Souad Kassim Mohamed

Souad Kassim Mohamed (Arabic: سعاد قاسم محمد, romanized: Suʻād Qāsim Muḥammad; born 30 November 1976) is a Djiboutian linguist, scholar and playwright.

Souad Kassim Mohamed
Born	30 November 1976 Djibouti
Occupation(s)	linguist, scholar and playwright
Academic background
Alma mater	Jean Monnet University, University of Burgundy and Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales
Academic work
Discipline	Linguistics
Sub-discipline	French didactics
Institutions	University of Djibouti
Notable works	Un enfant a tout prix (A Child at Any Price), play
Website	https://souad-kassim-mohamed.blog4ever.com/

Biography

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]