is an assistant professor of political science and Islamic studies at McGill University. He has published extensively on the political economy of Islamic fundamentalism and civil war in Sudan. He holds a doctorate in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. He has also worked as a researcher at the Brookings Institution, and served as a research consultant for a number of United Nations agencies in the Horn of Africa. In 2002, he conducted an evaluation of UN and non-governmental organizations' humanitarian relief efforts in Northern and Western Darfur, Sudan. His research interests include the relationship between economic globalization, political Islam and civil conflict in the Middle East and Africa, Islamic finance and state collapse.
Research areas: Africa
Khalid Mustafa Medani
19 October 2009