Articles - Sudanese Feminist Reading List

Articles - General Information

While we prioritized articles by Sudanese women, those by writers of other backgrounds are also included.

Everything You Need to Know About What's Going on in Sudan

By Fatima Zaidi. 27 Apr 2023, Muslim Girl.

The Generational Gender Struggle in the Sudanese Revolution

By Omnia Shawkat. 14 Jun 2019, African Feminism.

Here is What You Should Know About the Crisis in Sudan

By Sarah Mohr. 30 Jan 2024, Muslim Girl.

The many mothers of Sudan’s revolution

By Nisrin Elamin and Tahani Ismail. 4 May 2019, Al Jazeera.

Shifting Terrains of Political Participation in Sudan: Elements dating from the second colonial (1898–1956) period to the contemporary era [report]

By Azza Ahmed Abdel Aziz and Aroob Alfaki. 20 Jul 2021, International IDEA.

Sudan is at risk of unravelling from decades of injustice

By Azza Ahmed Abdel Aziz. 25 Apr 2023, Middle East Eye.

Sudan revolution: How women's participation reveals societal fissures

By Azza Ahmed Abdel Aziz. 4 Jul 2019, Middle East Eye.

The Third Sudanese Revolution Reinstates Women from all Walks of Life onto the Map of Sudanese Public Life

By Azza Ahmed Abdel Aziz. 1 May 2019, Noria Research.

Women on the Frontlines: A Feminist Perspective on the Ongoing Crisis in Sudan

By Reem Abbas, 26 Apr 2023, WILPF.

Women's Participation in Peace Processes: Sudan Case Study

By the Council on Foreign Relations, 2023.

19 Creators to Follow to Know About What's Happening in Sudan

By Jummanah. 16 Jan 2024, Muslim Girl.

Articles - Activism and Resistance

While we prioritized articles by Sudanese women, those by writers of other backgrounds are also included.

Azza fi Hawak: the Sudanese woman and the protest song

By Soha Hassan. 15 Jul 2019, IMS.

CNN Names Women’s Rights Activist Hala Al Karib Among World’s 30 Gender Equality Defenders

By 500 Words Magazine, 13 Mar 2024.

Courageous Voices: Sudanese Women in Media and Freedom of Expression

By Sudanese Women Rights Action (SUWRA). May 2022.

Discriminatory Laws Shouldn’t Have A Place in Post-Revolutionary Sudan

By Reem Abbas. 5 Jun 2020. African Feminism.

Ensure gender diversity and feminist representation in Fact-Finding Mission on the war in Sudan

By Salma El Hosseiny, 8 Nov 2023, International Service for Human Rights.

Going ‘too far’, ‘too personal’? Insights on Sudanese Women’s Organizing and the Revolution

By Samreen Alkhair. 25 Sep 2019, African Feminism.

Hala Al Karib: The Voice of Marginalised Women in Sudan

By Ola Diab. 8 Jul 2020, 500 Words Magazine.

Holding onto hope: Sudanese youth continue to resist

By InterPares, 20 Feb 2024.

How four Sudanese artists joined forces to preserve the country's cultural past, present and future

By Melissa Gronlund. 10 Aug 2020, The National.

In Sudan, women’s organizations fight back against sexual violence in conflict

19 Jun 2023, UN Women.

'I was raised to love our home': Sudan's singing protester speaks out

By Zeinab Mohammed Salih, 10 Apr 2019, The Guardian.

'I write to expel my fear' - storytelling in the Sudans

By Bhakti Shringarpure, 12 Dec 2014, The Guardian.

Joint Statement: Don’t Leave Sudanese Women and WHRDs Behind

By Sudanese Women rights Action (SUWRA), 7 Aug 2023.

Keep eyes on Sudan

By Omnia Mustafa and Ghaida Hamdun. 11 Mar 2024, Africa is a Country.

Men Fighting, Women Breaking-up: Sudanese Women’s Movements, the Wing of the Patriarch?

By Reem Abbas, 13 Apr 2023, African Arguments.

Outcome Statement from the Feminist Peace and Solidarity Conference

By SIHA Network. 24 Nov 2023.

Patriarchy, Politics and Women’s Activism in Post-Revolution Sudan

By Liv Tønnessen and Samia al-Nagar. Feb 2020, Chr. Michelsen Institute.

Presentations of the Sudanese Women “Peace for Sudan Platform”

UN Women, 12 May 2023.

Protests in Sudan after alleged gang-rape of young woman by security forces

By Zeinab Mohammed Salih, 16 Mar 2022, The Guardian.

Q&A: The civil servant documenting sexual violence in Sudan’s conflict [Interview with Sulima Ishaq]

By Mohammed Amin. 26 Jun 2023, The New Humanitarian.

A regional insight into Sudanese women's participation in the December Revolution

By Yusra Elmobashir Abdalla, et al. March 2023, CMI. [Sudan Working Paper, number 1].

The Resilience of Women in Sudan: An interview with Sudanese physician Sarah Khalifa

By Karen Sherman, 10 Nov 2021, Think Global Health.

Resistance and movement building: Women’s rights in Sudan

By Inter Peres Canada. 9 Dec 2022.

Statement by Ms. Hala Al Karib at the UN Security Council Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security

NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security. 25 Oct 2023.

Sudan: calling for protection of women defenders amidst rising attacks against them

By Salma El Hosseiny, 13 Feb 2024, International Service for Human Rights.

Sudanese Feminist Sisterhood: At the frontline of radical resistance and solidarity

By Reem Abbas and Hala Al Karib, 14 Aug 2023, Alliance Magazine.

Sudanese women advocate for peace at conference in Uganda

By UN Women. 25 Oct 2023.

Sudanese Women and The Making of a Revolution

By Alia Chebbab. 25 Feb 2019, Nadja.

Sudanese Women at the Frontlines of Resistance

InterPares, 18 Mar 2022.

Sudanese Women at the Heart of the Revolution

By Reem Gaafar and Omnia Shawkat. 12 Feb 2019, African Feminism.

Sudanese Women March for Protection Against Gender Based Violence

By Ilaf Nasreldin, 2021, for CMI - Chr. Michelsen Institute.

Sudanese women meet up in Cairo to coordinate efforts for peace

By UNITAMS. 13 Nov 2023, ReliefWeb.

Sudanese Women on the Front Lines of the Resistance

By Hala alKarib. 23 Nov 2021, African Feminism.

Sudanese women seek justice 1 year after pro-democracy crackdown

By Staff and Elana Gordon. 3 Jun 2020, The World.

Sudanese Women’s Resistance Captured in New Book Launched by SORD

By Hend Salih. 21 Mar 2020, Andariya.

Sudan investigates social worker for ‘leaking state secrets’ to UN

By Mat Nashed. 18 Apr 2022, Al Jazeera.

Sudan’s female protesters leading the pro-democracy movement

By Hamza Mohamed. 23 Apr 2019, Al Jazeera.

Women are leading the humanitarian response in Sudan

UN Women, 5 Jul 2023.

The women at the front of Sudan’s political protests

By Umit Bektas. 17 Aug 2019. The Independent.

Women give their perspectives on peace in East Sudan

By Reem Abbas, n.d., CMI - Chr. Michelsen Institute.

The women of Sudan are pushing for a feminist agenda

By Alessandra Bajec. 12 Jul 2021, Equal Times.

The women of Sudan will not accept setbacks

By Rogaia Abusharaf. 3 Mar 2022, Brookings Institution.

Women on the Frontlines: A Feminist Perspective on the Ongoing Crisis in Sudan

By Reem Abbas, 26 Apr 2023, WILPF.

Women's Participation in Peace Processes: Sudan Case Study

By the Council on Foreign Relations, 2023.

Women try to bring peace to war-torn areas in Sudan

By Reem Abbas, n.d., CMI - Chr. Michelsen Institute.

The Year We Change Sudan’s Personal Status Act

By Reem Abbas. 14 Apr 2020, African Feminism.

Articles - Peacebuilding

While we prioritized articles by Sudanese women, those by writers of other backgrounds are also included.

Outcome Statement from the Feminist Peace and Solidarity Conference

By SIHA Network. 24 Nov 2023.

Presentations of the Sudanese Women “Peace for Sudan Platform”

UN Women, 12 May 2023.

Statement by Ms. Hala Al Karib at the UN Security Council Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security

NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security. 25 Oct 2023.

Sudanese women advocate for peace at conference in Uganda

By UN Women. 25 Oct 2023.

Sudanese women meet up in Cairo to coordinate efforts for peace

By UNITAMS. 13 Nov 2023, ReliefWeb.

Women give their perspectives on peace in East Sudan

By Reem Abbas, n.d., CMI - Chr. Michelsen Institute.

Women's Participation in Peace Processes: Sudan Case Study

By the Council on Foreign Relations, 2023.

Women try to bring peace to war-torn areas in Sudan

By Reem Abbas, n.d., CMI - Chr. Michelsen Institute.

Articles - Violence

While we prioritized articles by Sudanese women, those by writers of other backgrounds are also included.

Almost 230,000 children and new mothers could starve to death in Sudan, experts warn

By Lilia Sebouai. 13 Mar 2024, The Telegraph.

Brief: Sudan Women in Crisis: Looming Famine and Health Catastrophe

By Sudanese Women Rights Action (SUWRA). 16 Nov 2023.

Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Sudan

By Insecurity Insight. 2023.

Curating consent: sexual violence, moral politics and gendered agency in Sudan

By Siri Lamoureaux. 2021. Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, 4:1, DOI: 10.1080/25729861.2021.1989859

Darfur rape survivors gather together after ethnically targeted campaign

By Zeinab Mohammed Salih. 14 Mar 2024, The Guardian.

Do not ignore the suffering of Sudanese women

By Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. 24 Nov 2023, Al Jazeera.

In a refugee camp in Chad, Sudanese women are running out of hope

By Alyona Synenko. 15 Dec 2023, Al Jazeera.

In Sudan, It Is a War on Women

By Reem Abbas. 6 Dec 2023, WILPF.

In Sudan, the price of revolution is paid for by women's bodies

By Wini Omer. 14 Jan 2022, The New Arab.

In Sudan, women’s organizations fight back against sexual violence in conflict

19 Jun 2023, UN Women.

Joint Statement: Don’t Leave Sudanese Women and WHRDs Behind

By Sudanese Women rights Action (SUWRA), 7 Aug 2023.

‘Khartoum was lit with savage fire’: five Sudanese writers on the country’s nightmare conflict

By Leila Aboulela, Reem Abbas, Rania Mamoun, Fatin Abbas and Suzannah Mirghani. 2 Jun 2023, The Guardian.

Legal Mobilization to Protect Women against Rape in Islamist Sudan

By Liv Tønnessen and Samia Al-Nagar. 2021. Cahiers d’études africaines, 242, 355-376.

The many mothers of Sudan’s revolution

By Nisrin Elamin and Tahani Ismail. 4 May 2019, Al Jazeera.

Men Fighting, Women Breaking-up: Sudanese Women’s Movements, the Wing of the Patriarch?

By Reem Abbas, 13 Apr 2023, African Arguments.

More rapes recorded in Sudan, ‘authorities should show flexibility with Form 8’

Dabanga, 13 Mar 2024.

'No Woman Feels Safe': Sexual Violence Rampant in Sudan War

By Agence France-Presse. 7 Jun 2023, VOA News.

On first anniversary of coup: Sudan must end systemic violence against women

By Salma El Hosseiny, 25 Oct 2022, International Service for Human Rights.

Protection Brief - Gender-Based Violence - Sudan Situation

UNHCR, 19 Dec 2023.

Protests in Sudan after alleged gang-rape of young woman by security forces

By Zeinab Mohammed Salih, 16 Mar 2022, The Guardian.

Q&A: The civil servant documenting sexual violence in Sudan’s conflict [Interview with Sulima Ishaq]

By Mohammed Amin. 26 Jun 2023, The New Humanitarian.

Sudan: More than 5 months of continuous war and heavy suffering for women - protection, support and UN resolution urgently needed

By Salma El Hosseiny, 13 Sep 2023, International Service for Human Rights.

Articles - Writing and the Arts

While we prioritized articles by Sudanese women, those by writers of other backgrounds are also included.