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ABOUT
Craig Larkin is a lecturer in Comparative Politics of the Middle East at the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies (IMES), King’s College London. He is the deputy Director of the Centre for Study of Divided Societies and head of the Lebanon and Syria Research Group at King’s. He was previously a research fellow at Exeter Politics department, working on an ESRC funded project ‘Conflict in Cities and the Contested State’ (2008-2012). His first monograph, Memory and Conflict in Lebanon: Remembering and Forgetting the Past was published by Routledge in January 2012. This research emerged from four years spent in the Middle East (2001-2004), studying Arabic at Damascus University while also assisting in community development projects in Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq. His second co-authored book, The Struggle for Jerusalem’s Holy Places was published by Routledge in November 2013. He is currently working on a co-edited book, The Alawis of Syria: War, Faith and Politics in the Levant, to be published by Hurst and Oxford University Press in April 2015.
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
Conflict Resolution
Middle East/Near East Studies
Urban Studies
Comparative
Ethnography
Identity/Representation
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Lebanon
Palestine
Syria
Specialties
Urban Violence And Divided Societies;
Memory Stud
Languages
English (native)
Arabic (advanced)
French (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 2009
| Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies
| University of Exeter
LLM
| 1999
| Law
| Queen's University Belfast
LL.B.
| 1998
| Law and Politics
| Queen's University Belfast
Abstracts
Jabal Mohsen in War and Pieces: the Urban Geopolitics of Lebanon’s Alawi Enclave
An Islamic Movement inside the Israeli State: secularising religious resistance?
