Elsadig Elsheikh is the Director of the Global Justice Program at the Othering & Belonging Institute, where he oversees the program’s projects on corporate power, food systems, forced migration, inclusiveness index, Islamophobia, and human rights mechanisms; and manages the Shahidi Project, and the Nile Project.
Elsadig's research interests focus on the themes and socio-political dynamics related to state and citizenship; race and corporate power; and measuring social policies of exclusion and inclusion. Elsadig authored and co-authored a number of articles, essays, and reports on corporate power and the food system, Islamophobia, forced migration, inclusiveness index, Trans-Pacific Partnership, UN human rights mechanisms, and Sudanese politics.
Prior to the Othering & Belonging Institute, Elsadig led the international program at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University, where he also served as an associate editor of the Institute’s journal, Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary in Global Contexts. Earlier, Elsadig was a researcher with the European Economic Community, Amnesty International, Witness for Peace, and various international grassroots and advocacy organizations on issues related to internal displaced persons, Indigenous peoples, human rights, immigration, social mobilization, and environmental and social justice in Sudan, Greece, Colombia, and the United States. Elsadig holds degrees and trainings from Panteion University/Athens, Greece, the Ohio State University/Ohio, SIT Graduate Institute/Vermont, and Columbia University/New York.
Publications
- Sudan after Revolt: Reimagining Society, Surviving Vengeance (Essay; 2020)
- Climate Refugees: The Climate Crisis and Rights Denied (Report; 2019)
- 2019 Inclusiveness Index (Report; 2019)
- UN UPR: Consequences of Islamophobia on Civil Liberties and Rights in the United States (Report; 2019)
- UN CERD: Request for Early-Warning Measures: The Rise of Islamophobia in the United States: Impeding Freedom of Religion and Freedom from Discrimination (Report; 2019)
- UN ICCPR: Legalizing Xenophobia and Islamophobia in the United States (Report; 2019)
- Islamophobia in the United States: A Reading Resource Pack (Annotated Bibliography; 2018)
- The Era of Corporate Consolidation and the End of Competition (Report; 2018)
- 2018 Inclusiveness Index (Report; 2018)
- Moving Targets: An Analysis of Global Forced Migration (Report; 2017)
- Legalizing Othering: The United States of Islamophobia (Report; 2017)
- 2017 Inclusiveness Index (Report; 2017)
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Corporations Before People and Democracy (Report; 2016)
- 2016 Inclusiveness Index (Report; 2016)
- Race and Corporate Power in the US Food System: Examining the Farm Bill (Article; 2016)
- The US Farm Bill: Corporate Power and Structural Racialization in the US Food System (Report; 2015)
- Sudan and the International Criminal Court Revisited: The Dilemma of Retributive Justice and the Question of “Responsibility to Protect” (Essay; 2015)
- Examining the World Bank’s Doing Business Report (Essay; 2014)
- The Ethical Dilemma of Global Hunger (Essay; 2014)
- UN ICCPR: Structural Racialization and Food Insecurity in the United States (Report; 2013)
- Bowman v. Monsanto: The Monopoly over the Global Food System (Essay; 2013)
- Notes on Global Structural Inequality: Land and Neoliberal Politics in Africa (Essay; 2013)
- Darfur - Domesticating Coloniality: The Failure of the Nation-state Model in Post-colonial Sudan (Book; 2008)
Media Appearances
- More Women Are Targets of Xenophobic Hate (Richmond Pulse) | Oct. 13, 2021
- Over Two-Thirds Of Muslim Americans Have Faced Islamophobia, New Survey Finds (HuffPost) | Oct. 1, 2021
- Berkeley survey: Majority of Muslim Americans face Islamophobia, especially women (San Francisco Chronicle) | Sept. 29, 2021
- Biden plan could reunite Bay Area families split by Trump's travel ban (SF Chronicle) | Feb. 1, 2021
- Sudan deal is a big victory for its people (TRT World News Bulletin) | Aug. 17, 2019
- Interview with Elsadig Elsheikh from Haas Institute on Sudan-power sharing deal (TRT World News Bulletin) | July 4, 2019
- Peaceful calls from protesters for civilian rule in #Sudan were met with brutality (CNN International) | June 4, 2019
- How three years of transition could look like in Sudan (TRT World News Bulletin) | May 14, 2019
- Sudan: military leaders, opposition agree to 3-year transitional period (CNN International) | May 14, 2019
- Sudan’s Latest with Elsadig Elsheikh (KPFA, Voices of the Middle East and North Africa) | May 3, 2019
- Sudan Military Takeover: Interview with Elsadig Elsheikh (TRT World News Bulletin) | April 25, 2019
- Sudan: Several members of former ruling party arrested (TRT World News Bulletin) | April 23, 2019
- After the ousting of Omar al Bashir, what’s next for Sudan? (Strait Talk, TRT World) | April 19, 2019
- Sudan Military Takeover: Elsadig Elsheikh joins the discussion (TRT World News Bulletin) | April 14, 2019