2004-2008    Undergraduate: African Urban Studies, University of Khartoum
2004-2008    Undergraduate: Introduction to social anthropology, University of Khartoum
2005-2010    Undergraduate: Economic Anthropology
2005-2006    Postgraduate: Population Displacement, University of Juba
2018-2020    Undergraduate, Ethnicity and National Integration, University of Khartoum
2005-2022    Postgraduate: Qualitative Research Methodology, University of Khartoum
2010-2013    Postgraduate: Conflict and Population Mobility, Ahfad University for Women
2020-2021    Postgraduate: Development Planning, University of Sharjah, UAE
2020-2021    Postgraduate: Development Policy, University of Sharjah, UAE
2020-2021    Undergraduate: Research Methodology, University of Sharjah, UAE
2022-2023    Undergraduate: Industrial Sociology, University of Khartoum
2022-2023    Undergraduate: Urbanization in Developing Countries
 

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Books

2019      Co-editor with Leif Manger, Fekadu Adugna, and Eria Onyango, Borderlands dynamics in Eastern Africa: cases from Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda. Addis Ababa: OSSREA.

2015b    Co-editor, with B. Casciarri and F. Ireton, Multidimensional changes in Sudan 1989-2011: Reshaping livelihoods, political and identity conflicts in Sudan. New York: Berghahn Books.

2015a    Co-editor, with M. Abdul-Jalil, Past, present and future: fifty years of anthropology in Sudan. Bergen: Chr. Michelsens Institute.

2006c    with Leif Manger (eds.) Diasporas within and without Africa: dynamism, homogeneity, variation. Uppsala: The Nordic Africa Institute.

2005b   An annotated bibliography of social research on Darfur. Bergen: BRIC/University of Bergen.

2004a   Sticky Labels or Rich Ambiguities? Diaspora and challenges of homemaking for Somalis and Sudanese in Norway. Bergen: BRIC/University of Bergen.

2003      with Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed, M. A. M. Salih and Idris S. El-Hassan: Anthropology in the Sudan: a reflection by Sudanese anthropologist. Utrecht: International Books.

Journal Articles

2022      “Forging the Juba Peace Agreement: the role of national, regional and international actors,” African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review, 12(2): 5-22.

2020b    “Ethnicité, religion, nationalisme: intersections et ambiguïtés dans un Soudan en movement,” Cahiers d’Études Africaines 4(240): 761-778.

2020a    “A critical look at civil society and peace building in Sudan,” Bulletin of Sudanese Studies, 24: 1-30.

2013     "Homemaking as a transnational practice by Somalis and Sudanese in Norway,” Sudan Journal for Economic and Social Studies, 10(1).

2011a    “Contested legitimacy: civil society and peace building in Kassala,” Discourse, 1(1): 72-89.

2011b    “Migration of highly skilled Sudanese: gain or drain?’ Sudan Journal for Economic and Social Studies, (9)1: 79-94.

2009b     “The relationship between sedentary and nomadic peoples in the context of state policies and internationalization,” Nomadic Peoples, 13(1): 145-162.

2009a    “The question of identity in the Sudan: new dimensions for an old problem,” The Maghreb Review, 34 (2-3): 181-194.

2009      “Aid and traditional leadership in the Red Sea.” Societal Studies, 3: 197-216.

2007a    “Some aspects of cultural adaptation among internally displaced persons in Khartoum” (Arabic), Bulletin of Sudanese Studies, 13(2): 67-86. 

2006      “Sudan: Identity and conflict over national resources.” Development, 49(3):101-105.

2003a   “Unni Wikan and multicultural challenges.” Samtiden, 2: 40-51.

2002a    “A discipline asserting its identity and place: displacement, aid and anthropology in Sudan.” Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review, 18(1): 63-96.

Book Chapters

2022      “Some notes on the Tuareg (Kinin) of Northern Darfur, Sudan,” in Aleksander Boskovic and Gunther Schlee (eds), African Political Systems Revisited: changing perspectives on statehood and power. New York: Berghahn Books.

2019      “Borders and Boundaries: Possibilities and Challenges along Sudan and South Sudan Borders,” in Leif Manger et al (eds.), Borderlands dynamics in Eastern Africa: cases from Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda, pp 175-184. Addis Ababa: OSSREA

2019      “Citizenship, statelessness and human rights protection in Sudan’s constitutions and post South Sudan secession challenges,” in Lutz Oette and Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker (eds.), Constitution-making and human rights in the Sudans. New York: Rutledge.

2018      “Anthropology in Sudan,” Wiley Encyclopaedia of Anthropology

2017      “Land allocation in Al-Salha, Omdurman: land grabbing or business as usual?” in Barbara Casciarri and Mohamed Babiker (eds.) Anthropology of Law in Muslim Sudan. Leiden: Brill.

2015      ‘The Arab Spring and Sudan brain drain,’ in Philippe Fargues and Alessandra Venturini (eds.) Migration from North Africa and the Middle East: skilled migrants, development and globalization. London: I.B. Tauris.

2015      “A Sudanese anthropologist doing fieldwork in Norway: some critical reflections,” in Munzoul Assal and Musa Adam Abdul-Jalil (eds): Past, present and future: fifty years of anthropology in Sudan, pp. 163-178. Bergen: Chr Michelsen Institute.

2014      The struggle for citizenship in Sudan," in Engin Isin and Peter Nyers (eds) Routledge global citizenship reader, pp. 196-204. London: Routledge.

2013a    “Six years after Eastern Sudan Pease Agreement: an assessment,” in Gunnar Sørbø and Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed (eds), Sudan divided: continuing conflict in a contested state, pp. 142-160. New York: Palgrave McMillan.

2011      “From the country to the town,” in John Ryle et al (eds.) The Sudan handbook, pp. 63-69. Oxford: Jamaes Currey.

2009a    “The role of UN in peace building in Sudan,” in Hassan Abdel Ati and Galal el-Din El-Tayeb (eds.) Peace in Sudan...so near so far? Pp. 24-37. Khartoum and Nairobi: EDGE and Heinrich Böll Foundation.

2009b    “Locating responsibilities: national and international responses to the crisis in Darfur,” in Salah Hassan and Carina Ray (eds), Darfur and the crisis of governance: a critical reader, pp. 285-296. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

2009c    “The National Congress Party and the Darfurian armed groups,” in David Black and Paul Williams (eds.), The international politics of mass atrocities: the case of Darfur, pp27-48. London: Rutledge.

2008     “IDPs in Sudan and post-war scenarios,” in Katarzyan Grabska and Lyla Mehta (eds), Forced displacement: why rights matter? Pp. 139-158. London: Palgrave McMillan.

2006a    “Introduction: Diaspora within and without Africa: homogeneity, heterogeneity, variation,” in Leif Manger and Munzoul Assal (eds) Diaspora within and without Africa: homogeneity, heterogeneity, variation, pp. 7-31. Uppsala: The Nordic Africa Institute.

2006b    “Somalis and Sudanese in Norway: religion, politics, clan/ethnicity in the diaspora,” in Leif Manger and Munzoul Assal (eds) Diaspora within and without Africa: homogeneity, heterogeneity, variation, 165-196. Uppsala: The Nordic Africa Institute.

2005a    “A source of difference or a repository of support: Islam and the lives of Somalis and Sudanese in Norway,” in Adogame, Afe and Cordula Weiβköppel (eds.) Religion in the context of African migration, pp. 191-216. Bayreuth: Bayreuth African Studies Series.

2005b    “Somalis and Sudanese in Norway and the question of religious authenticity,” in Markussen, Irene and Richard Natvig (eds.), Islamer i Norge, pp. 63-82. Uppsala: Swedish Science Press.

2005c    “Economy and polity in Gedarif: a symbiotic encounter,” in Miller, Catherine et al (eds.) Land, ethnicity and political legitimacy in Eastern Sudan, pp. 173-202. Cairo: CEDEJ/DSRI.

2005d    “Behind the masks: protracted marginalization in Darfur,” in Hassan Abdel Ati (ed.) Sudan: the challenge of peace and redressing marginalization in Sudan, pp. 24-38. Khartoum: EDGE and the National Civic Forum.

1996      “Subsistence economy, environmental awareness and resource management in Um Kaddada Province, Northern Darfur State,” in Managing scarcity: human adaptation in east African drylands, 127-139, edited by A/Ghaffar M. Ahmed and Hassan Abdel Ati. Addis Ababa: OSSREA.

Published Research Reports

2006a    Do they have a choice? Factors pulling Somalis to Norway. Published online: (www.landinfo.no/asset/507/1/507_1.pdf)

2006b    Whose Rights Count? National and International Responses to the Rights of IDPs in the Sudan. Brighton: Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalization and Poverty, University of Sussex, UK. This report is available at the following site: (http://www.migrationdrc.org/publications/research_reports/IDPS-DRC-AUC-FRMS-ASSAL.pdf)

2007      Co-author: Eastern Sudan: challenges facing the implementation of peace agreement in Gedaref State. Situation Report, Institute of Security Studies, Pretoria. 

2008      Is it the fault of NGOs alone? aid and dependency in eastern Sudan. CMI Working Paper No. 5 (available at www.cmi.no)

2011a    City limits: urbanization and vulnerability in Sudan, Khartoum case study

http://www.odi.org.uk/resources/download/5295.pdf

2011b    Nationality and citizenship questions in Sudan after the southern Sudan referendum vote

http://www.cmi.no/publications/file/3933-nationality-and-citizenship-questions-in sudan.pdf

2011c   Conflict induced migration and post-referendum challenges. CARIM Analytic and Synthetic Note No. 75. Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute. 

2011d    Gender and migration in Sudan: socio-political aspects. CARIM Analytic and Synthetic Note No. 5. Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute.

2010      Highly skilled Sudanese migrants: gain or drain? Technical Report, [Migration Policy Centre], [CARIM-South], CARIM Analytic and Synthetic Notes, 2010/13. Highly-skilled Sudanese migrants: gain or drain? (eui.eu) 

A selection of popular writings (blogs and policy briefs)

2023      How the international community failed Sudan CMI blog How the international community failed Sudan (cmi.no)

2020      Normalisation with Israel: Could Sudan be next? The New Arab Normalisation with Israel: Could Sudan be next? (newarab.com)

2019      Sudan’s popular uprising and the demise of Islamism CMI brief Sudan’s popular uprising and the demise of Islamism (cmi.no)

2019      The Arab autocracies blocking Sudan’s path to democracy” The New Arab Sudan's transition to democracy: Will it be smooth? (newarab.com)

2019     Sudan’s violence against protesters cast shadow over power sharing deal The New Arab Sudan's violence against protesters casts shadow over power-sharing deal (newarab.com)

2019      Sudan’s transition to democracy: Will it be smooth? The New Arab The Arab autocracies blocking Sudan's path to democracy (newarab.com)

2008     Urbanization and the Future of Sudan African Arguments Urbanization and the Future of Sudan--New Perspectives | African Arguments

1. Leader: Borderlands dynamics: anthropological capacity building in East African Universities (2013-2018). This is a NOK 17.5 million NORAD funded project that brought together the universities of Bergen, Khartoum (Sudan), Makerere (Uganda), and Addis Ababa (Ethiopia).
2. Leader: Refugees on the move: South Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia, Sudan, and Uganda (2021-2025). Building on NORHED I, this NORHED II is another competence and network building that brought together the universities of Bergen, Khartoum, Makerere, Addis Ababa, and Juba.
3. Co-Leader with Liv Tønnessen: Sudan-Norway Academic Collaboration (SNAC). Building on 60 years of academic collaboration between Sudan and Norway, this project brings together the University of Bergen, the Chr Michelsen Institute, the University of Khartoum, and seven other universities in Sudan. The overall aim is to produce high quality research the contribute to addressing challenges facing Sudan.