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El-Khazen, M.Sc. Elia

Portrait Elia El-Khazen
Position at ABI:
E-mail:
elia.el.khazen [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de
Phone:
+49 (0)761 - 888 78-24
Areas of research:
logistics, social movements, transregional authoritarian practices, transregional energy infrastructure policies, renewable energy
Regional focus:
MENA region, Iraq, Jordan, the UAE, Lebanon, Syria
Professional experience:
since 2023
PhD candidate in the DFG Emmy Noether Junior Research Group: Renewable Energies, Renewed Authoritarianisms? The Political Economy of Solar Energy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Education:
2018-2019 MSc
Middle East Politics, SOAS, London (distinction)

Selected publications

El Khazen, E, Makki, S (2022, December). Lebanon’s Nightlife Industrial Complex: An Exercise in Surplus-Enjoyment. Woodbine (hard copy). https://autonomedia.org/product/reservoir/


El Khazen, E (2022, December). On the commodification of hope and the financialization of politics: A sober account of the Lebanese political scene. Al-Manshour. https://almanshour.org/2022/12/18/the-commodification-of-hope-a-sobering-account-of-the-leba nese-elections/

El Khazen, E (2022, April 20). Lebanon: a Country in Permanent Crisis. Left Voice, https://www.leftvoice.org/lebanon-a-country-in-permanent-crisis/

El Khazen, E (2021, September 19). Their nightmare not ours: Tear Gas as phantom with limbs of steel. Locust Review (hard copy). https://www.locustreview.com/locust-5

El Khazen, E. (2020, August 12). On Organizing. Bidayat Journal, https://www.bidayatmag.com/node/1134

El Khazen, E. (2020, July 6). Smash the Banks in Order to Nationalize Them. Spectre Journal, https://spectrejournal.com/smash-the-banks-in-order-to-nationalize-them/

El Khazen, E. (2019, December, 20). The Lebanese October revolution against sectarian realism and neoliberal authoritarianism. Historical Materialism, https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/interviews/lebanese-october-revolution-against-sectarian-realism-and-neoliberal-authoritarianism

El Khazen, E. (2019, May, 27). Uprising in Sudan: Interview with Sudanese Comrades. Historical Materialism, http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/blog/uprising-sudan-interview-with-sudanese-comrades

El Khazen, E. (2018, June 11). Lebanon: A Ruling Class in Perpetual Crisis. Salvage Quarterly, http://salvage.zone/online-exclusive/lebanon-a-ruling-class-in-perpetual-crisis/

El Khazen, E (2018, December 15). Beauty and the Yield: Cosmetic Surgery as Facet of Neoliberal Entrepreneurship in Lebanon, RLS website. https://www.rosalux-lb.org/index.php/en/publications-en/item/122-beauty-and-the-yield-cosmeti c-surgery-as-facet-of-neoliberal-entrepreneurship-in-lebanon