Op-eds
Suliman Baldo and Mai Hassan. September 21, 2025 “Opinion | Sudan is What Happens When You Recognize a Junta.” The New York Times (link)
Mai Hassan and Ahmed Kodouda. April 30, 2025. “Sudan Is Unraveling.” Foreign Affairs (link)
Mai Hassan and Ahmed Kodouda. May 1, 2023. “Sudan’s Generals Are Dragging the Country Toward Disaster.” Foreign Affairs (link)
Killian Clarke and Mai Hassan. October 29, 2021. “Opinion | This Is How to Stop the Coup in Sudan.” The New York Times (link)
Mai Hassan and Ahmed Kodouda. April 15, 2019. “Analysis | Sudan Ousted Two Autocrats in Three Days. Here’s What’s Next.” Washington Post (link)
Selected Media Commentary, Podcasts, and Expert Panels
Fareed Zakaria. “Sudan’s War.” November 2, 2025. CNN: GPS (video link; audio only link)
Eve Fairbanks. “Sudan’s Intractable War.” May 29, 2025. The Foreign Affairs Interview (link)
Sudan in Crisis. April 15, 2025. Harvard Institute of Politics Forum (link)
Sudan Under Fire. April 7, 2025. MIT Starr Forum (link)
Political Elites, Civil Society, and the Future of Sudan. March 14, 2024. LSE Middle East Centre (link)
Sudan’s Conflict, Explained. May 26, 2023. Vox (link)
Jonathan Guyer. “Could the US Have Helped Avert the Crisis in Sudan?” May 15, 2023. Vox (link)
Marc Lynch. “Sudan’s Descent into Civil War: My conversation with Mai Hassan.” April 20, 2023. Abu Aardvark’s MENA Academy (link)
Isaac Chotiner. “The Failed ‘Coup-Proofing’ Behind the Recent Violence in Sudan.” April 20, 2023. The New Yorker (link)
“The Waning Possibility of Democracy in Sudan.” June 20, 2019. NPR 1A (link)