Mark Fathi Massoud
@ProfMassoud
Prof of Politics @UCSC & Visiting Prof @OxfordCSLS. Studying the rule of law in crisis. #FirstGen from Sudan. Series Editor https://t.co/j9WvvN0I6U
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http://people.ucsc.edu/mmassoud 28-04-2011 06:26:55
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It's the 'worst displacement crisis” (IRC - International Rescue Committee) and “one of the worst humanitarian disasters” (@UNOCHA). Thank you Nesrine Malik for writing about Sudan, sadness, hope, and 1 year of war. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
This Wednesday at 13:15, I will be giving the Reza Banakar Memorial Lecture in Sweden, online and in-person Lund University. Details here. lu.se/evenemang/reza…
Settling into life in Berlin for a writers residency at the The American Academy in Berlin. I'm working on a book with Kathleen Moore on sharia, ethics, and law in the United States. 🏡📖🌄
Thank you to Humboldt University LSI Berlin for hosting me this week. I enjoyed our discussion together about religion and the rule of law.
In the The Immanent Frame forum on religion, law and state building, Jason Klocek 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/col…
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 The Immanent Frame. 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, Whitney Taylor Cambridge University Press - Law
UNDUE PROCESS by Fiona Shen Bayh 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.
cambridge.org/9781009197144
So much I like about this book! Egor Lazarev 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🔥.
Cambridge University Press - Politics
This essay from Hala Y Alkarib in The New Humanitarian moved me to tears.
“Sudan is our home,” writes Al Karib, “and we are committed to staying.”
#HERO SIHA Network Women in Islam
thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/first-…
Despite the need for housing, UC Santa Cruz is building more asphalt & parking than housing on its beautiful East Meadow. My letter published in Santa Cruz Sentinel today.
Thank you Cambridge University Press - Law for making the Introduction & Chapter 1 LAWFARE AND WARFARE IN SUDAN free at this time. Download by May 10th.
My article SUDAN'S RULE OF LAW REVOLUTION from Current History lays out the bigger context – historical, political, religious, legal – that has shaped this week's events in #Sudan . Free PDF access from University of California Press here:
online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory…