Craig Larkin

Dr Craig Larkin is a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics of the Middle East at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. Craig holds a PhD in Middle East Studies from the University of Exeter (Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, 2009), an MA in Criminology and Criminal Justice (LLM, 1999) and a BA(Hons) in Law and Politics (LLB, 1998) from Queen’s University Belfast. He also studied Arabic at Damascus University (2002-2004) and worked in community development projects in Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq. He is author of 'Memory and Conflict in Lebanon: remembering and forgetting the past' (Routledge: London and NY, 2012); co-author of 'The Struggle for Jerusalem’s Holy Places' (Routledge: London and NY, 2013) and co-editor of 'The Alawis of Syria: War, Faith and Politics in the Levant' with Michael Kerr (Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2015).