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Journal Article | forthcoming 2021
Legal Mobilization to Protect Women against Rape in Islamist Sudan
A popular uprising recently ousted Omar al-Bashir and his Islamist cronies from power after having ruled Sudan with an iron fist since 1989. Sexual abuse and torture orchestrated by the...
in Cahiers d'études africaines

CMI Working Paper | 2020
The UAE’s Humanitarian Diplomacy: Claiming State Sovereignty, Regional Leverage and International Recognition
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) became the world’s third-largest donor of humanitarian aid relative to Gross National Income in 2016. The country was among the top five humanitarian assistance state-donors...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2020:1) 11 p.

Journal Article | 2020
A critical look at civil society and peace building in Sudan (in arabic)
in Bulletin of Sudanese Studies

CMI Report | 2017
Family law reform in Sudan: competing claims for gender justice between sharia and women’s human rights
This paper focuses on family law reform in Sudan-a country that has been in a state of perpetual conflict that stretches back long before its independence in 1956. The signing...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2017:5) 28 p.

Sudan Report | 2017
Traditional, but changing, cultural norms: Rural community views on child marriage in Algadaref State, Sudan
This report investigates child marriage in Algadaref State, located in Sudan’s eastern region.
Child marriage is a human rights violation affecting children’s and women’s rights to health, education, equality, non-discrimination,...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Report SR 2017:4) 44 p.

Journal Article | 2017
The Southern Transitional Council: Implications for Yemen's Peace Process
Analysis of the creation of the Southern Transitional Council (STC) in South Yemen based on predominantly Arabic-language sources, and an assessment of potential impact on Yemen's peace process.
in Middle East Policy vol. 24 no. 3 pp. 133-144

Sudan Report | 2017
Girls, Child Marriage, and Education in Red Sea State, Sudan: Perspectives on Girls’ Freedom to Choose
Child marriage is any formal marriage or informal union where one or both parties are under 18 years of age. Child marriage affects both boys and girls, but disproportionately affects...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Report SR 2017:3) 67 p.

Edited Book | 2017
Civil-military relations in Lebanon: Conflict, cohesion and confessionalism in a divided society
First book to examine civil-military relations in post-Arab Spring Lebanon
This volume examines Lebanon’s post-2011 security dilemmas and the tenuous civil-military relations. The Syrian civil war has strained the Lebanese Armed...
Palgrave Macmillan 155 p.

Book Chapter | 2017
Syria's refugees in Lebanon: Brothers, burden and bone of contention
The Syrian civil war has displaced more than one million Syrians as refugees in Lebanon. Lebanon has not set up formal camps, but instituted a “non–camp” approach, meaning that nearly...
in Rosita di Peri, Daniel Meier: Lebanon Facing the Arab Uprisings: Between Internal Challenges and External Constraints. London: Palgrave Macmillan pp. 135-154

Edited Book | 2016
Media and Political Contestation in the Contemporary Arab World
This book addresses the role that various media have in the shaping and active contestation of particular conflicts and political agendas in the Arab world, and the socio-political dynamics generated...

CMI Report | 2016
Women and Girls Caught between Rape and Adultery in Sudan: Criminal Law Reform, 2005–2015 (in Arabic)
This is an Arabic translation of the CMI report Women and Girls Caught between Rape and Adultery in Sudan: Criminal Law Reform, 2005–2015, published in November 2015.
The English version can be found...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2015:10)

Edited Book | 2016
Oil States in the New Middle East. Uprisings and stability
Oil has been central to regime survival for oil states across the Arabian Peninsula and has been at the heart of their attempts to defuse the wave of Arab revolutions....
New York: Routledge (Routledge studies in Middle Eastern Democratization and Government)

Sudan Working Paper | 2016
From a Temporary Emergency Shelter to an Urbanized Neighborhood: The Abu Shoak IDP Camp in North Dārfūr
Introduction
In early 2003, two rebel movements (the Sudanese Liberation Army and the Justice and Equality Movement) launched an insurgency against the rule in Khartoum. Supported by Janjaweed tribal militias, the...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Working Paper SWP 2016:3) 14 p.

Journal Article | 2016
Trial of the Status Quo: The Politics of Mediated Justice in the Special Tribunal for Lebanon
The Lebanese media landscape is widely acknowledged to be a battleground for privatized outlets aligned with political elites. Each outlet vies for hegemony in a crowded and competitive marketplace of...
in Arab Studies Journal, 24(1): 68-88

CMI Report | 2016
Unfulfilled hopes. The quest for a minimum marriage age in Yemen, 2009–2014
The project Women’s Human Rights and Law Reform in the Muslim World seeks to map family and criminal law reforms in the period 1995-2015 in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Morocco,...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2016:3)

CMI Insight | 2016
The Sudan Armed Forces and Prospects of Change
The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) has a long history of siding with civil protestors in times of national political crisis. In recent years, waves of popular protests, often called the...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Insight no. 2016:3) 9 p.

Edited Book | 2016
Businessmen in Arms: How the Military and Other Armed Groups Profit in the MENA Region
The Arab Uprisings have brought renewed attention to the role of the military in the MENA region, where they are either the backbone of regime power or a crucial part...
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 334 p.

Book | 2016
An Annotated Bibliography of Social Research on the Nuba Mountains
It was possible for this volume to come together in a few months only because of previous efforts of long-time colleagues in my research on the Nuba Mountains, most of...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute

Journal Article | 2015
Framed Justice: The Politics of Media for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon
[English abstract] The Lebanese media landscape is widely acknowledged to be a battleground for privatized outlets aligned with political elites. Each outlet vies for hegemony in a crowded and competitive...
in Arab Journal for Political Science vol. 45-46 pp. 89-109

Sudan Working Paper | 2015
The Women's Quota in Conflict Ridden Sudan (in Arabic)
This article explores women's substantive representation in Sudan's National Assembly. It examines the extent to which female legislators in the National Assembly represent women's interests, paying special attention to legislative...