LGBTQI issues; child abuse; sexual abuse/assault; gender-based violence/domestic violence; child soldiers; forced marriage; human trafficking; FGM/FGC; Likelihood of destitution or homelessness; ethnic, religious, or tribal discrimination or persecution; forced conscription/refoulment; ex-combatant reintegration; land tenure disputes;land issues; risk of torture or political persecution; risk from state actors, risk from non-state actors; risk of retaliation; sufficiency of protection; possibility of safe internal relocation; healthcare access
The Expert has written numerous asylum reports.
CURRENT RESEARCH
“Thou Shall Build Your City with Agreement”: The Rise and Fall of Tugba, an Islamic Town in North-West Africa” (submitted for publication at African Studies Review)
“Slave experience and Islamic legal culture in 17-19th century Sahara”
“Preaching in the Sahara: Post-Islamism/post-Secularism in Mauritania in the aftermaths of the Arab Spring” (under review in an edited volume by Ann MacDougal)
“You Would Have worshiped me: Genealogies of French Islam 1790-1850"
DISSERTATION AND MONOGRAPHS
2020 Colonizing Shari‘a: Islamic and Customary Law, the French Secular, and the Zwaya Ascendency in Mauritania, c.1900-1940
2018 Millennials in the Sahara: A History of Mauritania from the earliest origins to the 20th century (Arabic)
PUBLISHED ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS
“Social Organization, Culture, and Ritual,” with Abbass Braham and Robin Chapdelaine, in Bloomsbury Cultural History of Slavery & Human Trafficking, Vol. 5, edited by Henrice Altink (forthcoming)
“Owning and Resisting: Widows in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Mauritania”