Souad Kassim Mohamed (; born 30 November 1976) is a Djiboutian linguist, scholar and playwright.
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.
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.Al-Hadheri, Samaher, and Pernot, Morgann Barbara. (2022) "The Evolution of Yemeni Migration to Djibouti". Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies. Retrieved 1 March 2025. Djibouti was formerly a French colony and attracted migration, particularly that of merchants, in the 20th century. Mohamed has also studied trends in oral traditions in the Horn of Africa.Sabrine, B. (2017) REFLEXIONS SUR LES APPROCHES DE L'ENSEIGNEMENT DE L'ORAL DU FRANÇAIS LANGUE ÉTRANGÈRE (FLE). (in French) Revue des Sciences Humaines 48. Université Mohamed Khider Biskra.
Mohamed has critiqued literary stereotypes of the sterile and cursed woman,Ared, Djama Said. "Panorama de la littérature Djiboutienne d’expression française ." (in French) Science et Environnement 29. pp. 71-88. Retrieved 1 March 2025. 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.
With Marine Larocca of the French Institute of Djibouti, Mohamed published Teaching French in secondary schools in Djibouti: What place for linguistic variation?Doualeh, Samatar Abdallah. (2023) "Enseigner le français dans le secondaire à Djibouti: Quelle place pour la variation linguistique?." L'Expansion de la norme endogène du français en francophonie: explorations sociolinguistiques, socio-didactiques et médiatiques. She has contributed to publications including Al-Shajarah: Journal of the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilisation (ISTAC).Souad, Merah, Tahraoui Ramdane, Nor Hayati Husin, Madihah Khalid, Noor Lide Abd Kassim, and Suzana Suhailawaty Sidek. (2018) “MUSLIM STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION OF WESTERN VALUES AS PRESENTED IN ENGLISH TEXT BOOKS: INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC SCHOOL MALAYSIA (SECONDARY) AS A CASE STUDY”. Al-Shajarah: Journal of the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilisation (ISTAC) : 241-66. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
She works as a senior lecturer in linguistics and French didactics at the University of Djibouti.Simone-Senelle, Marie-Claude. (2017) "Linguistic research in the Horn of Africa". Retrieved 1 March 2025.
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