Khalid Medani

Khalid Medani is currently assistant professor of political science and Islamic Studies here at McGill University. Prior to his arrival at McGill, Dr. Medani taught at Oberlin College and Stanford University. Dr. Medani received a B.A. 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. He is currently completing a book manuscript that examines the political economy of Islamic and Ethnic Politics in Egypt, Sudan and Somalia. Dr. Medani 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 Mubarack, and an article on the failure of democratization in Sudan. Dr. Medani has also worked as a researcher at the Brookings Institution and at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). In August 2007 Dr. Medani was named a Carnegie Scholar on Islam, and was awarded a prestigious grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to continue to conduct his research on the comparative political economy of Islamic Fundamentalist and Militant Recruitment in Egypt, Sudan and Somalia.