Prof of Politics @UCSC & Visiting Prof @OxfordCSLS. Studying the rule of law in crisis. #FirstGen from Sudan. Series Editor https://xitter.cf/t.co/j9WvvN0I6U
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I’m proud of this book I wrote. It was 9 yrs of research & courage -- fieldwork & archives in 4 countries, 142 interviews, coding, and a year studying theology. I hope it reveals how God matters to people fighting for the rule of law.
cambridge.org/inshallah
What sparked Sudan's civil war, and is there a path to peace? My interview with CNA Singapore @ChannelNewsAsia
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Putting diplomatic pressure on China & the UAE will help resolve Sudan's forgotten civil war that has displaced 11 million people. My article out today in @IPQuarterly.
NEW: To help build peace in Sudan, EU policymakers must support civil society; cut off weapons to militias; and exert diplomatic pressure on other countries, @ProfMassoud writes.
ip-quarterly.com/en/how-help…
Vibhuti Ramachandran's **Immoral Traffic** won a book award--before publication! The book is an ethnography of NGOs & India's anti-prostitution law. It's out in a few months in the @CUP_Law Cambridge Studies in Law and Society book series. cambridge.org/lawandsociety
Delighted to share that my book manuscript, "Immoral Traffic:" An Ethnography of Law, NGOs, and the Governance of Prostitution in India, has won the American Institute of Indian Studies' Joseph W. Elder Book Prize in the Indian Social Sciences. indiastudies.org/aiis-2024-b…
I spoke to a packed house in Berlin on the topic of "Islam and Politics in America Today." Thanks to the @AmericanAcademy for creating space for this scholarship. Watch here: buff.ly/3QkS3W9
"In American politics, we reached a tipping point where sharia became part of the battle over what it means to be American," said spring fellow and political scientist Mark Fathi Massoud at his talk "Islam and Politics in America Today." Watch here: buff.ly/3QkS3W9
ALT Photo: Annette Hornischer / American Academy in Berlin
ALT Photo: Annette Hornischer / American Academy in Berlin
ALT Photo: Annette Hornischer / American Academy in Berlin
It's the "worst displacement crisis” (@RESCUEorg) and “one of the worst humanitarian disasters” (@UNOCHA). Thank you @NesrineMalik for writing about Sudan, sadness, hope, and 1 year of war. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
I share this book award with many people, starting with my mother, who helped me understand the power of religion in building the rule of law -- and building peace -- something the world could use more of right now.
Congratulations to @ProfMassoud on winning the @isanet Religion and International Relations Award for the exception SHARI'A, INSHALLAH.
Use code 101990 when you order online for 30% off and free shipping at cup.org/3Ibc6lm #ISA2024
OUT OF PLACE is a new book that encourages scholars to reflect on the power of positionality in research. It's a structured process of introspection & inquiry. The book came out today. It's available as Open Access at cambridge.org/outofplace.
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Multiple UN reports cite to a "perfect storm" of tens of thousands killed, widespread gender-based violence, war crimes, malnutrition, a lack of humanitarian aid -- and more displaced children than any place on earth. This is Sudan nearing 1 year of war. news.un.org/en/story/2024/02…
This Wednesday at 13:15, I will be giving the Reza Banakar Memorial Lecture in Sweden, online and in-person @lunduniversity. Details here. lu.se/evenemang/reza-banakar…
Settling into life in Berlin for a writers residency at the @AmericanAcademy. I'm working on a book with @ProfKathieMoore on sharia, ethics, and law in the United States. 🏡📖🌄
Snippets from the new class photos today with our longtime photographer Annette Hornischer. Spring 2024 fellows: Welcome to Berlin! Curious audience: Learn more about this semester here: buff.ly/3rM6byb
Thank you to Humboldt University @BerlinLSI for hosting me this week. I enjoyed our discussion together about religion and the rule of law.
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The world's attention is elsewhere now, for very good reasons. But please do not forget Sudan, where untold horrors have taken place & little remains of Khartoum, the country's beautiful capital city on the Nile.
economist.com/middle-east-an…
In the @ImmanentFrame forum on religion, law and state building, @jaklocek shows how colonial structures still shape international relations & how foreign policy doesn't grasp the ways that religion intersects with people's multidimensional identities. tif.ssrc.org/2023/10/04/colo…
ICYMI The @ImmanentFrame forum on law, religion, and state building is up! With essays by @ProfMassoud, @HallidayTerry, Nadjma Yassari, @jaklocek, Jack Jin Gary Lee, and others to follow in the coming weeks. tif.ssrc.org/category/exchan…
My essay, "The rule of law never dies," introduces a six-week forum on the entanglements of law, religion, and state building. Organized and hosted by @ImmanentFrame. tif.ssrc.org/2023/09/19/the-…
Read this book if you care about how constitutional values & rights become social reality. Fabulous to see this out in the world, @w_k_taylor @CUP_Law
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UNDUE PROCESS by @feiyonah has earned *3* big awards: APSA-IPSA Theodore J. Lowri First Book Award, Giovanni Sartori Book Award for qualitative methods, and Juan Linz Award for the Study of Democracy & Autocracy.
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Why do dictators hold political trials? In *UNDUE PROCESS* @feiyonah shows how courts paradoxically prevent democratic dissent. Based on archival research in African contexts, this book is a big contribution to the study of courts across times & places.👌
cambridge.org/9781009197144
So much I like about this book! @YegorLazarev argues that states use legal pluralism & people use state law “even when it is foreign to them." Also, state transformation “can be brought from the bottom-up by … women.” Chapter 2 on methods & positionality is🔥.
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This essay from @Halayalkarib in @newhumanitarian moved me to tears.
“Sudan is our home,” writes Al Karib, “and we are committed to staying.”
#HERO @Sihanet @siha_journal
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This is a big moment of celebration for the Somali people and for the @TempletonPrize. Congratulations to @EdnaAdan! This prize shows how people use their faith to do good in the world.
BREAKING: @EdnaAdan, a nurse-midwife and healthcare advocate who has worked courageously to change cultural, religious, and medical norms surrounding women’s health in East Africa, was announced today as the winner of the 2023 #TempletonPrize.
Despite the need for housing, @ucsc is building more asphalt & parking than housing on its beautiful East Meadow. My letter published in @scsentinel today.
ALT Letter to the editor, Santa Cruz Sentinel, May 7, 2023 Thank you for your May 3 Editorial on Santa Cruz’s housing dilemmas. What’s missing is that UCSC plans to build just 140 low-density units across 12 acres of land on the East Meadow site. This means that more of the East Meadow site will become asphalt and parking than actual living spaces for student families. These new parking lots will bring hundreds more cars into Santa Cruz, slowing our buses and making our city less safe for pedestrians and cyclists. The space could accommodate hundreds more units in a transit- oriented development that positions student housing toward bike paths, walkways and bus stops, instead of toward parking spaces. If UCSC cared about student housing, then it would not squander the precious East Meadow to hastily designed sprawl. UCSC is telling the world that it values its parking spaces more than its housing, and even more than its unique natural beauty. Mark Massoud, UC Santa Cruz Professor