Souad Kassim Mohamed

Mohamed was born in 1976. She studied in France at Jean Monnet University in Saint-Etienne, the University of Burgundy in Dijon, and the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) in Paris.^[1]

She has researched the cultural practices of Yemeni migrants in Ambouli, Djibouti, putting forward the theory that Ambouli Yemenis have taken a form of "social revenge" by studying French to become officials and landowners.^[2] Djibouti was formerly a French colony and attracted migration, particularly that of merchants, in the 20th century.^[3] Mohamed has also studied trends in oral traditions in the Horn of Africa.^[4][5]

Mohamed has critiqued literary stereotypes of the sterile and cursed woman,^[6] through writing the play Un enfant a tout prix (A Child at Any Price), which explores the common belief that infertility in marriage must be the woman's problem.^[7]

With Marine Larocca of the French Institute of Djibouti, Mohamed published Teaching French in secondary schools in Djibouti: What place for linguistic variation?^[8][9] She has contributed to publications including Al-Shajarah: Journal of the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilisation (ISTAC).^[10]

She works as a senior lecturer in linguistics and French didactics at the University of Djibouti.^[11][12]