Jaafar Abbas is a Sudanese writer and journalist, famous for his satirical style (List of satirists and satires).Born in Khartoum, he graduated at the University of Khartoum, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. In 1977 he was "certified" as a TV producer by the British Council Media Institute in London.
He has worked in a variety of positions in newspapers of Persian Gulf countries newspapers and in BBC Arabic section. He is currently working as the director of quality assurance department in Al Jazeera.[1]
In 1994 his book obtuse angles was released. He also released another book in 2008 called Obtuse angles and other Acute ones. In October 2012 he published The Biography of a homeland in the March of a Citizen?.