User:Mashmookler

I am currently a graduate student at the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University (NYU), where I focus on the modern history of Sudan, and related issues of Islam, modernity, and human rights. My scholarly interest in Sudan is informed by three years of living in Cairo, Egypt, where I was studying Arabic and working with the large East African and Iraqi refugee population.

As a refugee rights activist, I am critical of the degree to which scholarship on the Middle East in general, and Sudan in particular, is isolated from the larger debate about US policy. In this context, Wikipedia presents an exciting platform for making scholarly research more accessible to a wider audience.