Nadia Sonneveld
Associate Professor
- Name
- Dr. N. Sonneveld
- Telephone
- 071 5273037
- n.sonneveld@law.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-6415-4699
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- Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
- Interdisciplinary Study of the Law
- VVI
- VVI Section A
- Sonneveld N. & Alami Merrouni S. (2025), Citizenship and grievability in migration: policies and practices surrounding death and burial of Sub-Saharan African migrants in Morocco, The Journal of North African Studies 30(5): 990-1018.
- Sonneveld N. & Jamee A. (13 May 2025), Gaza’s loss, our loss: Dignity at risk. Leiden Law Blog. Leiden: Leiden Law School (Universiteit Leiden). [blog entry].
- Jamee A., Abudan F.K., Sonneveld N., Stultiens A., Canfield M.C. & Da Vià E. (7 December 2025), Peace Building Opportunities in the Shadow of Scholasticide in Gaza?. E-International relations. Bristol, UK (University of the West of England). [web article].
- Sonneveld N. & Nooreddine D. (23 January 2024), Death, migration and identity: comparing burial practices among refugees and migrants in Lebanon and Morocco. News. Beirut: Lebanese American University (School of Arts and Sciences). [blog entry].
- Sonneveld N. & Conway D. (2024), What space for the dead?: the making of burial places for and by religious minorities in The Netherlands, Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis 56(1): 57-82.
- Al-Jaramani A. & Sonneveld N. (2024), The (Beard-) veil also matters on Facebook: Syrian men and women between patriarchy and revolution, Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World 22(3-4): 413-435.
- Sonneveld N. & Deen S. (Screenwriter) (2024), Going beyond gender documentary. Leiden: Mals Media (Leiden Law School). [film].
- Sonneveld N., Heddane N. & Uden J.J.M. van (2023), Policy-driven migration research?: A systematic literature review of migration in Morocco. Working Paper / Centre on Migration, Policy & Society (COMPAS) no. 164. Oxford: Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) (University of Oxford). [working paper].
- Eijk E. van & Sonneveld N. (2 May 2023), Accounting for ALL missing persons in Ukraine?. Leiden Law Blog. Leiden (Leiden Law School). [blog entry].
- Sonneveld N. & Sušić K. (21 September 2023), Living among the dead?: Cemeteries and burial practices in post-war Sarajevo. Leiden Islam Blog. Leiden: Leiden University. [blog entry].
- Hasanovic A. (editor writer and producer) & Sonneveld N. (writer and producer) (Screenwriter) (2023), Searching for Justice documentary. Rome, Italy: Admom Film. [film].
- Sonneveld N. (2022), Migration and law in the Middle East and North Africa. In: Starkey C. & Tomalin E (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of religion, gender and society. Routledge Handbooks in Religion. Abingdon: Routledge. 222-233.
- Jacobs C. & Sonneveld N. (7 February 2022), Shining a light on the meaning and value of citizenship for Internally Displaced Persons. Researching Internal Displacement. [blog entry].
- Sonneveld N. (24 November 2021), United in life, divided in death: religion and gender at the end of the lifecycle in Egypt. Leiden Islam Blog. Leiden: Leiden University. [blog entry].
- Jacobs C.I.M. & Sonneveld N. (2021), Empirical understandings of informal citizenship and membership: internally displaced persons in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Citizenship Studies 25(8): 1112-1127.
- Sonneveld N. (2021), Making Up the Balance: A Century of Muslim and Coptic Family Law Reform in Egypt. In: Parolin. G.P. (Ed.) One Hundred Years of Family Law Reform in Parliament, in Court, and on Screen. Abdou Filali-Ansary Occasional Paper Series no. 6 London: AKU-ISMC. 6-19.
- Sonneveld N. (2020), Male and Female Judges in Morocco Dealing with Minor Marriages: Towards a Relational Understanding of Family Law, Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World 18(2-3): 162-193.
- Sonneveld N. & Alagha J. (2020), Why His Photograph Was Not Taken: Reconsidering Membership in Lebanon. In: Meijer R., Sater J.N. & Babar Z.R. (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa. London: Routledge. 336-348.
- Sonneveld N. (2020), Marriage and Divorce. In: Ryan J.M. & Rizzo H. (Eds.), Gender in the Middle East and North Africa: Contemporary Issues and Challenges. Boulder & London: Lynne Rienner. 51-72.
- Sonneveld N. (2019), Divorce Reform in Egypt and Morocco: Men and Women Navigating Rights and Duties, Islamic Law and Society 26(1-2): 149-178.
- Sonneveld N. & Stiles E. (2019), Khulʿ: Local Contours of a Global Phenomenon, Islamic Law and Society 26(1-2): 1-11.
- Sonneveld N. (2019), Review of: F. Wilson (ed.) (2018), The contested place of religion in family law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Politics, Religion and Ideology 20(4): 511-513.
- Sonneveld N. (2017), Review of: Žvan Elliott K. (2015), Modernizing Patriarchy: The Politics of Women's Rights in Morocco. Austin: University of Texas Press. Islamic Law and Society 24(3): 299-303.
- Sonneveld N. (2016), Review of: Perkin D. (2013), Bastards: Outcasts in Morocco [film]: Deborah Perkin Media Ltd Production in association with Film Agency for Wales. Review of Middle East Studies 50(2): 183-185.
- Sonneveld N. & Tawfik A. (2015), Gender, Islam and judgeship in Egypt, International Journal of Law in Context 11(3): 341-360.
- Sonneveld N. (2014), No One's above the Law, International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family 28(2): 212-221.
- Sonneveld N. (2010), Khul' Divorce in Egypt: How Family Courts are providing a 'Dialogue' between Husband and Wife, Anthropology of the Middle East 5(2): 100-120.
- Berger M.S. & Sonneveld N. (2010), Sharia and National Law in Egypt. In: Otto J.M. (Ed.), Sharia Incorporated: A Comparative Overview of the Legal Systems in Twelve Muslim Countries in Past and Present. Leiden: Leiden University Press. 51-88.
- Sonneveld N. (2009), Op straat gezet worden of op straat zetten? Echtscheiding in Egypte, ZemZem. Tijdschrift over het Midden-Oosten, Noord-Afrika en islam 5(3): 104-110.