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...Melani McAlister In the 1990s and early 2000s, the civil war in Sudan and the fate of Christians there became the abiding international preoccupation of US evangelicals. Framing the complex issues in Sudan as straightforward matters of religious and racial oppression, the Americans became activists...

...Ahmad A. Sikainga This essay examines the role of organized labor in Sudanese politics in the twentieth century. The essay focuses on the development of labor activism among the Sudanese railway workers who were concentrated in the town of Atbara, headquarters of the Sudan Railways...

...Salah M. Hassan This essay highlights the selective ways in which the conflict in Darfur has been presented, represented, and used by a range of actors in and outside of Sudan to promote their own agendas and interests. It draws attention to the urgency of apprehending the politics...

...Salah M. Hassan The last two decades have marked the publication of a number of prison memoirs and testimonials written by former leftist political prisoners in Sudan. Unlike reports issued by international human rights organizations, these publications foreground a much more personal...

...Alain Gresh Africa's largest country, Sudan, is first and foremost part of the Arab world, sensitive to the political tides that sweep the Arab peoples from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf. Like other members of the Arab League, Sudan was taken by surprise by the defeat of 1967. It was shaken...

...Iftikhar Dadi Ibrahim El Salahi's art, situated between Islamic textuality, African plastic forms, and transnational modernism, is distinctive in developing an aesthetic of decolonization for the Sudan and much of Africa. However, it can be usefully compared with other modernist artists from...

...Hassan M. Musa This account of the art exhibition literature in the Sudan reflects the complexity of modern political action there. The art exhibition was introduced by the colonial state as an instrument of propaganda. Post-independence authorities continued in a similar direction. Modern...

... 2009 Notes on Contributors rogaia mustafa abusharaf is a visiting associate professor of anthropology at Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service, Qatar. She is the author of Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan: Politics and the Body in a Squatter Settlement...

.... Was It Patriarchy? Was It Matriarchy? The view that the SWU was the spitting image of the SCP, thanks to the party’s patriarchy, was first proposed in Sondra Hale’s Gender Politics in Sudan: Islamism, Socialism, and the State.1 With the dearth of writing about the SCP, Hale’s stands out as a book...

...Joseph U. Garang In this 1971 essay, Joseph Garang, a leading Sudanese Marxist intellectual and activist in the 1960s and early 1970s, makes a case for a united Sudan. He draws from the wealth of Marxist theory to elucidate the political economy of power and marginality that undergirds the ethnic...

... a democratic workers’, students’, women’s, and young people’s movement; and to become an important factor in the Sudanese political arena, to the extent that any other party in the Sudan has to take into account the SCP’s response (ibid., 15–22). Adlan ignores the historical fact that the building...

...Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf In a sociopolitical and cultural context like that of Sudan, where forces of militarist, Islamist, and traditionalist politics persist with tenacity, chronicling the politics and intellectual legacy of Sudanese Marxism is a must for apprehending both its historiography...

... in Sudanese politics. —Mohamed Ahmed Mahgoub, a prominent Sudanese intellectual and politician, and former minister of for- eign affairs of Sudan To my mind these incidents provoke me per...

... of Communism in Europe. In abbreviating and condensing this work to apply directly to the Sudan- ese experience, I edited the essay with an eye toward Adlan’s focus on the Sudanese Communist Party’s history...

..., Sudan), the “Beijing Consensus” is competing vigorously with—if not yet fast replac- ing—the Washington Consensus as the world’s most important political and economic force. Whatever the case...

... showed, this shift in thinking had broad implications for African revolu- tionaries. In his view, Soviet Russia was not a viable yardstick for assessing the validity and relevance of socialism at the empirical level. Second, con- sideration of political practices in Sudan, which at the time...

... the local public in national discourses. So far, three sessions of twenty-four hours each have taken place. Languages alternate among English, Arabic in all its dialects (Palestine, Sudan, Lebanon, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco), Armenian, Indonesian Bahasa, Bangla, Réunion Creole, Farsi, Finnish, French, Hindi...

... Centre. He has taught at uni- versities in Sudan and the United Kingdom. Duffield is currently a member of the Scientific Board of the Flemish Peace Institute, Brussels, and a fel- low of the Rift Valley Institute, London and Nairobi. Outside of academia, during the 1980s, he was Oxfam’s country...

... 2009 Notes on Contributors Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf is a visiting associate professor of anthropology in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown Univer- sity in Qatar. She is the author of Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan: Politics and the Body in a Squatter...

..., he became an officer in the Army and the Royal Engineers. Before his death at Khartoum in 1885 Gordon had served in the Crimean War, the Near East, China, the Danube Valley, Egypt and the Sudan, South Africa, and India. He had lived for a period in Palestine, where he investigated the geography...