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To enhance information and dialogue about pressing issues related to the Middle East, the project Other Voices provides English and French translations of Arabic articles and commissioned papers, mostly but not exclusively by Arab authors, who contribute to issues relevant to our four main program area, Statehood and Participation, Power and Identity, War and Peace and Sustainable Development. |
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Democratic Experience, Accountability and International Justice: Sudan and the Arab Region
Public Lecture, AUB Issam Fares Hall, Beirut, April 23, 2007.
Transcript Forthcoming |
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Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi is a former prime minister of Sudan, leader of the Ansar Sufi order and a great-grandson of Mohamed Ahmed Al-Mahdi, who led the resistance against the British colonization of Sudan in the late 19th century. Elected prime minister for the first time in 1966 at the age of 31, he came to power again when democracy was restored in Sudan in 1986, only to be toppled by the current ruler of Sudan, Omar Al-Bashir, in a military coup in 1989. Imprisoned and exiled several times, Al-Mahdi has consistently argued for democracy and inclusion as the only solution to the problems of Sudan. In recent years, he has voiced criticism against the conduct of both the government and rebel forces in the province of Darfur, and has called for a process of national reconciliation to solve the crisis. He is the author of several scholarly books, among them Legitimate Penalties and Their Position in the Islamic Social System (1987); Democracy in Sudan Will Return and Triumph (1990); Challenges of the Nineties (1991); Calls of the Modern World (2001). |
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