Adam Hanieh

Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at SOAS, University of London. His most recent book is Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East (Cambridge University, 2018). Also author of Lineages of Revolt: Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East.

Articles by this author (11)

A Marxist Guide to Understanding the Gulf States’ Political Economy
A Brief History of ISIS
Laundering Carbon—The Gulf’s ‘New Scramble for Africa’
One question: Class struggle today
Revolutions are not over
Money, Markets, and Monarchies
The revolution continues
This is a Global Pandemic – Let’s Treat it as Such
Fundamental rifts: power, wealth and inequality in the Arab world
The Qatar Crisis

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