Intisar el-Zein Soughayroun explained

Intisar el-Zein Soughayroun
Native Name:انتصار الزين صغيرون
Native Name Lang:ar
Occupation:archeologist
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Office1:Minister of Higher Education
Term Start1:September 2019
Primeminister1:Abdalla Hamdok

Intisar el-Zein Soughayroun (also: Intsar, al-Zein, el-Zein, Sghairyoun, Segayron; Arabic: انتصار الزين صغيرون) is a professor of archeology at the University of Khartoum. In early September 2019 Soughayroun became the Sudanese Minister for Higher Education in the Transitional Cabinet of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, during the 2019 Sudanese transition to democracy.

Archaeological research

Soughayroun is a professor of archaeology at the University of Khartoum. She is involved in ongoing scientific collaboration with the University of Bergen in Norway. Her research interests include the archaeology of Islam in Sudan. She has worked on the site of Qasr Wad nimieri, which is 470 km north of Khartoum.[1] She studied for her MA and her PhD at the American University in Cairo, with a doctoral dissertation examining Islamic domed tombs in Sudan; she graduated from her PhD in 1986.[2]

Soughayroun was co-director of the Meroe Archival Project, which was a collaboration between the University of Reading and the University of Khartoum.[3]

Publications include

2018–2019 Sudanese protests

Soughayroun participated in the 2018–2019 Sudanese protests. One of her nephews was killed in the 3 June 2019 Khartoum massacre. In early July 2019, she expressed scepticism regarding negotiations with the Transitional Military Council, based on past experience, and supported continued civil disobedience. She felt that the TMC was weakening in power.

Minister of Higher Education

In early September 2019, Soughayroun was appointed as the Minister of Higher Education of Sudan (or head of the Higher Education and Scientific Research Council) in the Transitional Cabinet of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, during the 2019 Sudanese transition to democracy.[6] Other women leaders of Sudan during the transitional period include Chief Justice Nemat Abdullah Khair, and Sovereignty Council members Aisha Musa el-Said and Raja Nicola.[7]

Notes and References

  1. El-Zein, I.S., 2010. Qasr Wad Nimeiri and its qubbas. Sudan and Nubia, 14, pp.91-95.
  2. Edwards. David N.. Osman. Ali. Tahir. Yahia Fadl. Sadig. Azhari Mustafa. el-Zein. Intisar Soghayroun. 2012-12-01. On a Nubian frontier — landscapes of settlement on the Third Cataract of the Nile, Sudan. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa. 47. 4. 450–487. 10.1080/0067270X.2012.727615. 154588776. 0067-270X.
  3. Web site: Meroe Archival Project News. 2020-07-08. www.baruch.cuny.edu. 10 October 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201010084933/https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/meroecity/pages/news.html. dead.
  4. Book: Elzein, Intisar Soghayroun.. Islamic archaeology in the Sudan. 2004. Archaeopress. 1-84171-639-1. Oxford, England. 57281621.
  5. Book: Elzein, Intisar. The Frontiers of the Ottoman World. 2009-12-03. British Academy. 978-0-19-726442-3. en. 10.5871/bacad/9780197264423.003.0019.
  6. Web site: 2019-11-19. A New Academic Freedom Report Describes Worldwide Attacks on Higher Education. 2020-07-08. Al-Fanar Media. en-US.
  7. Web site: EISA Sudan: Government members. 2020-07-08. www.eisa.org.za.