Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf
Biographic Data
| ID | 226266 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rogaia Mustafa |
| FAMILY NAME | Abusharaf |
| SIGNATURE | ABUSHARAF R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University in Qatar |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Goolo Korr”: Mama Kookie and the Politics of Public Intimacy in a Sudanese Livestream
This essay examines the work of Kawthar Abdalla, known as Mama Kookie, a Sudanese social media influencer whose digital platforms have cultivated a transnational feminist community of over one million viewers amid Sudan’s ongoing war and displacement crisis. Through analysis of 75+ livestreams, I argue that Mama Kookie’s practice embodies Alice Walker’s womanism and spans critical dimensions: confronting racism, validating witchcraft testimonies …
Introduction: Bearing Witness to Sudan's Unraveling
Omdurman: A Requiem
Unadorned: An Essay on a Conjugal Spectacle in Postcolonial Zanzibar
This essay explores the historical, political and cultural lessons of a Shia Khoja diasporic account about the Forced Marriage Act, also known as Ndoa za Karume ( NZK ), in 1964 post-revolutionary Zanzibar. It examines how the pogroms committed by the Afro-Shirazi government against Arab and Asian communities in this period shaped the narration and transmission of memories of social suffering. In particular, the essay analyzes a work by a Zanziba…
Rachid Koraïchi Faces Sea Terror in His Le Jardin d’Afrique
This essay addresses itself to the formidable Algerian artist Rachid Koraïchi’s Le Jardin d’Afrique. The spectacular naming of this cemetery bears testimony to his humanist commitments and efforts to interweave art and politics by revealing the enforced aversion toward migrations and border-crossings. He created Le Jardin to restore the deserved dignity and respect of those who drowned in the Mediterranean en route to Europe. Koraïchi’s Le Jardin…
Conundrums in the House of Wailing
This essay examines widowhood rites and traditions in Northern Muslim Sudan, including those sanctioned by religion (that is, property inheritance and widows' internment) and those endorsed by local communities. The microhistorical ethnographic accounts in this essay illustrate the deep psychological and physical suffering that narrators experienced as they navigated the labyrinth of socially sanctioned practices in their communities. They also c…
Diasporic Circularities: Omani-Zanzibaris Narrate Experiences in and Out of the Archipelago, 1964
The experience of the Omani-Zanzibaris who were forced to migrate from Zanzibar to Oman in 1964 has received relatively little attention, particularly as seen from the arriving/returning Omani-Zanzibaris’ emic perspectives. As we will see in this chapter, Oman’s identity as a cosmopolitan empire offers a variety of pathways for understanding its present-day culture and politics, as well as its responses to the large wave of arrivals from postcolo…
Wanderings: Sudanese Migrants and Exiles in North America
The Omani-Zanzibari Family
Through a multi-sited ethnological lens, this article highlights the influences of political and economic dynamics on the Omani-Zanzibari family construction. It explores the fluid nature of the Omani-Swahili identity, the role of the family institution in regulating morality and sexuality, and the impacts of political events and forces on the development of multiple family configurations. It further analyzes key societal concepts such as marriag…
Higher Education Investment in the Arab States of the Gulf: Strategies for Excellence and Diversity
Margin and Center in Sudan
Sudan is usually classified as a “failing” or “weak” state in the international arena due to its incoherent and dysfunctional political system and economic constraints. This chapter attempts to analyze a text on colonial governance and post-colonial forms of surrogacy, written by the late Sudanese secular intellectual Abdel Khaliq Mahgoub, which has been banned by both military and civilian governments. It is argued that Mahgoub’s work operates a…
Migration in Pre‐oil Qatar: A Sketch
Finding Spaces for Fairness
Excavating Gender Justice: The Predicament and the Promise disentangles discourses and practices of asymmetrical power. It engages culture and politics by expounding the ways in which religion, modernity, tradition, jurisprudence, and citizenship have come to comprise constitutive elements of gender politics. When we speak of gender justice, we confront matters that lie at the heart of the knottiest philosophical, legal, and anthropological conun…
The Words of Ina Beasley: Glimpses from a Life in British Sudan
This essay presents a woman whose ideas not only signifies a challenge to conventional approaches to the relationship between colonialism and feminism, but also enables us to appreciate the intricacies and diversities of colonial experiences and the multiple roles played by individuals who wielded some level of authority in a colonised society. Since this essay is a tribute to Ina Beasley, it reproduces substantial excerpts from her papers on the…
Debating Darfur in the World
This article compares the debates and demonstrations about Darfur that have taken place in the Sudan, the United States, and Qatar and illuminates how political violence is apprehended and cultural identities are constructed. The rallies that occurred among Sudanese inside and outside the Sudan following the 2009 indictment of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir by the International Criminal Court (ICC) are particularly revealing. Examining what has …
Introduction: Writing the Dialectic
In a sociopolitical and cultural context like that of Sudan, where forces of militarist, Islamist, and traditionalist politics persist with tenacity, chronicling the politics and intellectual legacy of Sudanese Marxism is a must for apprehending both its historiography and its present struggle for institutionalizing societal transformation. "What's Left of the Left?" is not a mere commemoration of the efforts to enact progressive politics in a so…
Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan: Politics and the Body in a Squatter Settlement
Transforming displaced women in Sudan: Politics and the Body in a Squatter Settlement
Over 20 years of civil war in predominantly Christian Southern Sudan has forced countless people from their homes. This book examines the lives of women who have forged a new community in a shantytown on the outskirts of Khartoum, the largely Muslim heavily Arabized capital in the north of the country
Marx in the Vernacular: Abdel Khaliq Mahgoub and the Riddles of Localizing Leftist Politics in Sudanese Philosophies of Liberation
In the thought of the late secretary-general of the Sudanese Communist Party, Abdel Khaliq Mahgoub, the intricacies of culture and politics are deftly interwoven in a thorough ethnographic and philosophical critique of state and society. Mahgoub's wide-ranging writings engaging questions of liberation led him to devote his life to localizing Marxist theory in the Sudanese context. His explication of the tools of translating Marxism challenges abs…
Sudanese Women Peace-Builders Discuss How to Salvage Darfur
Competing masculinities: Probing political disputes as acts of violence against women from Southern Sudan and Darfur
We Have Supped So Deep in Horrors: Understanding Colonialist Emotionality and British Responses to Female Circumcision in Northern Sudan
When the British colonized Sudan, they were horrified by the practice of female circumcision. Unable to comprehend the meanings of this ritual to adherents, they interpreted it as irrational, immoral and uncivilized. British officials conducted a propaganda campaign against the practice, induced clerics to condemn it as un‐Islamic and passed a stringent, albeit ineffective, law forbidding infibulation in 1946. In the process, they turned female c…
Smoke Bath
Smoke Bath
Narrating Feminism: The Woman Question in the Thinking of an African Radical
rogaia mustafa abusharaf is a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, and a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School. She is the author of Wanderings: Sudanese Migrants and Exiles in North America (Cornell University Press, 2002) and the editor ofFemale Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives (University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming 2004), …
Virtuous Cuts: Female Genital Circumcision in an African Ontology
rogaia mustafa abusharaf is Nancy L. Buc Postdoctoral Fellow at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University. She is also a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tufts University
Sudanese Migration to the New World: Socio‐economic Characteristics
Sudanese migration is one of the most recent waves from the developing world to the US and Canada. Previous studies on Sudanese international migration were concerned with migration to Egypt and the oil‐rich Arab countries (i.e. Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Libya, Qatar and Iraq). This article, the first on Sudanese‐New World migration, focuses on the period since the advent of the current Islamic military government of Lieutenant …
Debating Darfur in the World
This article compares the debates and demonstrations about Darfur that have taken place in the Sudan, the United States, and Qatar and illuminates how political violence is apprehended and cultural identities are constructed. The rallies that occurred among Sudanese inside and outside the Sudan following the 2009 indictment of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir by the International Criminal Court (ICC) are particularly revealing. Examining what has …
We Have Supped So Deep in Horrors: Understanding Colonialist Emotionality and British Responses to Female Circumcision in Northern Sudan
When the British colonized Sudan, they were horrified by the practice of female circumcision. Unable to comprehend the meanings of this ritual to adherents, they interpreted it as irrational, immoral and uncivilized. British officials conducted a propaganda campaign against the practice, induced clerics to condemn it as un‐Islamic and passed a stringent, albeit ineffective, law forbidding infibulation in 1946. In the process, they turned female c…
Migration in Pre‐oil Qatar: A Sketch
Introduction: Writing the Dialectic
In a sociopolitical and cultural context like that of Sudan, where forces of militarist, Islamist, and traditionalist politics persist with tenacity, chronicling the politics and intellectual legacy of Sudanese Marxism is a must for apprehending both its historiography and its present struggle for institutionalizing societal transformation. "What's Left of the Left?" is not a mere commemoration of the efforts to enact progressive politics in a so…
Competing masculinities: Probing political disputes as acts of violence against women from Southern Sudan and Darfur
Smoke Bath
Narrating Feminism: The Woman Question in the Thinking of an African Radical
rogaia mustafa abusharaf is a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, and a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School. She is the author of Wanderings: Sudanese Migrants and Exiles in North America (Cornell University Press, 2002) and the editor ofFemale Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives (University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming 2004), …
Wanderings: Sudanese Migrants and Exiles in North America
The Muslims of America
Sudanese Migration to the New World: Socio‐economic Characteristics
Sudanese migration is one of the most recent waves from the developing world to the US and Canada. Previous studies on Sudanese international migration were concerned with migration to Egypt and the oil‐rich Arab countries (i.e. Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Libya, Qatar and Iraq). This article, the first on Sudanese‐New World migration, focuses on the period since the advent of the current Islamic military government of Lieutenant …
The Resurrection of the Savage: Warrior Marks Revisited
SHAKIR, Evelyn, Bint Arab: Arab and Arab American Women in the United States
"SHAKIR, Evelyn, BINT ARAB: Arab and Arab American Women in the United States." Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 30(3), pp. 559–560
Female Circumcision Goes Beyond Feminism
Virtuous Cuts: Female Genital Circumcision in an African Ontology
rogaia mustafa abusharaf is Nancy L. Buc Postdoctoral Fellow at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University. She is also a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tufts University
Wanderings: Sudanese Migrants and Exiles in North America
Wanderings: Sudanese Migrants and Exiles in North America
Narrating Feminism: The Woman Question in the Thinking of an African Radical
rogaia mustafa abusharaf is a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, and a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School. She is the author of Wanderings: Sudanese Migrants and Exiles in North America (Cornell University Press, 2002) and the editor ofFemale Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives (University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming 2004), …
The Shadow of A Man is not better than the Shadow of A Wall: The Uses of Anthropology in Understanding Women's Human Rights and Struggles in the Sudan
Smoke Bath
Smoke Bath
Competing masculinities: Probing political disputes as acts of violence against women from Southern Sudan and Darfur
We Have Supped So Deep in Horrors: Understanding Colonialist Emotionality and British Responses to Female Circumcision in Northern Sudan
When the British colonized Sudan, they were horrified by the practice of female circumcision. Unable to comprehend the meanings of this ritual to adherents, they interpreted it as irrational, immoral and uncivilized. British officials conducted a propaganda campaign against the practice, induced clerics to condemn it as un‐Islamic and passed a stringent, albeit ineffective, law forbidding infibulation in 1946. In the process, they turned female c…
Sudanese Women Peace-Builders Discuss How to Salvage Darfur
Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan: Politics and the Body in a Squatter Settlement
Transforming displaced women in Sudan: Politics and the Body in a Squatter Settlement
Over 20 years of civil war in predominantly Christian Southern Sudan has forced countless people from their homes. This book examines the lives of women who have forged a new community in a shantytown on the outskirts of Khartoum, the largely Muslim heavily Arabized capital in the north of the country
Marx in the Vernacular: Abdel Khaliq Mahgoub and the Riddles of Localizing Leftist Politics in Sudanese Philosophies of Liberation
In the thought of the late secretary-general of the Sudanese Communist Party, Abdel Khaliq Mahgoub, the intricacies of culture and politics are deftly interwoven in a thorough ethnographic and philosophical critique of state and society. Mahgoub's wide-ranging writings engaging questions of liberation led him to devote his life to localizing Marxist theory in the Sudanese context. His explication of the tools of translating Marxism challenges abs…
The Words of Ina Beasley: Glimpses from a Life in British Sudan
This essay presents a woman whose ideas not only signifies a challenge to conventional approaches to the relationship between colonialism and feminism, but also enables us to appreciate the intricacies and diversities of colonial experiences and the multiple roles played by individuals who wielded some level of authority in a colonised society. Since this essay is a tribute to Ina Beasley, it reproduces substantial excerpts from her papers on the…
Debating Darfur in the World
This article compares the debates and demonstrations about Darfur that have taken place in the Sudan, the United States, and Qatar and illuminates how political violence is apprehended and cultural identities are constructed. The rallies that occurred among Sudanese inside and outside the Sudan following the 2009 indictment of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir by the International Criminal Court (ICC) are particularly revealing. Examining what has …
Introduction: Writing the Dialectic
In a sociopolitical and cultural context like that of Sudan, where forces of militarist, Islamist, and traditionalist politics persist with tenacity, chronicling the politics and intellectual legacy of Sudanese Marxism is a must for apprehending both its historiography and its present struggle for institutionalizing societal transformation. "What's Left of the Left?" is not a mere commemoration of the efforts to enact progressive politics in a so…
Finding Spaces for Fairness
Excavating Gender Justice: The Predicament and the Promise disentangles discourses and practices of asymmetrical power. It engages culture and politics by expounding the ways in which religion, modernity, tradition, jurisprudence, and citizenship have come to comprise constitutive elements of gender politics. When we speak of gender justice, we confront matters that lie at the heart of the knottiest philosophical, legal, and anthropological conun…
Migration in Pre‐oil Qatar: A Sketch
Higher Education Investment in the Arab States of the Gulf: Strategies for Excellence and Diversity
Margin and Center in Sudan
Sudan is usually classified as a “failing” or “weak” state in the international arena due to its incoherent and dysfunctional political system and economic constraints. This chapter attempts to analyze a text on colonial governance and post-colonial forms of surrogacy, written by the late Sudanese secular intellectual Abdel Khaliq Mahgoub, which has been banned by both military and civilian governments. It is argued that Mahgoub’s work operates a…
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