This program has been POSTPONED to 2025. Exact date TBA.

**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive a link to access the Zoom Webinar via email.**

Explore the origins of the conflict in Sudan, Sudan’s history of authoritarianism and Islamist rule, the country’s fragmented internal security apparatus, and regional and ethnic divisions. Learn also how regional actors – namely the UAE, Egypt, Russia, and Saudi Arabia – have fueled this conflict for geopolitical gain. Led by Dr. Mai Hassan, an Associate Professor of Political Science at MIT. Her work examines topics that span across authoritarian regimes, bureaucracy and public administration, and contentious politics. Her first book, Regime Threats and State Solutions: Bureaucratic Loyalty and Embeddedness in Kenya, was selected as a Best Book by Foreign Affairs, won the American Political Science Association’s Robert A Dahl Award, and was the recipient of the African Studies Association's Bethwell A. Ogot Award. 

Registration has closed. This program has been rescheduled to 2025. Exact date TBA. Presented in collaboration with the Watertown Free Public Library.

RECORDING NOTE: This program will NOT be recorded.

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