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Visiting Fellows
Nisar MajidVisiting Fellow
Nisar Majid’s initial working experience was in food security and livelihoods analysis and training, frequently within the early warning/information systems of Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya. He has also participated in a number of technical and organizational reviews and evaluations. In 2013 he completed his PhD, which explored the agency of Somali ‘diaspora’ members, through the various organizations and technologies – NGOs, informal networks, a mosque and community center, a website and mobile telephony – they utilize in order to pursue their developmental and political goals, in the UK and in the Somali territories. Nisar is currently working closely with the FIC on an 18-month study investigating the lessons learned from the recent ‘crisis’ in the Horn of Africa.
News Items
Dan Maxwell and LSE researchers publish in Aljazeera on potential famine in Somalia
Dan Maxwell teamed up with Nisar Majid and two other London School of Economics Research Associates to publish an opinion piece on Aljazeera on January 8, 2022. The authors implore…
Read MoreDan Maxwell and Nisar Magid’s book on Somalia Famine reviewed in Time Literary Supplement
In the January 30, 2018 edition of the Times Literary Supplement, The Fletcher School’s Alex de Waal reviewed Famine in Somalia by Daniel Maxwell and Nisar Majid among other books on…
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Another Humanitarian (and Political) Crisis in Somalia in 2022
This report rings the alarm about likely famine in Somalia in 2022 by comparing the situation today with the situation before and during the famine in 2011.
Read MoreNarratives of Famine Somalia 2011
This paper is important reading for anyone working in or on Somalia because it presents the Somalian famine of 2011 from the perspective of those who lived through it in…
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