Amna Elsadik Badri

Amna Elsadik Badri (Arabic: آمنة الصادق بدري) is a Sudanese academic, writer, and activist, focusing on women's education in Sudan. She is the vice president for academic affairs at Ahfad University for Women, the first women's college in the country, where she has taught since 1973.

Early life and education

Amna Elsadik Badri was born in Omdurman, Sudan. She graduated from Omdurman High School in 1969 and then attended the University of Khartoum, where she obtained a bachelor's degree in 1975. After receiving a master's degree in economics from the University of California in 1978, she returned to the University of Khartoum, where she graduated with a Ph.D. in 1987.[1][2]

Academic career

Since 1973, Badri has worked as a professor at the Ahfad University for Women, Sudan's first women's college.[1] She is one of many professors at this institution, who are members of the extended Badri family, which founded the school.[3]

She is the university's longtime vice president for academic affairs.[4][5][6] In this role, she represents Northern Africa at the Forum for African Women Vice Chancellors.[7]

Since 1987, Badri has overseen the university's feminist publication, The Ahfad Journal.[8][9][10] She has frequently spoken out against the cultural and traditional barriers to women's education in Sudan.[11]

In 2019, Badri was named among the potential candidates to serve as minister of education in the cabinet of Sudan's new prime minister, Abdalla Hamdok.[12] The post eventually was filled by Mohammed el-Amin el-Tom.[13]

Writing

Badri is considered a pioneer of women's journalism in Sudan for her work on The Ahfad Journal and other projects.[9] Her essay "Women's Studies - and a New Village Stove" was included in the 1984 feminist anthology Sisterhood Is Global.[14] In 1999, she wrote a book on adult literacy referring to speakers of Arabic with Asya Makkawi Ahmed which was published by UNESCO in Cairo.[15]

Other works include various Arabic-language books and essays on female genital mutilation, internally displaced women in Sudan, women in post-conflict peace building, and similar subjects.[16][17]

References
  1. Babiker Mahmoud, Fatima (2002). المرأة الافريقية بين الارث والحداثة [African Women Between Heritage and Modernity] (in Arabic).
  2. "Faculty List". Ahfad University for Women. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  3. Gendered voices : reflections on gender and education in South Africa and Sudan. Holmarsdottir, Halla B. Rotterdam: SensePublishers. 2013. ISBN 978-94-6209-137-5. OCLC 829078876.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  4. "Jameat Al-Ahfad Llbanat (AUW)". International Association of Universities. 2017-10-27. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  5. "Ahfad University for Women Undergraduate Catalogue 2016–17 & 2017–18" (PDF). Ahfad University for Women. 2016.
  6. Lindow, Megan (2007-01-12). "The Promising Half". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  7. "Prof Amna E. Badri – Representative Northern Africa". Forum for African Women Vice Chancellors. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  8. Holman Weisbard, Phyllis (Summer 2005). "Feminist Periodicals" (PDF). The University of Wisconsin System.
  9. Okasha, Zahra (2019-09-22). "الصحافة النسائية في السودان". Ashorooq (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 2019-03-29.
  10. Badri, Amna Elsadik; Burchinal, Lee G. (2004). "The Ahfad Journal: Women and Change: The First Twenty Years". The Ahfad Journal. 21 (2) – via ProQuest.
  11. "For women, the struggle continues". The Star. 2009-02-03.
  12. Younes, Ahmed; Yassin, Mohammed Amin (2019-08-27). "Sudan PM Asks FDFC to Name Candidates for Government". Asharq al-Awsat. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  13. "Hamdouk approves several candidates for the transitional cabinet". Sudan Daily. 2019-09-04. Archived from the original on 2019-09-04.
  14. Sisterhood is global : the international women's movement anthology. Morgan, Robin, 1941- (First ed.). Garden City, N.Y. 1984. ISBN 0-385-17796-8. OCLC 10995757.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  15. "البرنامج التدريبي العربي لمحو أمية الكبار _ التخطيط في مجال محو الامية وتعليم الكبار". Ministry of Education (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 2019-03-29.
  16. "Badri, Amna Elsadik". WorldCat. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  17. Adam, Nadine Rea Intisar (2016-10-21). "Hakamat and Peacebuilding 2004-2012". Égypte/Monde arabe (14): 155–167. doi:10.4000/ema.3595. ISSN 1110-5097.
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