SSA 32nd Conference Program

G r e a t e r S u d a nC r o s s r o a d s t o t h e F u t u r e

32nd Annual ConferenceSudan Studies Association

May 24-26, 2013University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania

Acknowledgments

Sudan Studies Association would like to express its thanks to the University of Pennsylvania, it’s faculty, staff, and students who came together to make this meeting exceptional. Our program has been greatly enhanced in many ways by the contributions of the University of Pennsylvania.

The SSA acknowledges especially the contributions made by UPenn sponsors; Africa Center, Center for Africana Studies, and Middle East Center.

Special thanks to Dr. Ali Ali-Dinar, the Associate Director of the African Studies Center and the Local Host of the 32nd Sudan Studies Association meeting. We also thank Faye Patterson, the Africa Center Program Coordinator for her work on room rentals and catering.

Sudan Studies Association would also like to show gratitude to Arizona State Uni-versity, SSA’s new home. Special thanks to the School of Social Transformation’s Director, faculty, staff, and students for their continued support to its conferences.

ASU Conference Team

Dr. Abdullahi Gallab, African and African American Studies/Religious Studies (SSA President-Elect and Program Chair)

Dr. Souad T. Ali, Head of Classics and Middle East Studies (SSA Board Member)

Egbet Abraha, African and African American Studies/Women and Gender Studies Undergrad (Program and Conference Coordinating Assistant)

We also thank all our presenters and attendees for supporting SSA, each other, and the advancement on Sudan Studies.

Sudan Studies Association 32nd Annual Conference

May 24-26, 2013

University of Pennsylvania

http://sudan.shprs.asu.edu

Greater Sudan : Crossroads to the Future

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Friday, May 24, 20139:00-12:00 Open Registration (2nd Floor, Houston Hall Lobby)

10:00-10:45 Welcome & Opening Remarks (Class of ‘49, 230) Dr. Ali Ali-Dinar, Local Host Professor Jeffrey Kallberg, Associate Dean for Arts and Letters, School of Arts and Sciences Dr. Lee Cassanelli, Director of Africa Center Dr. Abdullahi Gallab, Program Chair Dr. Randall Fegley, President 11:00-12:30 Honoring a Lifetime of Distinguished Scholarship: Dr. Sondra Hale, University of California, Los Angeles (Class of ‘49, 230) Running Out of Poems? An Auto- ethnography of Sudan, Part 1

Chair: Dr. Souad Ali, Arizona State University

12:30-1:45 Lunch/Board Meeting (Class of ‘49, 230)

2:00-3:30 COnCURRenT SeSSiOn 1 Panel 1: South Sudan’s economy, external Relations, and Prospects for the Future (Ben Franklin, 218)

Chair: Dr. Benaiah Yongo-Bure, Kettering University (Michigan) Presenters: Dr. Laura N. Beny, University of Michigan Law School South Sudan and the EAC – Implications for Sudan-South Sudan Relations

Dr. Ayok Chol, University of Juba (South Sudan) The Management of the Financial and Material Resources of South Sudan: A Case Study of Oil/Customs Revenues and Equitable Land Use

Dr. Lako Tongun, Pitzer College (California) Political Economy of Oil and Frontier Capitalism in South Sudan

Friday, May 24, 2013


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Friday, May 24, 2013 Panel 2: Sufism, Saints and Shrines (Class of ‘49, 230) Chair: Dr. Lee Cassanelli, University of Pennsylvania Presenters: Dr. Neil McHugh, Fort Lewis College (Colorado) Metropolitan Scholar: al-Amin al-Darir Katie J. Hickerson, University of Pennsylvania Saintly Shrines and Statues: Martyrdom and Monumentation in Sudan

Daisuke Maruyama, Kyoto University (Japan) Between the Principle and the Practice: The External Policy ofSufisminContemporarySudan

Panel 3: identity, Diaspora and War (Golkin, 223) Chair: Dr. Mehmet Darakcioglu, University of Pennsylvania

Presenters: Dr. Adam Mahamat, University of Maroua (Cameroon) Sudanese Diasporas in Chad, Cameroon and Nigeria: Settlements, Activities and Government Supports Dr. Abdu Mukhtar Musa, Omdurman Islamic University (Sudan) Post-conflictStateBuilding:TheCaseofSudan(s) Aly Verjee, Senior Researcher at Rift Valley Institute (UK) Yellow Fever in Darfur: An Assessment of the 2012 Outbreak

3:45-5:15 Art and Activism in the Sudans (Class of ‘49, 230) Chair: Anyieth Dawol

Presenters: Azza Satti, Curator Sudan at the Referendum research exhibition

Elshafei Dafalla, MFA, Artist and Human Rights Activist Harbor:CiviliansinSudanConflict Khalid Kodi, Boston College and Massachusetts College of Art and Design of Fine Art Sand and Salt and Other Stories

5:30-7:00 Reception (Class of ‘49, 230)

Friday, May 24, 2013


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9:00-10:30 COnCURRenT SeSSiOn 2

Panel 4: The Roots of Conflict in the Sudans (Bennett 13) Chair: Dr. Jay O’Brien, Purdue University (Indiana)

Presenters: Marc J. Cohen, Oxfam America/Johns Hopkins University (Maryland) and Abdel Monium K. Osman, Tufts University (Massachusetts) Agricultural Change, Land, and Violence in Darfur Noah Gottschalk, Oxfam America Cattle Raids and AK-47s: How an International Arms Trade Treaty Can Help Reduce Violence in South Sudan Omayma Gutbi, Oxfam America Gender, Displacement, and Livelihoods in Darfur Gordon Lam, Oxfam Great Britain Reforming the Security System in South Sudan

Panel 5: Violence, Security, nation, and State Building (Bennett 15) Chair: Dr. Lako Tongun, Pitzer College (California)

Presenters: Dr. Christopher Zambakari, Northeastern University, Boston Political Violence, Citizenship, and Democratic Nation-Building in South Sudan Michelle Legassicke, University of Waterloo (Canada) Cyclical Violence in Jonglei State: The Deadly Shift in the Practice of Cattle Raiding Naomi Pendle, London School of Economics (United Kingdom) “They are now Community Police and not titweng”: Contesting The Legitimacy to Use Violence in South Sudan Through The Renegotiation of Identity of Non-State Security Providers

Saturday, May 25, 2013



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Panel 6: Using Organizational Risk Assessment (ORA) Software to Study Sudan Networks and Conflicts (Bennett 419)

Chair: Aly Verjee, Senior Researcher at Rift Valley Institute

Presenters: Dr. Kevin DeJesus, Rhode Island College and MURI Project Al-Qaeda in Darfur: Dynamic Network Analysis and the Exploration of an Under-explained Presence of Shadowy Terror Networks in Darfur

Dr. Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Rhode Island College and MURI Project Islamist Networks in Sudan: International Connections from the Maghreb to Malaysia

Dr. Richard Lobban, Rhode Island College and MURI Project, UsingORAModelingtoUnderstandtheIntersectionofConflicts in Sudan and Across the Sahel

Chuck Galli, Temple University (Pennsylvania) and MURI Project, IslamismandConflictintheSahel:HowNetworks,Ideologies,and Interests Can Create and Diffuse Violence


Panel 7: Politics of Violence and Torture (Bennett 13)

Chair: Dr. Sondra Hale, University of California, Los Angeles

Presenters: Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim, Scholars at Risk, New York University Truth Medicines: One Option to Stop Torture? Al-ShafieMohamed




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Panel 8: imagining of a new nation: How identity and Daily Practices are Renegotiated and Recreated (Bennett 419) Chair: Dr. Ellen Gruenbaum, Purdue University (Indiana)

Presenters: MaryBeth Chrostowsky, University of Kentucky Asylum’s Role in the Future of South Sudan: Tensions Between Formal Education, Pastoralism, and Agricultural Production. Christian Oyat Doll, University of California, Davis “ThenWeWillBenefit”:UtopicImaginingsandtheEnactmentof Sovereignty in Ramciel, South Sudan

Brendan Tuttle, Temple University of Kentucky Don’t Let the Leader Touch the Ground: Childhood and the Heaviness of Rule in Bor, South Sudan.

Sheila D. Vinton, University of Kentucky Food and Transnationalism in the Sudanese Diaspora Panel 9: Gender Relations and Humanitarian Aid (Bennett 15)

Chair: Dr. Christopher Zambakari, Northeastern University, Boston

Presenters: Dr. Nada Mustafa Ali, Clark University Borders, Bridges and Cross Roads: Interrogating ‘Outstanding Post-Referendum Issues’ Between Sudan and South Sudan from a Women and Gender’s Perspective Sarah Cleto Rial Building Pathways to Sustainable Peace in Sudan and South Sudan: The Case of Sisterhood for Peace Initiative of My Sister’s Keeper Soledad Herrero, John Hopkins University (Washington DC) Dilemmas of Humanitarian Assistance: Lessons From Sudan

12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:30 Meet the Author: Dr. Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban (Bennett 419) Shari’aandIslamisminSudan:Conflict,LawandSocialTransformation Chair: Dr. Ismail H. Abdalla, College of William and Mary (Virginia)




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Panel 10: Darfur, 10 Years On: news and Views (Bennet 13)

Chair: Dr. Eve Troutt-Powell, University of Pennsylvania

Presenters: Dr. Anne Bartlett, University of San Francisco Darfur10YearsOn:AChangingLandscapeofConflict?

Ahmed H. Adam, Columbia University Darfur Peace Processes: What Went Wrong? A View of an Insider Mohamed H. El-kareem, University of Sharjah (United Arab Emirates) TVNewsCoverageoftheConflictandCrisisinDarfur:A Comparative Content Analysis of ALJAZEERA, CNN, and SUDAN TV

Panel 11: Mutual Coexistence and Border Relations (Bennet 15)

Chair: Dr. Laura N. Beny, University of Michigan Law School

Presenters: Dr. Benaiah Yongo-Bure, Kettering University (Michigan) Abyei and Border Settlements and Future Relations between the Two Sudans

William Pay Tuoy-Giel, Sudanese Community Association of Arizona The Need for Peaceful Co-existence between the Two Sudans “A Citizen Perspective”

Sara de Simone, Università degli Studi di Napoli l’Orientale (Italy) Internal Borders and Community Disputes among Unity State Counties




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Panel 12: Secularism, Shari’a and Social Movements (Bennet 419)

Chair: Dr. Ali Ali-Dinar, University of Pennsylvania

Presenters: Dr. Mahgoub El-Tigani Mahmoud, Tennessee State University, Secularism and Shari’a Challenges before a Crossroads Sudan

Dr. Jay O’Brien and Dr. Ellen Gruenbaum, Purdue University (Indiana) Stories of Sudan: Why Narratives Matter Yuko Tobinai, Sophia University (Japan) A Study of the Revival Movement in Greater Sudan: From the Perspective of the Kuku’s Migration

4:30-5:00 Break

5:00-7:30 Keynote Address by Jon Temin and Dinner Banquet (South America Room) Why was Sudan’s 2011 Referendum Peaceful, and What Does it Mean for the Two Countries Today? Chair: Dr. Randall Fegley, Pennsylvania State University



‘ ‘The SSA Bulletin is entering its 32nd year as the major means of communication and dissemination of scholarly articles with our membership. With the current issue, which we have recently sent out, SSA Bulletin enters a new era, beginning the eventual shift to mainly online distribution of the Bulletin. This issue begins the period of this transition and we ask you to contribute to the Bulletin by sending to the Editor, Dr. Carolyn Fleuhr-Lobban, your articles, letters, and suggestions.Contact:[email protected]


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Jon Temin is the director of the United States Institute of Peace's Horn of Africa program, which focuses on helping to end Sudan, South Sudan and Somalia’s multipleconflictsandpreventnewviolence.Mr.Teminalsofollowsdevelopmentselsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa, with a current focus on Mali. He travels to Sudan, South Sudan, and other countries in the region frequently to assess developments andmeetwithgovernmentofficials,civilsocietyleadersanddiplomats.Mr.Temin’scommentary on Africa issues has been featured by, among other outlets, the BBC, Al Jazeera, The Washington Post, ForeignPolicy.com, Voice of America and Nation-alPublicRadio.HehasalsotestifiedbeforetheUSSenateCommitteeonForeignRelations on Sudan and South Sudan.

Prior to joining USIP in January 2009, Mr. Temin spent fiveyearswiththenon-governmentalorganizationCHF International designing development and peace-building programs throughout Africa and elsewhere. He has working experience in more than a dozen countries across Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Mr. Temin is the author of numerous articles focusingonAfrica,conflictandgovernancewhichhave appeared in, among other publications, African Affairs, Review of African Political Economy, Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, and the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. He has also authored multiple reports for USIP. Mr. Temin holds a B.A. from Swarthmore College and an M.A. in International Relations from The Johns Hopkins University School of Ad-vanced International Studies. He is a former Fulbright Fellow in Ghana, where he worked with the Ghana Center for Democratic Development on monitoring media coverage of the 2000 elections.

Keynote Speaker: Jon Temin, Director of South and South Sudan Program, United States institute of Peace



USIPistheindependent,nonpartisanconflictmanagementcenter created by Congress to prevent and mitigate inter-nationalconflictwithoutresortingtoviolence.USIPworksto save lives, increase the government’s ability to deal with conflictsbeforetheyescalate,reducegovernmentcosts,andenhance our national security.


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Panel 13: elites, Jallaba and identity (Ben Franklin, 218)

Chair: Dr. Bakry Eljack, University of Delaware Presenters: Dr.HafizAhmedAbdallaIbrahim Economic Elites and Financial Networks in a Globalized World: InterplayofSocial,PoliticalandFinancialInfluenceinSudan’s Modern Economy

Dr. Ali B. Ali-Dinar, University of Pennsylvania Incarnating an “Arab”, “Abbasid” and “J’aali” Identity: Captivity in Omdurman and its Impact on Sultan Ali Dinar of Darfur, 1894-1916

Terence Walz, Independent Scholar Asyut and the Darfur Jallaba

Panel 14: Sudan and its neighbors (Class of ‘49, 230)

Chair: Dr. Mahgoub El-Tigani Mahmoud, Tennessee State University

Presenters: Mohamed Yasin Khalifa, Harvard University ICC Languages Policy: Indigenous Indiscipline in Darfur Case

Dr. Belete Belachew Yihun, Jimma University (Ethiopia) A Relation Shrouded in Mistrust: What the Future Holds for Ethiopia and Sudan?

Lourdes Patricia Iñiguez-Torres, El Colegio de México (Mexico) Republic of Sudan and Egypt on the Nile: National Challenges in the Context of the Arab Spring

Panel 15: new Discoveries in Sudanese Archaeology (Golkin, 223)

Dr. Richard Lobban

Sunday, May 26, 2013


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Panel 16: Countries of the Horn: Politics and Security (Golkin, 223) Chair: Dr. Carolyn Fleuhr-Lobban Presenters: Dr. Ayok Chol, University of Juba (South Sudan) TheGrowthoftheRootsofInternalConflictsinSouthSudan:Their Current Manifestations and Suggested Way Forward

Marco Boggero, John Hopkins University (Washington DC) Dynamics of Private Security in Weak States: Sudan and Somalia

Dr.El-ShafieMohamedEl-Mekki,UniversityofKhartoum(Sudan) Sudan̶WestRelations:HowExpediencyandInterestshadthe Upper Hand Over Principles and Values in International Politics?

Panel 17: Development, its Debates and Consequences (Ben Franklin, 218)

Chair: Dr. Izzeldin Bakhit, Stayer University Presenters: Tarig Mustafa M. Ali, Gender and Peace Program Manager Norwegian Church Aid - Sudan FacilitatingSocialChangeThroughtheUseof(Community CapacityEnhancement-ThroughCommunityConversation)

Nisrin Elamin, Stanford University (California) Agricultural Dreams and Denials: Examining the Rhetoric and Politics of Large-scale Land Acquisitions in Sudan

Tamer Abd El-kreem, University of Bayreuth (Germany) Demystifying the Dams’ Regime in Sudan: Sudan Needs to Build Trust before Building a Dam




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Panel 18: Past and Contemporary Aspects of Gender and ethnicity (Class of ‘49, 230) Chair: Dr. Abdel Rahman Ibrahim, Boston Theological Institute

Presenters: Dr. Ismail H. Abdalla, College of William and Mary (Virginia) Concept of time Among the Hamar people of Western Kordofan

Dr. Souad T. Ali, Arizona State University The Complexity of Sudanese Identity in Buthaina Khidr Mekki’s Writing: A Study of Hujul Min Shawk Mohamed K. Khalil, Freelance Linguist, Nubian Language Society (NLS) and Shadia Abdo Rabo, Archaeologist and Curator Archaeological Evidence of Feminine ornaments and Their Continuation in the Contemporary Nubian Cultures of Today

11:45-1:00 Presidential Address and Lunch Banquet (Bodek Lounge, 100) Dr. Randall Fegley, Pennsylvania State University

Chair: Dr. Abdullahi Gallab, Arizona State University


Panel 19: Political ideologies, Dictatorship, and State institutions (Ben Franklin, 218)

Chair: Dr. Abdel Magid Bob, Independent Scholar Presenters: Dr. Izzeldin Bakhit, Strayer University (Virginia) The Sudanese Political Predicament and the Lack of Evolution of Political Institutions in Sudan

Dr. Mohamed Elmahdi Bushra, University of Khartoum (Sudan) The Contemporary Novel: A Chronicle of Collapse

Dr. Abdel Rahman Ibrahim, Boston Theological Institute Use of Ideological Analysis to Understand Underdevelopment and Dictatorship in the Sudan




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Panel 20: On Liberation (Class of ‘49, 230)

Chair: Dr. Anne Bartlett, University of San Francisco

Presenters: Dr. Bakry Eljack, University of Delaware What Lessons could Sudanese Activists Learn from the Arab Spring?

Dr. Anita Fábos, Clark University (Massachusetts) Mapping Identity Through Sound: Sudanese Music in the Diaspora

Dr. Ellen Gruenbaum, Purdue University (Indiana) Silence and Non-silence on Female Circumcision: Sondra Hale’s ‘Ethnographic Residuals’ and Feminist Struggles Panel 21: Self-determination, Liberation Struggle, and Collective Memories (Golkin, 223)

Chair: William Pay Tuoy-Giel, Sudanese Community Association of Arizona

Presenters: Christopher Tounsel, University of Michigan ‘Ye are a Chosen People’: Biblical Rhetoric and National Liberation in Southern Sudan, 1955-1967

Tarnjeet Kaur Kang, University of Illinois A Proposal for a Community Self- Determination Framework in South Sudan

Margret Otto “Two Countries – Two Memories?” Constructions of Individual and Collective Memories in Sudan and South Sudan New Border – New Countries?

3:00-4:15 Sudan: Whither (Round Table in Arabic) (Class of ‘49, 230) Chair: Hashim M. Salih Presenters: Dr. Abdel Magid Bob Sidiq Abdelhadi Ahmed H. Adam Ahmed Adam Shaza Bella Salah Shoaib


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4:30-5:15 Business Meeting (Class of ‘49, 230)

5:15-7:45 Sudanese Musical night, Organized by Philadelphia Community (Class of ‘49, 230)

*ArtExhibitsbyKhalidKodiandAl-ShafieMohamidwillbeavailableforviewingthroughout the duration of the Conference.


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Greater Sudan received an extra amount of attention during the last half century inpublicpoliticalcirclesandfromscholarlyactors.Partofthatattentionreflectsandcampaigns the relationship between the theories and ijtihad of academic pursuit, the phenomenon of post-colonial world, and the complexity of realities and challenges of post-colonial discourses, concerns, and for producing a better world. Building upon serious scholarly studies, Sudanese conversations, debates and dialogues of past events in addition to forums, and conferences, many scholars, politicians and intellectualworkerscontinuedtoreflectonwhichwaysthegreaterSudanwouldgo.This conference is an attempt to look even deeper into this phenomenon by examin-ing the intersections between past present and future of greater Sudan. As we said last year, we will say this year also, that Sudan Studies Association, in its second conference after the split of the country into two Sudans, welcomes the opportunity to initiate the future of Sudan studies by revisiting this gigantic corpus of existing knowledge, and by being the primary academic forum for scholars to share their latestworkinthefieldofGreaterSudanStudies.TheGreaterSudanexperienceandits developments have not just encouraged studies of the past of this greater human experience; they also open the door wider to scholars from all disciplines, intellec-tualsandknowledgeworkersthepossibilityofarrivingatanew,andmorerefined,understanding of Greater Sudan, its people, human experience, institutions of power and their entanglements with time, place and the world.

Former Sudan Studies Association Presidents1981-82 Richard A. Lobban

1982-83 Ahmed El-Bashir

1983-84 James Hudson

1984-85 C. Fluehr-Lobban

1985-86 David Sconyers

1986-87 James Sultan

1987-88 Jay Spaulding

1988-89 Ismail Abdallah

1989-90 Constance Berkley

1990-91 C. Fluehr-Lobban

1991-92 Milton Coughenour

1992-94 M I Shoush

1994-96NelsonKasfir

1996-98 Ahmed El-Bashir

1998-00 Ann Lesch

2000-02 Abdallahi Ali Ibrahim

2003-05 Michael Kevane

2005-07 Ali B. Ali Dinar

2007-09 Beniah Yongo-Bure

2009-2011 Stephanie Beswick

2011-2013 Randall Fegley, current

2013-2015 Abdullahi Gallab

Contact:SSA Program Chair Abdullahi GallabSchool of Social TransformationTEL:(330)554-3693|email:[email protected]://sudan.shprs.asu.edu/

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