Authors

Khalid Medani is associate professor Political Science and Islamic Studies at McGill University. He has published widely 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. His most recent publications include an analysis of the politics of secession in Sudan, the politics of Islamic Welfare in Egypt under the former regime of Hosni Mubarak, and the failure of democratization in Sudan. Medani is a former Carnegie Scholar on Islam, and receipient of a prestigious grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York for his research on the comparative political economy of Islamic Fundamentalist and Militant Recruitment in Egypt, Sudan and Somalia. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.