Gulf Research Meeting
Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf
GRM 2014 Workshop: Gulf-Africa Relations: Past and Present Trends (Sponsored by Georgetown University SFS-Q)
Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Edmund Walsh School for Foreign Service, Georgetown University-Qatar and a Senior Fellow at Dartmouth College Anthropology Department and the Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding also at Dartmouth, USA. She is the author of “Wanderings: Sudanese Migrants and Exiles in North America” (Cornell U. P. 2002), “Female 4 Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives” (University of Pennsylvania Press 2006), “Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan” (University of Chicago Press 2009) and editor of “What is Left of the Left” (Duke University Press 2011), and “Gender Justice: the Predicament and the Promise” (2011 Brill Journals). In addition to multiple chapters in referred university publications and articles and reviews, she is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled “Darfur Allegory,” which engages discussions on Darfur mediation in Qatar. She also authored a paper on “Qatar Mobility and Migration” (forthcoming) and is involved in ethnographic research on Qatari myths, folklore, and ethnomusicology. She teaches courses on Gulf societies: Ethnography, Historiography and Politics and African Studies
