Connections Episode 47
From COP27 to The World Cup
Mouin Rabbani Interviews Laleh Khalili
Monday 12 December 2022
12:00 PM EST | 18:00 CET
Join us on Monday, 12 December for a discussion about the recent COP27 environmental summit, World Cup controversies, and the murky world of consulting with Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani and Laleh Khalili. This episode of Connections will focus on the globalization of environmental degradation, labor, and repression.
Connections offers timely and informative interviews on current events and broader policy questions, as well as themes relevant to knowledge production. It combines journalism, analysis, and scholarship.
Guest
Laleh Khalili is a professor of international politics at Queen Mary University of London. Her most recent book is Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula (Verso 2020). She is currently working on a project on the everyday entanglements of hydrocarbons in our lives.
Host
Mouin Rabbani has published and commented widely on Palestinian affairs, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the contemporary Middle East. He was previously Senior Analyst Middle East and Special Advisor on Israel-Palestine with the International Crisis Group, and head of political affairs with the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria. He is Co-Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine.
Previous Episodes
Connections Podcast Episode 1: The Biden Administration and the Middle East with Noam Chomsky
Connections Podcast Episode 2: The Politics of Holy Cities with Mick Dumper and Maha Samman
Connections Podcast Episode 3: Apartheid Israel with Norman Finkelstein
Connections Podcast Episode 4: Israel-Palestine: A Turning Point? with Nathan Thrall
Connections Podcast Episode 5: Investigating Israel with Lori Allen
Connections Podcast Episode 6: The US Congress, Israel, and the Palestinians with Lara Friedman
Connections Podcast Episode 7: Palestine at the Crossroads with Hanan Ashrawi
Connections Podcast Episode 9: Lebanon in Crisis with Nadya Sbaiti
Connections Episode 10: Crisis in Tunisia with Houda Mzioudet
Connections Episode 11: A Planet in the Balance with Jeffrey D. Sachs
Connections Episode 12: Focus Afghanistan with Benon Sevan
Connections Episode 13: Asylum in the USA with Basileus Zeno
Connections Episode 14 - Digital Espionage: A Global Pandemic with Marwa Fatafta
Connections Episode 15: The Lasting Legacies of US Torture with Lisa Hajjar
Connections Episode 16: Whither Yemen? with Helen LackConnections Episode 17: A Decade of Upheaval with Nabih Bulos
Connections Episode 18 — Iran: Domestic and Foreign Politics with Ali Vaez
Connections Episode 22: Narrations of Palestine with Alison Glick and Nora Lester Murad
Connections Episode 23: The Global Far Right with Cas Mudde
Connections Episode 24: Crises in The Maghreb with Samia Errazzouki
Connections Episode 25: War Economies with Mark Taylor
Connections Episode 26: Libya in the Balance with Claudia Gazzini
Connections Episode 27: Israel's Sacred Terrorism with Remi Brulin
Connections Episode 28: Tunisia's New Autocracy with Mohammed Haddad
Connections Episode 29: Crisis in Afghanistan with Ali Latifi
Connections Episode 30: Yemen’s Endless War with Safa Al Ahmad
Connections Episode 31: Sudan Today with Khalid Mustafa Medani
Connections Episode 32: Protecting Cultural Heritage with Heghnar Watenpaugh
Connections Episode 33: The Struggle for Human Rights in the Middle East with Sarah Leah Whitson
Connections Episode 34: Palestinian Textbooks with Martin Konečný
Connections Episode 35: The Libya Intervention Revisited with Ian Martin
Connections Episode 36: The War in Ukraine with Nabih Bulos
Connections Episode 37: Shireen Abu Akleh with Dalia Hatuqa
Connections Episode 38: Tunisia’s Constitutional Referendum with Monica Marks
Connections Podcast Episode 39: Armenia Attacked with Eric Hacopian
Connections Episode 40: Uprising in Iran with Manijeh Moradian
Connections Episode 41: Class and Identity Politics in Egypt with Hesham Sallam
Connections Episode 42 - Palestine: The Right to Self-Determination with Francesca Albanese
Connections Episode 43: Another Israeli Election with Mairav Zonszein
Connections Episode 44: Another US Election with Rick Perlstein
Connections Episode 45: Inside the Legal Campaign Against US Torture with Lisa Hajjar
Connections Episode 46: Twitter Madness with Marwa Fatafta
