{"id":5068,"date":"2013-08-30T14:33:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T18:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=5068"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:53:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:53:33","slug":"dr-mohamed-ali","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/people\/dr-mohamed-ali\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Mohamed Ali"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Research Interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Medieval and modern History of Africa<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Trade, Religion and Ethnicity in Africa History<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Issues in African Historiography- Linguistics and Oral traditions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Professional Experience:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dean of College of Education, Lafole and Professor of African History at the Somali National University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Teaching African history courses at the University of Ottawa (2000-2006) and Carleton University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Courses taught:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>History of Africa (HIST 2705A)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>History of Sub-Saharan Africa,1885 (HIST 2376)at UO<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ancient and Pre-colonial Africa (HIST2706A)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Scramble for Africa (3702A)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Africa in the Era of Slave Trade (HIST 3906)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Recent Scholarly Communications:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLinguistic Approaches To the Past.\u201d In \u201cPutting the Cart Before the Horse. Ed. Abdi Kusow (Contested Nationalism and the Crises of the Nation State in Somalia), 15-32. The Red Sea Press,2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Role of Linguistics and Oral Traditions in reconstructing the early history of the Somali speaking societies.\u201d Presented at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of African Studies(CAAS),Carleton University,5-7 May 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Awards:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fulbright Certificate for academic achievement as a Fulbright Scholar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8469,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Dr. Mohamed","cu_people_last_name":"Ali","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[254],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-5068","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-adjunct-professors"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"","cu_people_degree":"Ph.D. (UCLA)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"MohamedAli@cunet.carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"613-286-0889","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/5068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/5068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13777,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/5068\/revisions\/13777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=5068"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=5068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}