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Sudan Brief | 2020
No Longer a Guest: Permitting Syrians in Sudan
When Syrian refugees first started arriving to Sudan in 2014 they were welcomed as guests. But Sudan’s economic crisis combined with Syrians’ success in business has created antagonism. The transitional...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Brief 2020:6) 4 p.

Book Chapter | 2020
Women, Corruption and Wasta in Jordan – A Case Study in Female Elected Representatives
in Ina Kubbe, Aiysha Varraich: Corruption and Informal Practices in the Middle East and North Africa. Routledge pp. 172-187

U4 Issue | 2019
Capacity building for politicians in contexts of systemic corruption: Countering ‘wasta’ in Jordan
The design of one common integrity-building intervention – capacity building for politicians – can be adapted to respond effectively to systemic forms of corruption. In the context of Jordan, systemic...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Issue 2019:9)

U4 Issue | 2019
Beyond the work permit quotas. Corruption and other barriers to labour integration for Syrian refugees in Jordan
In 2016, the Jordanian government began issuing work permits for Syrian refugees through the Ministry of Labor and cooperating labour associations. Despite its successes on some fronts, reliance on intermediaries...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Issue 2019:4)

Journal Article | 2019
Superleiren: Midtøsten som regional flyktningleir
Midtøsten er i dag blitt en permanent lagringsplass for flyktninger og migranter og kan derfor sammenliknes med en regional flyktningleir, en superleir.
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in Babylon - Nordisk tidsskrift for Midtøstenstudier vol. 17 no. 2 pp. 22-31

Newspaper Op-Ed | 2018
Trump straffer de svakeste palestinerne
Offentlig sier amerikanske myndigheter at USA ikke lenger vil bære byrden for et organ som lenge har vært i krisemodus, men bak kuttet til UNRWA ligger også dårlig skjulte politiske...
Dagbladet 21.09.2018

Journal Article | 2018
Vernacular Politics, Sectarianism, and National Identity among Syrian Refugees in Jordan
In Jordan - home to some one million Syrian refugees - the vital roles played by vernacular politics, discourses of inclusion and exclusion, and sectarian social histories for Syrians are...
in Religions vol. 9 no. 7

Newspaper Op-Ed | 2018
Barneekteskap i krig - et voksende problem
Fire ganger flere syriske jentebarn blir giftet bort nå enn før krigen. En dramatisk økning i antallet barneekteskap er en direkte følge av krig og konflikt.
Både lovendringer, økonomiske tiltak og...
Bistandsaktuelt 09.05.18

CMI Brief | 2017
Paper tiger law forbidding FGM in Sudan
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is still a common practice in Sudan. Nine out of ten women have been subjected to this practice.
In 2009, a proposed ban on FGM in the...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief vol. 16 no. 7) 4 p.

CMI Insight | 2016
Ending child marriages – new laws bring progress but hurdles remain
Reform of family law is considered among the most difficult to achieve since it contests ‘the notion of women and children as property’. There is a continuum ranging from criminalization...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Insight no. 4) 8 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.

Newspaper Op-Ed | 2015
Ingen trygg havn for palestinske flyktninger fra Syria
Ingen trygg havn for palestinske flyktninger
Kjersti Berg
En Palestinsk flyktning fra Syria kan ikke pa° lovlig vis søke trygghet over grensen i nabolandene. Hun møter stengte dører hvor hun vender...
Infofada 20.11.2015

Book Chapter | 2015
Halb voll oder halb leer? Korruption und ihre Bekämpfung in Indonesien
in Gunnar Stange, Rolf Jordan, Kristina Grossmann: Handbuch Indonesien. Berlin: Horlemann Verlag

Edited Book | 2015
Palestinian refugees: Identity, space and place in the Levant (Arabic edition)
More than four million Palestinian refugees live in protracted exile across the Middle East. Taking a regional approach to Palestinian refugee exile and alienation across the Levant, this book proposes...
Doha, Qatar: The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies

Newspaper Op-Ed | 2014
Raseri i Jerusalem
ISRAEL SLåR Nå ned palestinsk uro i Aust-Jerusalem med hard hand. Dette vil likevel ikkje forhindre meir uro og vald i byen, fordi dette er symptom på ein israelsk politikk som...
Bergens Tidende 27.12.2014

U4 Issue | 2013
Good governance for medicines initiatives: Exploring lessons learned
Corruption in the pharmaceutical system results in wasted resources, limited access to health services and reduced health gains. In this U4 Issue paper, we examine select global initiatives in the...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Issue 2013:3) 26 p.

Newspaper Op-Ed | 2010
Mot en politistat?
For befolkningen på Vestbredden er den palestinske selvstyremyndigheten verre enn israelerne.
«Vi lever i en politistat». I noen land i den arabiske verden ville et slikt utsagt vært et statement of...
Morgenbladet October 1, 2010

Book Chapter | 2009
Religiøse og kulturelle endringer i muslimers kulturmøte
in A. Brunvoll, H. Bringeland, N. Gilje, G. Skirbekk (Eds.) : Religion og kultur: Ein flerfagleg samtale. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget pp. 129-143

Journal Article | 2009
Islamists in Jordan: Promoters of or obstacles to female empowerment and gender equality?
This study deals with the Muslim Brotherhoods’ reception of CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discriminations against Women) in Jordan. In view of the Arab Human Development...
in Religion and Human Rights. vol. 4 no. 1. pp. 41-63

Journal Article | 2008
From Theocracy to Democracy? Towards Secularisation and Individualisation in the Policy of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan
There is a common assumption that 'Islam' has an inherent opposition between the sacred and the secular which obstructs the secularization process witnessed in western societies. This study argues that...
in Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies vol. 8 no. 7 pp. 84-107