OPENING LECTURE & PANEL DISCUSSION

With Adam Hanieh

Adam Hanieh is Professor of Political Economy and Global Development at the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS), University of Exeter, and a Research Fellow at the Transnational Institute (TNI). As a leading scholar of Middle East political economy, Hanieh’s research has particularly focused on the dynamics of class and state formation in the six oil-rich Gulf Arab monarchies, and the profound impact that Gulf capitalism has had on socio-economic and political developments in the wider Middle East. In addition to his work on the Gulf, Hanieh has written extensively on Palestine, and was a founding member of the Centre for Palestine Studies at SOAS, University of London. His most recent book is Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market (Verso Books, 2024).

Adam Hanieh will be in conversation with Amina Adebisi Odofin, Joseph Daher and Omar Jabary Salamanca (tbc)

This keynote is organised in collaboration with EYE ON PALESTINE and MENARG.