Helen Lackner
Writer and academic
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Helen Lackner is a writer, resident in the UK, academic and researcher mostly known for her work on the Middle East and Yemen in particular.[1]
She is the author among other books of Yemen in Crisis, which won the Grand Prix of Literary Associations 2018, Research Category.,[2][3]
Biography
Helen Lackner who is often introduced as an independent investigator,[4] is currently a Research Associate at the London Middle East Institute SOAS.[5] She has been researching on Yemen since the 1970s, and lived there in various parts of the country for more than 15 years.
Publications
- Why Yemen Matters. A Society in Transition. (Saqi, 2014)
- Yemen’s Peaceful Transition from Autocracy: could it have succeeded? (International IDEA 2016)
- Understanding the Yemeni Crisis: the transformation of tribal roles in recent decades (Durham, Luce Fellowship Paper 17, 2016)
- Yemen in Crisis: autocracy, neo-liberalism and the disintegration of a state (Saqi, 2017)
Awards and honours
- Grand Prix of Literary Associations 2018, Research Category, for Yemen in Crisis[6]
External links
- Saqi Books Archived 2019-05-18 at the Wayback Machine
- University of London Archived 2019-05-09 at the Wayback Machine