Organizing Institution: Cornell University
Contact Name: Ashley Stockstill
Contact email: [email protected]
Start Date: October 19, 2022 (4:45pm)
End Date: October 19, 2022 (6:15pm)
Website: https://events.cornell.edu/event/khalid_medani_icm_lecture
Goldwin Smith Hall – Ithaca – New York – United States
A lecture by Khalid Medani, title, and abstract forthcoming.
Part of the Institute for Comparative Modernities’ Fall 2o22 events series
Khalid Medani is an associate professor of political science and Islamic Studies and Chair of the African Studies Program at McGill University. He received a B.A. from Brown University, an M.A. from Georgetown University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent book, Black Markets, and Militants: Informal Networks in the Middle East and Africa (Cambridge UP, 2021) examines the relationship among economic globalization, informal financial, housing and labour markets, and the emergence and evolution of Islamist and ethnic politics in Sudan, Egypt, and Somalia.