The paradoxes of Sudanese politics
The recent tragic eruption of unprecedented levels of violence in the Sudanese capital Khartoum has highlighted a problem that had plagued modern Sudan from August 1955 (four months before independence). However, it also highlighted some of its paradoxes. Even during the most violent civil wars, Khartoum has been a haven for those fleeing the conflict.
Abdelwahab El-Affendi, President and Provost of the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, is discussing these paradoxes of Sudanese politics.
Between 2017 and 2020 he was Dean at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Institute, and Head of the Politics and IR Program between 2015 and 2017.
His main fields of research are: democracy and Islam, Islamic thought, Muslim Intellectuals, as well as Sudanese and Middle Eastern Politics, among others.
In 1998, he founded the Democracy and Islam Program at the University of Westminster, which he coordinated until 2015. El-Affendi was visiting fellow/professor at the Christian Michelsen Institute (Bergen, Norway, 1995 and 2003), and the Universities of Northwestern (Chicago, 2002), Oxford (1990), Cambridge (2010-2012), and the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (Malaysia, 2008). He has delivered speeches and lectures at most major universities in the US, UK and a number of universities in Asia, Africa and South America. Among his recent publications are After the Arab revolutions. Decentering Democratic Transitions Theory (eds. With Khalil al Anani, Edinburgh University Press, 2021) and Genocidal nightmares. Narratives of insecurity and the logic of mass atrocities (ed., Bloomsbury, 2016).
This conference takes place at the IEMed conference room, Girona, 20 - Barcelona, in the framework of the Aula Mediterrània 2022-23 series.
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