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ISSUE 6.1

Understanding Anti-Government Sentiment & Protests in Sudan

Khalid Medani

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Interviewed by Shahram Aghamir
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Nearly three decades after Omar Al Bashir came to power, the Sudanese regime is facing a formidable challenge posed
by a fresh wave of unrest. Who are the protestors? What are their demands? What role do the civil society groups play in these protests? What has been the regime’s response? And how did the economic crisis begin?

Guests

Khalid Medani
Khalid Medani

Khalid Medani is associate professor of political science and Islamic Studies at McGill University. 

Khalid Mustafa Medani is associate professor of political science and Islamic Studies at McGill University. Prior to his arrival at McGill, Dr. Medani has taught at Oberlin College and Stanford University. Dr. Medani received a B.A. in Development Studies from Brown University, an M.A. in Arab 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. Medani has published on the on the roots of civil conflict and the funding of the Islamic movement in Sudan, the question of informal finance and terrorism in Somalia, the obstacles to state building in Iraq, and the role of informal networks in the rise of Islamic militancy. 

 
In 2007, Medani was named a Carnegie Scholar on Islam, and was awarded a prestigious grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. 
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