C.V.

Education Language Skills | Grants and Research Projects | Academic Career | Employments in the Field of Social Services | Academic Memberships | Forthcoming Publications

Education

2016
Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, Faculty of Philosophy 1– Social Sciences and Historical Cultural Studies, the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), Halle Saale, Germany. Thesis title: “Group Identification and Resource Conflicts in Gedaref State, Eastern Sudan: Who allies with Whom? Why? And How?” Supervisor: Professor Günther Schlee
2009
M.Sc. (Sociology and Social Anthropology), the Graduate College, the University of Khartoum, Sudan. Thesis title: “Farmers Versus Pastoralists: Contested Land rights and Ethnic conflict in Dar Masālįt, West Darfur State”
1999
B.Sc. (honours- first class) in Sociology and Social Anthropology, Faculty of Economic and Social Studies, the University of Khartoum, Sudan

Language Skills

  • Arabic (fluent- reading, writing and speaking)
  • English (Excellent- reading, writing and speaking)
  • German (very good- reading, writing, speaking)

Grants and Research Projects

06/2017 - 06/2019
The Max-Planck Society grant for the research project: “The Challenges of Migration, Integration and Exclusion”
04/2010 - 04/2014
The Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology grant for doctoral students of the period 2010 to 2014
03/2012 - 03/2013
The French National Research Agency grant for the project “Anthropology of Law in the African and Asian Muslim Worlds”
01/2009 - 12/2009
Scholarship of the French Centre for Social, Legal and Economic Studies Documentation in the Sudan (CEDEJ)
06/2007 - 12/2008
Scholarship of the Christian Michelson Institute of Bergen (Norway) for the broad research project “Macro-micro issues of peace-building in the Sudan” 

Academic Career

2017 -
Research fellow. Department 'Integration and Conflict', Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany

04/2010 - 06/2016
Lecturer. Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, the University of Khartoum (Sudan). During this period I also worked as PhD Researcher in the Department 'Integration and Conflict', Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany

05/2005 - 03/2010 
Teaching Assistant. Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Faculty of Economic and Social Studies, the University of Khartoum, Sudan

Employments in the Field of Social Services

08/2016 - 08/2017
Social and Human Service Assistant working with unaccompanied minor refugees, Volkssolidarität Saale-Kyffhäuser e.V., Halle (Saale), Germany

Academic Memberships

  • International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) - member since 2013
  • Organization of Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA), Sudan Chapter - member since 2006
  • Member of the Sudanese Sociological Society (SSS) - member since 2006

Forthcoming Publications 

  • “Religious Superiority and its impacts on the question of National Cohesion in Sudan” (in Arabic)
  • Dynamics of Ethno-political alliances in Gedaref State (Sudan)
  • Migration from Sudan to Europe and the need for reinforcing the question of moral polity
  • At the Margins: Spatial Exclusion and Liminality of Forced Migrants in Germany (co-authored with Tabea Scharrer)
  • Exclusion Practices in the Context of Immigration in the Public Service Institutions in the City of Halle (Saale): The Interplay of Law and Group Identification
  • Xenophobia in the Context of Immigration: Narratives told by Syrian Immigrants in the City of Halle (Saale), Germany
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