I started my research in anthropology around the time the Arab revolutions began. I was then researching alternative politics and decolonial thought and practices. Something radically new and different seemed to be happening in Syria with the emergence of new f..
Charlotte Al-Khalili
Charlotte Al-Khalili is a Leverhulme Early Career fellow in anthropology at the University of Sussex. Her work focuses on revolutionary politics, subjectivities, and religious temporalities and practices in Syria, Turkey, and Lebanon. Her research mainly explores the effects of the 2011 revolution and its aftermaths on displaced Syrians’ lifeworlds and examines Syrians’ evolving understandings, imagination, and conceptualizations of revolution and displacement. Her newest research project explores the traces of mass political violence through the study of the material, immaterial, corporal, and linguistic remains in Beirut. She is author of Waiting for the Revolution to End (UCL Press, 2023) and co-editor of Revolution Beyond the Event (UCL, 2023).