Nabiiha is a research assistant at PRIO with a background in Social Anthropology. She recently completed her Master’s degree, where her thesis explored disability in the war-to-peace transition in Mogadishu, Somalia. Her research focused on war-inflicted impairments among teenagers and young adults, examining the long-term effects on their ability to live self-sufficiently. Drawing on five months of ethnographic fieldwork in Mogadishu, she employed participant observation and semi-structured interviews as her primary methods. Nabiiha also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Anthropology with a minor in Psychology.

Education

• 2023 - 2025: MA in Social Anthropology, University of Oslo
• 2019 - 2022: BA in Social Anthropology, University of Oslo

Spoken Languages

• Fluent in Somali, Norwegian and English