Sawahil
Alex ThurstonA newsletter about West Africa, MENA, Islam, and politics.
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Mauritania: On the Sufi Background of President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani
Biographies of Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, who was elected to that office in 2019 after a long career at the apex of the military, often note that his father was a Sufi shaykh. His official biography briefly alludes to tho...
Mali: Some Post-April 25 Dynamics
The April 25 attacks in Mali by the jihadist group JNIM1 shook the military government of President Assimi Goïta and partly redrew the country’s political-military map, especially as the northern city of Kidal shifted back into the heads of...
West Africa, Horn, MENA: Links for 5/8/2026
Last week’s links can be found here.
Recent Writing/Podcasts
I had a few things come out this week:
- At Derek Davison’s Foreign Exchanges newsletter, I have a guest column titled “The IMF and the Limits of Sovereigntism.” It looks a...
Seven Questions on Islam, Education, and Colonialism in Northwest Africa for Samuel Anderson
Dr. Samuel D. Anderson’s The French Médersa: Islamic Education and Empire in Northwest Africa came out earlier this year with Cornell University Press. I was really excited to see it - I had read large sections of his dissertation with grea...
Senegal: Faye's Reformist Presidency Is in Deep Trouble
On May 2, Senegalese President Diomaye Faye sat for a two-hour interview in Wolof with three Senegalese journalists. RFI (French) summarizes the key points, two of which merit particular attention: Faye’s warning that even more difficult ec...
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I teach in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Cincinnati. I work on a range of topics connected to Islam and politics.
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