{"id":1105129,"date":"2023-06-26T05:54:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T05:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=287153"},"modified":"2023-06-26T05:54:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T05:54:04","slug":"khalid-medani-on-sudanese-history-the-current-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/06\/26\/khalid-medani-on-sudanese-history-the-current-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Khalid Medani on Sudanese History &amp; the Current War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"post_date\" title=\"2023-06-26\">June 26, 2023<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"post_author_intro\">by<\/span> <span class=\"post_author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/author\/eric-draitser\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Eric Draitser<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"socialtwo\">\n<div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 a2a_default_style left-social\" data-a2a-icon-color=\"unset\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/26\/khalid-medani-on-sudanese-history-the-current-war\/print\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Print This Post\" class=\"print-icon\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/09\/atoa-print-icon.png\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post_content\" readability=\"48\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vvYN6M9pn-Y\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This time Eric is joined by Khalid Medani, Director of the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University and author of \u201cBlack Markets and Militants: Informal Networks in the Middle East and Africa,\u201d to discuss the situation in Sudan. The conversation explores the history of Sudan, including the colonial period and the creation of the modern state. From there, Dr. Medani provides his analysis of the roots of the current conflict, the factions involved, the social classes participating in the protests, and much more. The final portion of the discussion discusses the roles of the US, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Russia, China, and others in Sudan.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">\nThis content originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/26\/khalid-medani-on-sudanese-history-the-current-war\/\" >CounterPunch.org<\/a> and was authored by Eric Draitser.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 26, 2023<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tby Eric Draitser<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<br \/>\nThis time Eric is joined by Khalid Medani, Director of the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University and author of \u201cBlack Markets and Militants: Informal Networks in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":243,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1105304,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105129\/revisions\/1105304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}