Mostafa Hussein, Professor and Associate Director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, will discuss how Jewish writers in late Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine used Arabo-Islamic culture to advance Zionism’s goals in the decades leading up to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.

After the 2021 coup in Sudan, the powersharing agreement between factions of the military government broke down in April 2023. These two armed groups have led the natural resource-rich country of 52 million people into a catastrophic humanitarian crisis and violence, with more than a quarter of the population displaced and subject to famine and massacres.

The conflict, broadly dubbed a civil war, raises questions about genocide by attrition and state intent, and the role of the international community in perpetuating the resource-driven warfare into a third year.

Professor Alex de Waal, an anthropologist and the executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University, will join Professor Ebrahim Moosa to discuss the war and its broader implications for the rule of law and the international community. De Waal is a foremost authority on famine and has worked on the Horn of Africa since the 1980s as a researcher and practitioner.

Speakers/Panelists:

• Ebrahim Moosa (moderator), Mirza Family Professor of Islamic Thought and Muslim Societies and Director of the Contending Modernities research initiative
• Alex De Waal, Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation

This event is presented by the Keough School of Global Affairs’ Contending Modernities research initiative and the Mirza Family Professor in Islamic Thought & Muslim Societies, in collaboration with the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and with co-sponsorship from the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion and the Africa Working Group at the Kellogg Institute.