KAMIL MAHDI

30 January 2007
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Senior Lecturer in the Economics of the Middle East, University of Exeter
k.a.mahdi [at] exeter.ac.uk

 
 

Kamil Mahdi is senior lecturer in Middle East economics at the University of Exeter and a Fellow of the Transnational Institute. He 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; the political economy of oil-exporting countries; Middle East agriculture and the socio-economics of agrarian change. His publications include Yemen into the Twenty-First Century (eds, with Anna Wuerth and Helen Lackner, Ithaca Press, 2007); Iraq’s Economic Predicament (ed, Ithaca Press, 2005); Water in the Arabian Peninsula (ed, Ithaca Press, 2001) and State and Agriculture in Iraq (Ithaca Press, 2000). He is a former Director of the Centre for Arab Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter and has previously taught economics at Sheffield University and at Yarmouk University in Jordan. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Birmingham, 1982.

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Areas of interest

 

Economy and politics of Iraq, political economy of the oil-exporting countries, Middle East agriculture

 

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

 
 

Books


 

Yemen into the Twenty First Century: Continuity and Change, (Edited with Anna Wuerth and Helen Lackner) Ithaca Press. (forthcoming 2007).

Iraq's Economic Predicament, (Editor), Ithaca Press, 2002

State and Agriculture in Iraq: Modern Development, Stagnation and the Impact of Oil, Ithaca (January 2001), ISBN: 0863722792

Water in the Arabian Peninsula: Problems and Policies, (editor) Ithaca Press, 2001


 
 

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