, Financial Times columnist and author of Impossible City
About the Author
Laleh Khalili teaches at the University of Exeter. Her books include Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula, Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration and The Corporeal Life of Seafaring.
An Iranian American, she received a BS in chemical engineering from the University of Texas and a PhD in political science from Columbia University. She was previously a Professor of Middle Eastern Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and a Professor of International Politics at Queen Mary University, London. An internationally-renowned expert on the oil industry, global trade and geopolitics in the Gulf region with over 43,000 Twitter followers, Professor Khalili has worked as a consultant and an engineer and has written widely on globalization, capital and neocolonialism. She has written for the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Financial Times and Agence France-Presse and contributes regularly to London Review of Books.
