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Khalid Mustafa Medani

Khalid Mustafa Medani, an editor of this magazine, is associate professor of political science at McGill University.

The Struggle for Sudan — A Sudanese woman chants slogans during a demonstration demanding a civilian body to lead the transition to democracy, outside the army headquarters in Khartoum on April 12, 2019. Ahsraf Shazly/AFP via Getty Images.

Primers

The Struggle for Sudan

An introduction to the basic dynamics of the political landscape in Sudan since the 2019 revolution.

Khalid Mustafa Medani • 21 min read

Black Markets in Sudan—An Interview with Khalid Mustafa Medani — The cover of Medani’s book.

MER Article

Black Markets in Sudan—An Interview with Khalid Mustafa Medani

[su_dropcap style="simple" size="4"]I[/su_dropcap]n September 2022, Khalid Mustafa Medani, a former contributor to Middle East Report, received the Best Book prize from the American Political Science Association’s Middle East and North African Politics section for his 2021 release, Black

Khalid Mustafa Medani, Noora Lori • 12 min read

MER Article

The Responsibilities of the Cartoonist

Khalid Albaih is a political cartoonist “from the two countries of Sudan,” in his words, who is now based in Qatar. His drawings appear at his Facebook page, entitled Khartoon! in a play on the name of the Sudanese capital. Katy Kalemkerian and Khalid Medani spoke with him in Montreal on November 9,

Katy Kalemkerian, Khalid Mustafa Medani • 22 min read

MER Article

"Open for Business"

The Republic of South Sudan is undergoing its most devastating round of violence since declaring its independence in July 2011. The fighting broke out in mid-December 2013, some five months after President Salva Kiir fired his vice president, Riek Machar, along with the entire cabinet. At a December

Khalid Mustafa Medani • 12 min read

Featured

Between Grievances and State Violence

On June 16, 2012, female students at the University of Khartoum mounted a demonstration that released a wave of protest on campuses and major towns across Sudan. The young women exited the university gates chanting “Freedom, freedom,” demanding the “liberation” of their campus from the grip of the N

Khalid Mustafa Medani • 20 min read

Current Analysis

Sudanese Echoes

In Egypt’s constitutional crisis today, there are echoes of the rise of the National Islamic Front (NIF) in Sudan.

Khalid Mustafa Medani • 4 min read

Current Analysis

Elections Are Key to Darfur Crisis

It has been quite a week. For the first time, the international community indicted a sitting president of a sovereign state. Omar al-Bashir of Sudan stands accused by the International Criminal Court in The Hague of “crimes against humanity and war crimes” committed in the course of the Khartoum reg

Khalid Mustafa Medani • 3 min read

Current Analysis

Wanted: Omar al-Bashir -- and Peace in Sudan

For the first time, the international community has indicted a sitting president of a sovereign state. Omar al-Bashir of Sudan stands accused by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague of “crimes against humanity and war crimes” committed in the course of the Khartoum regime’s brutal sup

Khalid Mustafa Medani • 12 min read

Current Analysis

Want to Fight Terrorism? Think Globally, Act Locally

Militant Islam is under global scrutiny for clues to conditions that foster its rise, and to strategies for reversing that growth. But the key is not in Islamic doctrine, US foreign policy or formal ties to various nations, as many analysts have asserted. It lies at the community level, with clan an

Khalid Mustafa Medani • 2 min read

Current Analysis

Somalia Airstrikes Are Not the Answer

On January 24, the US launched a second round of airstrikes in Somalia against alleged al-Qaeda terrorists believed to be responsible for the bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. Intended to eradicate these extremist elements from the Horn of Africa, the airstrikes instead exacerb

Khalid Mustafa Medani • 2 min read

Current Analysis

Black Monday

The sudden death of John Garang de Mabior, the long-time leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) recently named first vice president of Sudan, unleashed a torrent of anger and protest in Khartoum. Suspecting that the July 30 helicopter crash that killed Garang and 13 others was not

Khalid Mustafa Medani • 9 min read

MER Article

State Rebuilding in Reverse

In June 2003, L. Paul Bremer, head of the now dissolved Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), announced the broad outlines of the Bush administration’s plan to rebuild Iraq along strict free market principles. “The removal of Saddam Hussein,” Bremer helpfully explained, “offers Iraqis hope for a be

Khalid Mustafa Medani • 14 min read