1. Books:
2003 with Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed, M. A. M. Salih and Idris S. El-Hassan: Anthropology in the Sudan: a reflection by Sudanese anthropologist. Utrecht: International Books.
2004 a Sticky Labels or Rich Ambiguities? Diaspora and challenges of homemaking for Somalis and Sudanese in Norway. Bergen: BRIC/University of Bergen.
2005b An annotated bibliography of social research on Darfur. Bergen: BRIC/University of Bergen
2006c with Leif Manger (eds.) Diasporas within and without Africa: dynamism, homogeneity, variation. Uppsala: The Nordic Africa Institute.
2015a (co-editor, with M. Abdul-Jalil) Past, present and future: fifty years of anthropology in Sudan. Bergen: Chr. Michelsens Institute.
2015b (co-editor, with B. Casciarri and F. Ireton), Multidimensional changes in Sudan 1989-2011: Reshaping livelihoods, political and identity conflicts in Sudan. New York: Berghahn Books.
2. Journal articles
2002a “A discipline asserting its identity and place: displacement, aid and anthropology in Sudan.” Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review, 18(1): 63-96.
2003a “Unni Wikan and multicultural challenges.” Samtiden, 2: 40-51.
2006 “Resource-based conflicts in the Sudan.” Development, 49(3):101-105.
2005 تحديات اعادة توطين النازحين بدارفور ودور المجتمع المدني. كتابات سودانية 31: 39-46
2007a “Some aspects of cultural adaptation among internally displaced persons in Khartoum” (Arabic), Bulletin of Sudanese Studies, 13(2): 67-86.
2007b “The emerging Sudanese diaspora: challenges and potentials for post-war reconstruction,” Journal of Future Studies, 1(2): 1-21.
2007d Book review: “Understanding the crisis in Darfur: listening to Sudanese voices,” Abdelghaffar M. Ahmed and Leif Manger (eds.). Bergen: Bric, 2006. Women, vol. 23, 35-37.
2008 “Diaspora, state and the crisis of Muslim refugees,” Journal of Middle East and African Studies, 9(5): 1-22.
2009 “Aid and traditional leadership in the Red Sea.” Societal Studies, 3: 197-216.
2009a “The question of identity in the Sudan: new dimensions for an old problem,” The Maghreb Review, 34 (2-3): 181-194.
2009b “The relationship between sedentary and nomadic peoples in the context of state policies and internationalization,” Nomadic Peoples, 13(1): 145-162
2011 “Migration of highly skilled Sudanese: gain or drain?’ Sudan Journal for Economic and Social Studies, (9)1: 79-94.
2011 “Contested legitimacy: civil society and peace building in Kassala,” Discourse, 1(1): 72-89
2012 “Social and policy aspects of gender and migration in Sudan, ” The Ahfad Journal, 29(2): 25-37
2013 “Homemaking as a transnational practice by Somalis and Sudanese in Norway,” (accepted) Sudan Journal for Economic and Social Studies, 10(1)
3. Book chapters
2013a “Six years after Eastern Sudan Pease Agreement: an assessment,” in Gunnar Sørbø and Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed (eds), Sudan divided: continuing conflict in a contested state, pp. 142-160. New York: Palgrave McMillan.
2013b “الوضع الإنساني في دارفور ومستقبل النازحين واللاجئين” ، دارفور: حصاد الأزمة بعد عقد من الزمان. تحرير عبد الوهاب الأفندي وسيدي أجمد ولد أحمد سالم. مركز الجزيرة للدراسات والدار العربية للعلوم، 2013، ص 189-212.
2013c ” النازحين في الخرطوم” سكان السودان وتحدي المستقبل. تحرير حسن أحمد عبد العاطي. الخرطوم، مجلس السكان وبرنامج الأمم المتحدة للسكان، 2013، ص 238-255.
2011 “From the country to the town,” in John Ryle et al (eds.) The Sudan handbook, pp. 63-69. Oxford: Jamaes Currey.
2010 “A Sudanese anthropologist doing fieldwork in Norway: some critical reflections,” in Nefissa Naguib and Bert de Vries (eds): Movements of people in time and space, pp. 113-131. Bergen: Bric.
2009a “The role of UN in peace building in Sudan,” in Hassan Abdel Ati and Galal el-Din El-Tayeb (eds.) Peace in Sudan…so near so far? Pp. 24-37. Khartoum and Nairobi: EDGE and Heinrich Böll Foundation.
2009b “Locating responsibilities: national and international responses to the crisis in Darfur,” in Salah Hassan and Carina Ray (eds), Darfur and the crisis of governance: a critical reader, pp. 285-296. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
2009c “The National Congress Party and the Darfurian armed groups,” in David Black and Paul Williams (eds.), The international politics of mass atrocities: the case of Darfur, pp27-48. London: Rutledge.
2008 “IDPs in Sudan and post-war scenarios,” in Katarzyan Grabska and Lyla Mehta (eds), Forced displacement: why rights matter? Pp. 139-158. London: Palgrave McMillan.
2006a “Introduction: Diaspora within and without Africa: homogeneity, heterogeneity, variation,” in Leif Manger and Munzoul Assal (eds) Diaspora within and without Africa: homogeneity, heterogeneity, variation, pp. 7-31. Uppsala: The Nordic Africa Institute.
2006b “Somalis and Sudanese in Norway: religion, politics, clan/ethnicity in the diaspora,” in Leif Manger and Munzoul Assal (eds) Diaspora within and without Africa: homogeneity, heterogeneity, variation, 165-196. Uppsala: The Nordic Africa Institute.
2005a “A source of difference or a repository of support: Islam and the lives of Somalis and Sudanese in Norway,” in Adogame, Afe and Cordula Weiβköppel (eds.) Religion in the context of African migration, pp. 191-216. Bayreuth: Bayreuth African Studies Series.
2005b “Somalis and Sudanese in Norway and the question of religious authenticity,” in Markussen, Irene and Richard Natvig (eds.), Islamer i Norge, pp. 63-82. Uppsala: Swedish Science Press.
2005c “Economy and polity in Gedarif: a symbiotic encounter,” in Miller, Catherine et al (eds.) Land, ethnicity and political legitimacy in Eastern Sudan, pp. 173-202. Cairo: CEDEJ/DSRI.
2005d “Behind the masks: protracted marginalization in Darfur,” in Hassan Abdel Ati (ed.) Sudan: the challenge of peace and redressing marginalization in Sudan, pp. 24-38. Khartoum: EDGE and the National Civic Forum.
1998 “القبيلة والقبلية والصراع في السودان: مأزق المفاهيم والتناولات،” في كتاب رؤي حول النزاعات القبلية في السودان. تحرير ادم الزين محمد والطيب ابراهيم وادي، ص 71-93. دار جامعة الخرطوم للنشر.
1996 “Subsistence economy, environmental awareness and resource management in Um Kaddada Province, Northern Darfur State,” in Managing scarcity: human adaptation in east African drylands, 127-139, edited by A/Ghaffar M. Ahmed and Hassan Abdel Ati. Addis Ababa: OSSREA.
4. Published Research Reports
2006a Do they have a choice? Factors pulling Somalis to Norway. Published online: (www.landinfo.no/asset/507/1/507_1.pdf)
2006b Whose Rights Count? National and International Responses to the Rights of IDPs in the Sudan. Brighton: Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalization and Poverty, University of Sussex, UK. This report is available at the following site: (http://www.migrationdrc.org/publications/research_reports/IDPS-DRC-AUC-FRMS-ASSAL.pdf)
2007 Co-author: Eastern Sudan: challenges facing the implementation of peace agreement in Gedaref State. Situation Report, Institute of Security Studies, Pretoria.
2008 Is it the fault of NGOs alone? aid and dependency in eastern Sudan. CMI Working Paper No. 5 (available at www.cmi.no)
2011a City limits: urbanization and vulnerability in Sudan, Khartoum case study
http://www.odi.org.uk/resources/download/5295.pdf
2011b Nationality and citizenship questions in Sudan after the southern Sudan referendum vote
http://www.cmi.no/publications/file/3933-nationality-and-citizenship-questions-in sudan.pdf
2011c Conflict induced migration and post-referendum challenges. CARIM Analytic and Synthetic Note No. 75. Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute.
2011d Gender and migration in Sudan: socio-political aspects. CARIM Analytic and Synthetic Note No. 5. Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute.
Grant writing and obtaining funding for projects
| Project title | Funding Institution | Amount | Date |
| NORHED Borderlands dynamics: anthropological capacity building in eastern African Universities | Norwegian Agency for International Development (NORAD) | $ 3,000,000 (three million US dollars) | 2013 |
| Sudan RESSESA (PhD methodology training) | OSSREA | $ 19,500 (nineteen thousand and five hundred US dollars) | 2011 |
| Sudan RESSESA (PhD methodology training) | OSSREA | $ 17,000 (seventeen thousand US dollars | 2012 |
| Sudan RESSESA(PhD methodology training) | OSSREA | $ 15,700 (fifteen thousands and seven hundred US dollars) | 2013 |
| International Conference on Population Mobility in Sudan, Faculty of Economic and Social Studies, University of Khartoum. | UNFPA, Beirut Office | $ 4,500 (four thousand five hundred US dollars) | 2009 |
Completed and on-going research projects
1. Annotated bibliography of social research on Darfur (2004-2005)
Funding:
The Ford Foundation
Duration:
1 year
Outcome:
Completed: A published volume (Bergen: Bric/The University of Bergen 2006- See publications).
2. Rights based approaches to forced migration (2004-2006)
Funding:
DRC (University of Sussex, UK)
Duration:
2 years
Outcome:
1. Completed: A report: Whose rights count: national and international policy responses to the question of IDPs in the Sudan. Published by the University of Sussex, UK (see published reports).
2. Completed: A book chapter (IDps in Sudan and post-war scenarios), published (June 2008) in Lyla Mehta and Katarzyna Grabska (eds.) Forced displacement: why rights matter. London: Palgrave McMillan.
3. Macro-micro issues of peace-building in the Sudan – monitoring international assistance in eastern Sudan (2005-2008)- extended 2010-2012. My focus was Eastern Sudan.
Funding:
Christian Michelson Institute, Bergen
Duration:
5 years
Outcome:
1. Supervised two MA students – completed
2. Two reports (see above)
3. Book chapter (see above)
