African Arguments
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Is Sudan Transitioning to a post-Islamist State?
Islamism and Post-Islamism Islamism has been defined as “˜political Islam’ or a “˜politicized Islam.’ It emerged as the major Western diagnostic reference for “˜extremism’ ... -
Complex Emergencies and the Humanitarian Enterprise
Posted by Angela Raven-Roberts. David Keen has written a very readable and approachable book tackling a complex subject and tracing its multiple representations, interpretations ... -
Putting the Complex into Complex Emergencies
Posted on behalf of Michael Barnett. David Keen certainly puts the complex into complex emergencies. Combining critical theorizing and detailed knowledge of conflict zones ... -
Reading Wars Actively
Complex Emergencies emanates from lectures renowned for their capacity to challenge MSc students (I was one of them) and encourage new ways of thinking. ... -
Complex Emergencies
On page 115 of his recent book Complex Emergencies, David Keen writes, “For those familiar with this famine [1988 in southwest Kordofan and Bahr ... -
Is Sudan a “Post Islamist” State? III
This last few days, this blog has launched a discussion on political Islam in Sudan, focusing on the recent book The First Islamist Republic: ... -
Is Sudan a “Post-Islamist” State? II
Part II of The Sudanese Islamists’ Wars: Processes of Disintegration from Khalil to Turabi Khalil’s War The mutual hostility among the Islamists has been ... -
Is Sudan a “Post-Islamist” State?
Part I: The Sudanese Islamists’ Wars: Processes of Disintegration from al-Turabi to Khalil In an interview published on 22 May in the London based ... -
Can Sudan Survive?
The modern history of Sudan is riddled with bloodshed, destruction and squandered chances for peace and democracy. Consistently, the worst case scenario comes to ... -
Land and Power: the Case of the Zaghawa
This post is also available in French (PDF, 96KB). Land has often been described as a key motivation for the Arabs and non-Arabs who ...