Presented by Center for Comparative Muslim Studies, SFU School of Communications, SFU School of International Studies, SFU Institute for the Humanities, SFU Department of History, UBC Middle East Studies, SFU's David Lam Centre, and the University of Victoria MEICON Working Group

Militias, Militants and the Logic of Political Violence: Understanding the War Against Sudan

Keynote Lecture for MEICON Conference | All Welcome

March 22 | Wosk Concourse (WCC 05 - 30 ICBC Concourse)
 5:30-7:30: Keynote lecture by Dr. Khalid Medani
7:30 - 9:00: Welcome Reception

 The reception will have light refreshments starting at 7:30 (in time for iftar!)

Join us for Dr. Khalid Medani’s public lecture for the annual MEICON Conference, “Militias, Militants and the Logic of Political Violence: Understanding the War Against Sudan.” The event will be followed by a reception with light refreshments starting at 7:30 (in time for iftar!). The event will be held in the Wosk Concourse (WCC 05 - 30 ICBC Concourse). Join us on the next day, March 23, for MEICON’s student presentations. See the event program’s full details here.

Speaker

Dr. Khalid Mustafa Medani is Associate Professor of Political Science and Islamic Studies where he is also the Director of the Institute of Islamic Studies and Chair of the African Studies Program at McGill. He has also taught at Oberlin College and Stanford University. Dr. Medani received a B.A. with Honors in Development Studies from Brown University, an M.A. in Development Studies from the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on globalization, and the political economy of Islamist and Ethnic Politics in Africa and the Middle East with a special focus on Sudan, Egypt, and Somalia. Dr. Medani is the author of Black Markets and Militants: Informal Networks in the Middle East and Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2021) which received an award from the American Political Science Association for the Best Book in the Field of Middle East and North Africa Politics by a Senior Scholar in 2022. He is presently working on a manuscript on the politics of protest with a focus on the causes and consequences of Sudan’s 2018 popular uprising for the prospects for democratization in the country. In addition, he has published on the roots of youth militant recruitment, the debate over terrorist finance, and civil conflict in the Horn of Africa with a special focus on the armed conflicts in Sudan and Somalia. His work has appeared in Political Science and Politics (PS), the Journal of Democracy, the Journal of North African Studies, Current History, Middle East Report, Review of African Political Economy, Arab Studies Quarterly, and the UCLA Journal of Islamic Law. Dr. Medani is a previous recipient of a Carnegie Scholar on Islam award from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.