Revolution Beyond the Event

Charlotte Al-Khalili (Editor)

Charlotte Al-Khalili is a Leverhulme Early Career fellow in anthropology at the University of Sussex. Her work focuses on revolutionary politics and subjectivities and religious temporalities and practices in Syria and Turkey. Her research explores the effects of the 2011 revolution and its aftermaths on displaced Syrians’ lifeworlds and examines Syrians’ evolving understandings, imagination and conceptualizations of revolution and displacement. She is the co-editor of the Revolution Beyond the Event (UCL, 2023).

Narges Ansari (Editor)

Narges Ansari is a social anthropologist whose doctoral thesis, funded by ERC studentship, considers conceptions of agency and subjectivity within Shi’a rituals of mediation in the revolutionary and post-revolutionary context of Iran (UCL Anthropology 2022). She is the 2022 recipient of British Society of Middle Eastern Studies Early Career Development Prize.

Myriam Lamrani (Editor)

Myriam Lamrani is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at Harvard University and at Panteion University. She currently researches devotional and political imagery in Greece and Mexico. She was awarded the J.B. Donne Essay Prize on the Anthropology of Art (2019) of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Her work was published by the American Ethnologist (2022).

Kaya Uzel (Editor)

Kaya Uzel is a PhD-candidate in anthropology at UCL whose research into the aftermath of Burkina Faso’s 1983 revolution under Thomas Sankara has been funded by an interdisciplinary ESRC/AHRC studentship. Kaya has been teaching in the Anthropology departments at UCL and Goldsmiths College, University of London, since 2018.