Selected Publications

“Please Forget Democracy and Justice: Eritrean and the Powers of Humor.”
American Ethnologist Vol 40 (2):300-309, May 2013.

“Civil Society and Cyberspace: Reflections on Dehai, Asmarino and Awate.”
Africa Today Vol 60(2):20-36, Winter 2013.

“Diaspora, Cyberspace and Political Imagination: the Eritrean Diapora Online.”
Global Networks 6(2):161-179, 2006.

“Eritrea On-line: Diaspora, Cyberspace, and the Public Sphere.”
American Ethnologist 32(4):660-675, 2005.

“Eritrea Goes Global: Reflections on Nationalism in a Transnational Era.”
Cultural Anthropology 19(1):3-25, 2004.

“From Warriors to Wives: Contradictions of Liberation and Development in Eritrea.”
Northeast African Studies 8(3):129-154, 2001.

“Equality to Die For?: Women Guerilla Fighters and Eritreas Cultural Revolution.”
Political and Legal Anthropology Review 23(2):61-76, 2000.

“Colonial Moral Economy and the Discipline of Development: The Gezira Scheme and Modern Sudan.”
Cultural Anthropology 12(4):1-33, 1997.

“Islam, Transnational Culture, and Modernity in Rural Sudan.”
In Gendered Encounters: Challenging Cultural Boundaries and Social Hierarchies in Africa, edited by M. Grosz-Ngate and O. Kokole. Pp. 131-151, Routlege Press: N.Y. and London.

“Gender, Culture, and Capitalism: Women and the Remaking of Islamic “Tradition” in a Sudanese Village.“Comparative Studies in Society and History Vol 36(1):36-67, Jan 1994.