Kamil Mahdi

Kamil Mahdi

Senior Lecturer in the Economics of the Middle East, University of Exeter

Kamil Mahdi is an experienced analyst of Middle Eastern politics and economics, in particular the political economy of oil-exporting countries. Mahdi is secretary of the International Association of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, researching Iraq's economy, politics and modern history including the politics and economics of sanctions, conflict and occupation. His other interests include economic policy in Arab countries; Middle East agriculture and the socio-economics of agrarian change. Mahdi is currently an Honorary Visiting Senior Fellow at the Middle East Centre of the London School of Economics. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Birmingham, 1982.

Work area:

Peace & Security

Areas of expertise:

Economic Policy in Arab Countries; Iraq; the Political Economy of Oil-Exporting Countries; Middle East Agriculture and the Socio-Economics of Agrarian Change.

Media experience:

Kamil Mahdi has published in The Guardian, Red Pepper and the Socialist Review.

Contact

Email: k.a.mahdi [at] exeter.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1392 264029

English; Arabic

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Recent content by Kamil Mahdi

Understanding the Arab Spring

June 2011
Democratisation of Europe:
Middle East scholars join TNI fellows in a unique and fascinating discussion of the context of the democracy uprisings in the Middle East and the way it may shape the region for future generations.

How has military intervention in Libya shaped the Arab Spring?

April 2011
A continuing war in Libya tarnishes the Arab revolutionary uprising, because it has subverted a democratic revolution and become a war of intervention. Two of TNI's fellows and experts on the Middle East debate the underlying causes and consequences of the Libya military intervention.

Iraq: The Invisible War

November 2010
The US continues to paint a rosy picture of progress in Iraq but the reality is one of poverty, violence, torture and political corruption.

Get all US forces and mercenaries out of Iraq

November 2010
War and Sanctions continue to be used to manipulate and control Iraq. Joy Gordon's recent book on the sanctions and US policy shows them being used by the US and Britain, not as an alternative to war as many in the international community may have intended, but as a means of softening in preparation for war.

What the Wikileaks leaks don't reveal

October 2010
The Wikileaks revelations demonstrate the great extent to which Iraqi loss of life and US-British cruelty has been under-reported, but what we know is only the tip of the iceberg.

No law for oil

August 2007

Iraq’s Oil Law: Parsing the Fine Print

July 2007

Blood, Sweat and Oil

July 2007

Iraqis will never accept this sellout to the oil corporations

January 2007

Iraq and Ruin

December 2006