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From Saturday, Oct. 5 through Monday, Oct. 7, the Downtown and Macdonald Campuses will be open only to McGill students, employees and essential visitors. Many classes will be held online. Remote work required where possible. See Campus Public Safety website for details.


Du samedi 5 octobre au lundi 7 octobre, le campus du centre-ville et le campus Macdonald ne seront accessibles qu’aux étudiants et aux membres du personnel de l’Université McGill, ainsi qu’aux visiteurs essentiels. De nombreux cours auront lieu en ligne. Le personnel devra travailler à distance, si possible. Voir le site Web de la Direction de la protection et de la prévention pour plus de détails.

Khalid Medani

Academic title(s): 

Associate Professor

Khalid Medani
Contact Information
Address: 

855 Sherbrooke St. W.
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 2T7

Phone: 
514-398-4400 Ext 089509
Email address: 
khalid.medani [at] mcgill.ca
Office: 
Leacock 319
Degree(s): 

PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Research areas: 
Comparative Government and Politics
Areas of interest: 

African Politics, Islam and Politics, Informal Economies, Middle East Politics, Ethnic and Civil Conflict, Comparative Politics, Political Economy of Development

Professional activities: 

Current Book Project

Globalization, Informal Markets and Collective Action: The Development Islamic and Ethnic Politics in Egypt, Sudan and Somalia

Selected publications: 
  • “State Building in Reverse: The Neo-Liberal “Reconstruction” of Iraq. Middle East Report, Summer 2004.
  • “Financing Terrorism or Survival? Informal Finance, State Collapse and the US War on Terrorism.” Middle East Report, Summer 2002.
  • The Political Economy of an Islamist State: Sudan. Political Islam, eds. Joel Beinin and Joe Stork, eds. (University of California Press, 1997)
  • Identity in Sudan’s Foreign Policy (with Francis M. Deng) Africa in the New International Order, eds. Edmond J. Keller and Donald Rothchild (Lynn Reiner Press, 1996).
  • “Sudan’s Human and Political Crisis,” Current History, May, 1993.
  • Funding Fundamentalism: Sudan, Review of African Political Economy, September-October, 1991.
Conferences: 
  • “Informal Economies, Identities and Islamic Extremism,” Sociology Lecture Series, Yale University, March 31, 2005.
  • “The Political Economy of Religious Fundamentalism: A Comparative Perspective,’ Paper delivered at the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 3, 2004.
  • “Globalization and Islamic Militancy: Giving some context to the attacks of 9/11,” paper delivered at the 45th Annual International Studies Convention. “Hegemony and its Discontents,” Montreal, March 17-20, 2004.
  • “Informal Markets and the Changing Face of Political Islam: the View from Cairo,” paper delivered at the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, September 2-5, 2003.
  • “US Policy in Iraq: Prospects and Perils,” Paper delivered to the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISC), Stanford University, May 2003.
  • “Globalization, State Building and Collective Action: The Politic Economy of Remittance Inflows and Identity Politics in Northwest and Northeast Somalia,” Annual Conference of the Joint Berkeley-Stanford Conference on African Studies, April, 2001
Group: 
Associate Professor
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