{"id":146,"date":"2017-10-04T19:29:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T19:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-international-studies\/facultystaff\/ahmedsamatar\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T21:46:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:46:29","slug":"ahmedsamatar","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/international-studies\/facultystaff\/ahmedsamatar\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmed Samatar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Ahmed I. Samatar, founding Dean of Macalester’s Institute for Global Citizenship, has lectured at many universities and colleges, including Cornell, Harvard, Iowa, London School of African and Oriental Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science, Somali National University, Toronto, University of Amsterdam, University of Pennsylvania, North Carolina (Chapel Hill), York, University of Otago, and Wellesley College. Samatar, whose expertise is in the areas of global political economy, political and social thought, and African development, is the author\/co-author\/editor of five books and over fifty articles and reviews, including\u00a0The Rise and Fall of Somali Nationalism (2026);<\/em>\u00a0The Making of\u00a0Dahabshiil\u00a0<\/strong>(2021);<\/i>Beware of the Jihadist Component<\/em> (New York Times, 2013); Interviewing the Interviewer<\/em> (2011);\u00a0Escape From Hell: What Now For Somali-Americans?<\/em> (2011);\u00a0The African State: Reconsiderations\u00a0<\/em>(Heinemann, 2002); and\u00a0Somalia: State Collapse, Multilateral Intervention, and Strategies for Political Reconstruction<\/em>\u00a0(Brookings Institution, 1995). Professor Samatar is the founding editor-in-chief of\u00a0Bildhaan: An International Journal of Somali Studies.\u00a0<\/em>He is also the editor of 28 Volumes\u00a0of Macalester International<\/em>, a journal of undergraduate education and internationalism. His current research interests are in the areas of leadership and the state in Somalia, and globalization and the rise of Islamic consciousness.\u00a0In the special commissioned volume of Bildhaan\u00a0<\/em>which focuses on the exigencies of transition in Somalia, Samatar’s article is titled:\u00a0The Porcupine Dilemma: Govenance and Transition in Somalia<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>(Volume 7, 2007). His other articles include:\u00a0A Virtuosic Touch: Hodeide, a Life with the Oud and More<\/em>\u00a0(Bildhaan, Volume 8, 2008), and Battling Two Fronts: Introducing Maryen Omer Ali<\/em>\u00a0(Bildhaan, Volume 9, 2009). Professor Samatar has conducted workshops for and delivered numerous public lectures to Somali Diasporic communities across North America, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.<\/p>\n

BA:\u00a0magna cum laude,\u00a0<\/em>University of Wisconsin (LaCrosse), 1978
\nMA: University of Denver, 1981
\nPhD: University of Denver, 1984<\/p>\n

View syllabi for courses taught by Professor Samatar:<\/strong><\/p>\n

INTL 110 – Intro to International Studies: Globalization<\/a><\/p>\n

INTL 301 – Power and Development in Africa<\/a><\/p>\n

INTL 380 – Leadership in a Global Context<\/a><\/p>\n

INTL 489 – Senior Seminar: Capitalism and World (Dis) Order<\/a><\/p>\n

Bereft of Trust: Reflections on the Causes of the Somali Catastrophe<\/a><\/p>\n

Trump time and American Muslims<\/a> by Ahmed I. Samatar, Special to Gulf News<\/p>\n

Reconstructing Somalia: Love Songs at the Birth of a Nation<\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times – Room for Debate<\/a><\/p>\n

WORLD VIEWS- Samatar’s Hero’s Welcome in Somaliland – The AfricaPaper<\/a><\/p>\n

Featured on<\/span> CNN’s African Voices (12\/07\/12)<\/a><\/p>\n

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