Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf

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Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf
Born2 October 1967
Sudan
Alma materUniversity of Connecticut
Occupation(s)Academic; Anthropologist
OrganizationGeorgetown University in Qatar

Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf is a Sudanese ethnographer and is Professor of Anthropology at Georgetown University in Qatar. [1]

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Biography

Abusharaf was born on 2 October 1967 in Sudan. Her parents Mustafa and Fatima were both teachers. [2] In 1987 she married the academic Mohamed Hussein, they have two children. [2] She was educated at Cairo University, where she was awarded a BA from the School of Social and Political Sciences. She studied at the University of Connecticut for both her MA and her PhD. [2]

Research

Abusharaf's research focuses on the anthropology of gender, human rights and diaspora issues in Sudan, culture and politics. [1] Migration whether inside Sudan, or externally in a major theme in her research and she has worked on Sudanese migration to North America. [3] Her interest in Sudanese politics has led to a study of Abdel Khaliq Mahgoub, his role in the Sudanese Communist Party and his interpretation of Marxism. [4]

She has published work on the lives of displaced women living in squatter settlements, [5] as well as research on the migration of Sudanese women more generally. [6] She has researched female circumcision in Africa, in particular foregrounding the experience of indigenous women's voices. [7] She supports the need for "own voices" to be part of the critical discourse on FGM and includes other African feminist opinions in research. [8] Her research in FGM has explored the role of colonialism in its expression. [9] [10] Her work on colonial Sudan includes work on Dr Ina Beasley, who was Controller of Girls' Education in the Anglo-Sudan, 1939-49. [11]

Violence in the lives of women in Sudan is another area of Abusharaf's research, particularly within politics. [12] This study has extended to research on how violence in Darfur is discussed within Sudan, Qatar and the United States. [13] She has also written about the intersection of gender justice and religion in Sudan. [14] She has worked on interpretations of feminism within the life of the radical Mona Abul-Fadl. [15]

Abusharaf also researches relationships between Africa and the Gulf region. [16] She has published the first research into migration to pre-oil Qatar, looking to the country's history pre-1930s. [17]

She has previously been a visiting scholar in human rights at Harvard Law School. [18] She is co-editor of HAWWA: Journal of Women of the Middle East and Islamic World. [19]

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  3. ↑ Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa (1998). "War, Politics, and Religion: An Exploration of the Determinants of Southern Sudanese Migration to the United States and Canada". Northeast African Studies. 5 (1): 31–46. doi:10.1353/nas.1998.0006. ISSN   1535-6574. S2CID   145500004.
  4. ↑ Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa (2009-07-01). "Marx in the Vernacular: Abdel Khaliq Mahgoub and the Riddles of Localizing Leftist Politics in Sudanese Philosophies of Liberation". South Atlantic Quarterly. 108 (3): 483–500. doi:10.1215/00382876-2009-004. ISSN   0038-2876.
  5. ↑ Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan.
  6. ↑ Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa (2001). "Migration with a Feminine Face: Breaking the Cultural Mold". Arab Studies Quarterly. 23 (2): 61–85. ISSN   0271-3519. JSTOR   41858374.
  7. ↑ "Female Circumcision | Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf". www.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2019-12-24.
  8. ↑ Shell-Duncan, Bettina; Hernlund, Ylva (2000). Female "circumcision" in Africa: Culture, Controversy, and Change. Lynne Rienner Publishers. ISBN   978-1-55587-995-2.
  9. ↑ Abusharaf, Rogia Mustafa (2001-02-01). "Virtuous Cuts: Female Genital Circumcision in an African Ontology". Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies. 12 (1): 112–140. doi:10.1215/10407391-12-1-112. ISSN   1527-1986. S2CID   71202486.
  10. ↑ Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa (2006-09-01). ""We Have Supped So Deep in Horrors": Understanding Colonialist Emotionality and British Responses to Female Circumcision in Northern Sudan". History and Anthropology. 17 (3): 209–228. doi:10.1080/02757200600813908. ISSN   0275-7206.
  11. ↑ Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa (2010). "The Words of Ina Beasley: Glimpses from a Life in British Sudan". Hawwa. 8 (3): 317–347. doi:10.1163/156920810x549758. ISSN   1569-2078.
  12. ↑ Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa (2006-01-01). "Competing masculinities: Probing political disputes as acts of violence against women from Southern Sudan and Darfur". Human Rights Review. 7 (2): 59–74. doi:10.1007/s12142-006-1030-7. ISSN   1874-6306. S2CID   73705826.
  13. ↑ Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa (2010-10-22). "Debating Darfur in the World". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 632 (1): 67–85. doi:10.1177/0002716210378631. ISSN   0002-7162. S2CID   145629117.
  14. ↑ Banchoff, Thomas; Wuthnow, Robert (2011-03-01). Religion and the Global Politics of Human Rights. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-971107-9.
  15. ↑ Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa (2004-07-09). "Narrating Feminism: The Woman Question in the Thinking of an African Radical". Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies. 15 (2): 152–153. doi:10.1215/10407391-15-2-152. ISSN   1527-1986. S2CID   143302816.
  16. ↑ Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa; Eickelman, Dale F., eds. (2015-09-30). Africa and the Gulf Region: Blurred Boundaries and Shifting Ties. Gerlach Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1df4hs4. ISBN   978-3-940924-71-1. JSTOR   j.ctt1df4hs4.
  17. ↑ Alsudairi, Mohammed; Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa (2015). "Migration in Pre-oil Qatar: A Sketch". Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism. 15 (3): 511–521. doi:10.1111/sena.12164. ISSN   1754-9469.
  18. ↑ "Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf". www.press.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2019-12-24.
  19. ↑ Hale, Sondra; Kadoda, Gada (2016-09-14). Networks of Knowledge Production in Sudan: Identities, Mobilities, and Technologies. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 303. ISBN   978-1-4985-3213-6.
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