MENA Monday | The Afrabians: The Rise of the Arab Gulf in the Horn of Africa | Alden Young
When:
Monday, November 18, 2024
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM CT
Where: University Hall, 201, 1897 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Cost: 0
Contact:
MENA
Group: Middle East and North African Studies
Co-Sponsor:
Program of African Studies
WCCIAS
Category: Lectures & Meetings, Academic, Social, Multicultural & Diversity, Global & Civic Engagement
Description:
Please join MENA in welcoming Alden Young, Yale. He will give a lecture "The Afrabians: The Rise of the Arab Gulf in the Horn of Africa." This presentation will draw on his research on the impact of Arab Gulf States in the 1970s on the Greater Red Sea region and address the current conflict in the Sudan. Lunch will be served.
Alden Young is an associate professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University. He is a political and economic historian of Africa and the Middle East. He has written extensively about Sudan, and is writing a book on post-partition conflicts in the Horn of Africa (e.g., Sudan-South Sudan and Ethiopia-Eritrea) with political scientist Michael Woldemariam.
He is the author of Transforming Sudan: Decolonization, Economic Development and State Formation (Cambridge University Press 2017), paperback release 2020. He has published numerous academic journals and writes frequently in popular forums like Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and Noema Magazine.