43 Notable alumni of
University of Khartoum
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The University of Khartoum is 1229th in the world, 25th in Africa, and 1st in Sudan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 43 notable alumni from the University of Khartoum sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Riek Machar
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon is a South Sudanese politician who has served as the vice president of South Sudan on several occasions, most recently as the first vice president, since 2020.
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Abdalla Hamdok
- Occupations
- economistofficialministerpolitician
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Abdalla Hamdok Al-Kinani is a Sudanese public administrator who served as the 15th prime minister of Sudan from 2019 to October 2021, and again from November 2021 until his resignation in 2022.
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al-Tayyib Salih
- Occupations
- writernovelistjournalistdiplomat
- Biography
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Al-Tayeb Salih was a Sudanese writer, novelist, and journalist, considered to be one of the most prominent Arab writers of the 20th century. Through his captivating narrative style and profound themes, Salih etched his name alongside literary giants such as Gibran Khalil Gibran, Taha Hussein, and Naguib Mahfouz, earning the title of "the genius of the Arabic novel" by many critics. His writings are renowned for their creative portrayal of the clash between East and West, and for presenting Sudanese identity in its finest literary form.
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Hasan al-Turabi
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- theologianministerpolitician
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Hassan al-Turabi was a Sudanese politician and scholar. He was the alleged architect of the 1989 Sudanese military coup that overthrew Sadiq al-Mahdi and installed Omar al-Bashir as president. He has been called "one of the most influential figures in modern Sudanese politics" and a "longtime hard-line ideological leader". He was instrumental in institutionalizing Sharia (Islamic law) in the northern part of the country and was frequently imprisoned in Sudan, but these "periods of detention" were "interspersed with periods of high political office".
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Meena Alexander
- Occupations
- writerpoetnovelistuniversity teacher
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Meena Alexander was an Indian American poet, scholar, and writer. Born in Allahabad, India, and raised in India and Sudan, Alexander later lived and worked in New York City, where she was a Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center.
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Ibrahim Abboud
- Occupations
- military personnelpolitician
- Biography
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Ibrahim Abboud was a Sudanese military officer and political figure who served as the head of state of Sudan between 1958 and 1964 and as President of Sudan in 1964; however, he soon resigned, ending Sudan's first period of military rule. A career soldier, Abboud served in World War II in Egypt and Iraq. In 1949, Abboud became the deputy Commander in Chief of the Sudanese military. Upon independence, Abboud became the Commander in Chief of the Military of Sudan.
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Leila Aboulela
- Occupations
- writernovelist
- Biography
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Leila Fuad Aboulela FRSL is a fiction writer, essayist, and playwright of Sudanese origin based in Aberdeen, Scotland. She grew up in Khartoum, Sudan, and in 1990 moved to Scotland, where she began her literary career. As of 2023, Aboulela has published six novels and several short stories, which have been translated into fifteen languages. Her most popular novels, Minaret (2005) and The Translator (1999) both feature the stories of Muslim women in the UK and were longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award and Orange Prize. Aboulela's works have been included in publications such as Harper's Magazine, Granta, The Washington Post and The Guardian. BBC Radio has adapted her work extensively and broadcast a number of her plays, including The Insider, The Mystic Life and the historical drama The Lion of Chechnya. The five-part radio serialization of her 1999 novel The Translator was short-listed for the Race In the Media Award (RIMA).
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Babiker Awadalla
- Occupations
- ministerjudgepolitician
- Biography
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Babiker Awadalla was a Sudanese politician and Arab nationalist figure who was Prime Minister of Sudan from 25 May 1969 to 27 October 1969.
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Sheikh Mukhtar Robow
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sheikh Mukhtar Robow, also known as Abu Mansur, is a former deputy leader and former spokesman of the Somali militant group Al-Shabaab.
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Nesrine Malik
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
- Biography
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Nesrine Malik FRSL is a Sudanese-born journalist and author of We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent. Based in London, Malik is a columnist for The Guardian and served as a panellist on the BBC's weekly news discussion programme Dateline London.
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Ali Osman Taha
- Occupations
- diplomatministerjudgepolitician
- Biography
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Ali Osman Mohammed Taha is a Sudanese politician who was first vice president of Sudan from July 2011 to December 2013. Previously he was minister of foreign affairs from 1993 to 1995, first vice president from 1995 to January 2005, and second vice president from August 2005 to July 2011. He is a member of the National Congress Party.
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Gibril Ibrahim
- Occupations
- teachingacademicpolitician
- Biography
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Gibril Ibrahim Mohammed, often spelled Jibril, is a Sudanese politician who has been the Minister of Finance since 2021. He has also been the chairman of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) since 2012, after the death of his brother, Khalil. In October 2020 he signed the Juba Peace Agreement. As chairman of the JEM, he was neutral in the 2023 War in Sudan from April until November, when he allied with the Sudanese Armed Forces.
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Motazz Moussa
- Years
- 1967-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- politicianminister
- Biography
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Motazz Moussa Abdullah Salim is a Sudanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Sudan from 2018 to 2019. Prior to his tenure as prime minister he was Minister of Electricity and Water Resources from 2013 to 2018. Appointed by President Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese Revolution broke out during his tenure and a state of emergency was declared one day before his dismissal.
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Sirr Al-Khatim Al-Khalifa
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- diplomatprofessorpolitician
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Sirr Al-Khatim Al-Khalifa Al-Hassan was a Sudanese politician, ambassador and an elite educator, who served as the 4th Prime Minister of Sudan. He was famous for his great legacy in education and founding prints for Ministry of Education in Sudan, and as the executive Prime Minister in the October Regime. Al-Khalifa had a socialist orientation and was therefore sympathetic to the Simba, who had embraced communism.
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Mohamed Tahir Ayala
- Enrolled in the University of Khartoum
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mohamed Tahir Ayala was a Sudanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Sudan from February to April 2019, making him the final Prime Minister to serve under President Omar al-Bashir. On 11 April 2019, he was deposed along with the other members of the government in the 2019 Sudanese coup d'état. He had previously served as Minister of Roads and Bridges and later as the governor of Red Sea State (2005–2015) and Gezira State (2015–2019).
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Francis Deng
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Francis Mading Deng is a South Sudanese politician and diplomat. He played an important role in advancing a Responsibility to Protect (R2P) when he was the UN's Special Representative on Internally Displaced Persons (1992–2004).
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Ali Ahmed Karti
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- 1953-.. (age 73)
- Occupations
- politicianminister
- Biography
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Ali Ahmed Karti is a Sudanese politician and businessman. Karti served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sudan from 2010 to 2015. As of June 2021 he is the secretary general of the Sudanese Islamic Movement.
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Abel Alier
- Occupations
- writerministerjudgepolitician
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Abel Alier Kwai is a South Sudanese politician and judge who served as First Vice President of Sudan between 1971 and 1982 and as President of the High Executive Council of the Southern Sudan Autonomous Region between 1972 and 1978. Abel Alier was a politician who managed to complete his college education among many Southern Sudanese. He is an internationally respected judge, human-rights lawyer and activist on behalf of Christians in the Sudan. Former Vice President of Sudan (1971–1982), he served as the first president of the High Executive Council of Southern Sudan. He sits on the Permanent Court of International Arbitration in The Hague and is recognized as Sudan's most prominent Christian lawyer. His latest book is Southern Sudan: Too Many Agreements Dishonoured.
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Asma Mohamed Abdalla
- Occupations
- diplomatcivil servantpolitician
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Asma Mohamed Abdalla is a Sudanese diplomat. She became Sudan's first female Minister of Foreign Affairs in early September 2019 in the Transitional Cabinet of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, during the 2019 Sudanese transition to democracy.
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Awn Alsharif Qasim
- Occupations
- writerministerpoliticianencyclopedist
- Biography
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Awn Al-Sharif Qasim was a prolific Sudanese writer, encyclopedist, scholar, community leader, and one of Sudan's leading experts on Arabic language and literature.
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Mustafa Osman İsmail
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- diplomatministerpolitician
- Biography
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Mustafa Osman Ismail was the head of the National Congress Party, the ruling party in Sudan. Ismail was the Foreign Minister of Sudan from 18 February 1998 to 18 September 2005.
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Nhial Deng Nhial
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Lieutenant General Nhial Deng Nhial is a South Sudanese politician and a member of the ruling Sudan People's Liberation Movement, born in May 1957. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs 2011 to 2013 and 2018 to 2019 after having served as the caretaker Minister of Defense since 10 July 2011. Prior to that he served as the pre-independence South Sudanese Minister of SPLA and Veteran Affairs, from 22 December 2008 until 9 July 2011.
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Nasredeen Abdulbari
- Occupations
- writerpolitician
- Biography
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Nasredeen Abdulbari is a Sudanese-American author, lawyer, and human rights advocate who became the Minister of Justice on 9 September 2019 in the transitional cabinet of Abdalla Hamdok, during the 2019 Sudanese transition to democracy.
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Moiz Bakhiet
- Occupations
- neurologist
- Biography
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Moiz Bakhiet is a Swedish - Sudanese Professor. He is the chairman (Founder) of the department of molecular medicine at the Arabian Gulf University and the CEO (Founder) of Princess Al-Jawhara Center for Molecular Medicine, Genetics and Inherited Diseases in the Kingdom of Bahrain. He is also a neurologist at the Bahrain Royal Medical Services, the King Hamad University Hospital and currently King Abdulla Medical City in the Bahraini capital, Manama.
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Nahla Mahmoud
- Occupations
- human rights defenderspokespersonwriter
- Biography
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Nahla Mahmoud is a Sudanese-born British writer, ex-Muslim, secularist, environmentalist, human rights activist and spokesperson for the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain. She's known for being vocal against religious extremism; advocating free-speech, LGBTQ rights and awareness on climate change. She fled to the United Kingdom in 2010.
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Rashid Bakr
- Occupations
- politicianminister
- Biography
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El Rashid El Tahir Bakr was a Sudanese politician during the rule of Gaafar Nimeiry, which lasted from 1969 to 1985.
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Barnaba Marial Benjamin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Barnaba Marial Benjamin Bil is a South Sudanese politician. He was appointed in April 2021 as the minister of Presidential Affairs in the office of the President as of 2022 replacing Nhial Deng Nhial.
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Ismail El Gizouli
- Occupations
- environmental scientist
- Biography
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Ismail Abdel Rahim El Gizouli is a Sudanese civil servant specializing in energy and environment and a member of the bureau of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He has acted as interim chairman of the IPCC since 24 February 2015, following the resignation of Rajendra Kumar Pachauri. This appointment will last until the next election for a chairman, which is due to take place at the 42nd session in October 2015.
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Alhaj Adam Yousef
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- politicianminister
- Biography
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Al-Haj Adam Youssef was the Second Vice President of Sudan from September 13, 2011 to December 7, 2013.
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Amal Khalifa Habbani
- Occupations
- human rights defenderactivistjournalist
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Amal Khalifa Idris Habani is a Sudanese journalist and human rights activist.
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Stella Gaitano
- Occupations
- writernovelist
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Stella Gaitano is a creative writer, activist and former pharmacist from South Sudan. She is known for her short stories, often dealing with the harsh living conditions of people from southern Sudan, who have endured discrimination and military dictatorship, war and displacement in the northern part of Sudan. Since the independence of South Sudan in 2011, she has also published short stories about life in her new nation.
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Ali M. El-Agraa
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- economist
- Biography
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Ali M. El-Agraa is Emeritus Professor of International Economic Integration, Fukuoka University, Japan. He was invited to Fukuoka University in 1988 while he was a Visiting Professor with the International University of Japan (1984-6), on leave from the University of Leeds (UK), which he joined in 1971. He left Sudan in 1964 for England where he became a permanent resident and in 1977 was granted British citizenship. He is married to Diana Latham Moult (20 October 1979) and has a son (Mark Stephen) and a daughter (Frances Hanna). He is now back in the UK, living in Greater London.
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Nisreen Elsaim
- Enrolled in the University of Khartoum
- 2018-2020 graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- climate activist
- Biography
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Nisreen Elsaim is a Sudanese climate activist and climate negotiator.
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Lawrence Lual Lual
- Years
- 1940-2011 (aged 71)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lawrence Lual Lual Akuei was a South Sudanese politician born in Mathiang-Agor village of Ajak area into a family of spiritual leader Lual Akuei Lual of Pakuein Paan-Deng sub-clan of Agaal-Liil section.
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Muntaser Eltayeb Ibrahim
- Occupations
- geneticist
- Biography
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Muntaser Eltayeb Ibrahim is a Sudanese geneticist and professor of molecular biology at the University of Khartoum, where he leads its Institute of Endemic Diseases. Science described him as "one of Sudan's most distinguished living scholars". His research focuses on human genetic diversity in Africa, human genetic variation contributing to susceptibility to infectious diseases such as malaria and leishmaniasis, and cancer genetics.
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Sirajuddin Hamid Yousuf
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 73)
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Sirajuddin Hamid Yousuf is a Sudanese diplomat and is the current Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Sudan to the Russian Federation, presenting his credentials to President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev on 16 January 2009.
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Gada Kadoda
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- researcherelectrical engineeruniversity teachersoftware engineer
- Biography
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Gada Kadoda is a Sudanese Engineer and associate professor at Garden City College for Science and Technology. She teaches at the University of Khartoum, where she introduced a course in knowledge management. She has previously served as President of the Sudanese Knowledge Society. She was selected as one of the BBC 100 Women in 2019.
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Alaa Satir
- Occupations
- visual artistdraftsperson
- Biography
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Alaa Satir is a Sudanese visual artist, known for her illustrations, murals and cartoons presenting images relating to women's rights, the Sudanese revolution of 2018/19 and other social and political issues in contemporary Sudan. Since her first exhibition in Khartoum in 2017, and especially through her street art highlighting the importance of women in Sudanese society, she has gained international reputation as an artist and activist for freedom of expression, social justice and women's rights.
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Lily Albino Akol Akol
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- 20th Century
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Her Excellency Lily Albino Akol Akol is a South Sudanese politician who holds the constitutional post of National Deputy Minister of Information and Communication. She also serves as a Member of the South Sudan National Dialogue Steering Committee. She is the director of communication for the South Sudan Women empowerment network, and is an assistant professor at the University of Juba and serving as the director of International Cooperation, Communication and Alumni Affairs, as well as a lecturer in the College of Arts and Humanities / Department of Mass Communication.
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Abdelmahmood Abdelhaleem
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Abdelmahmood Abdelhaleem Mohamad is a Sudanese diplomat. From September 2006 to August 2010, Abdelhaleem was his country's ambassador to the United Nations.
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Arop Yor Ayik
- Years
- 1935-1999 (aged 64)
- Occupations
- politicianminister
- Biography
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Arop Yor Ayik was a South Sudanese academic and politician.
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Ruben Madol Arol Kachuol
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ruben Madol Arol Kachuol is a South Sudan politician. He served as deputy chief justice and minister of justice and constitutional affairs in the Cabinet of South Sudan.
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Mandour Elmahdi
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Mandour El Mahdi was a Sudanese administrator and educator. He was one of the pioneers in the development of education in Sudan after the country's independence from the United Kingdom in 1956, and he later became Director of Education in Saudi Arabia. He was also the author of A Short History of the Sudan (1965), one of the first history books to be written about what was then Africa's biggest country. It was used for the history syllabus in Sudan until 1989.
