Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim

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Background information
Birth name Fatima Ahemd Ibrahim
Born Sudan 1933
Origin Omdurman Sudan
Years active 1940s -2000s

'Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim'(1933- ),Arabic 'فاطمة أحمد إبراهيم ',sudanese writer and, women rights activist,Socialist leader.

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[edit] Early life

Fatima was born in Khartoum ,her family one of educated family at that time,her grandfather was a headmaster to the first Sudanese School for boys and as the same time Imam in his neighbourhood's mosque.Fatima 's Father graduated from Gordon Memorial College and works as a teacher,and Fatima's mother among the earlier generation of girls whom tended the school. Fatima grew up during the time of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan colonial in Sudan, when her father expelled from teaching in a government school when he refused to teaching lessons by English, then her father moved to teach in a popular school.

[edit] Career

Fatima joined Omdurman Girls' Secondary School,and her activities towards women rights started from that time,she published a wall newspaper calledElra'edda,or by Arabic الرائدة or by English Vanguard or The Pioneer girls, her newspaper focuses on the women rights and also she wrote in newspapers at that time by code name.Fatima conducted the first women strike in Sudan and the reason of strike her school administration decided to omit the science lessons and replced it by Family science lesson and the strike was successed.Fatima her activities not stop in a school in 1947 founded Intellectuall Women Association, in 1952 she contributed with other women for foundation Aletahad Elnees'y Alsodanni or Arabicالاتحاد النسائي or Sudanese Women's Union, and Fatima became a member in executive committee, then the a sphere of action of Women's Union open a membership to all women in Sudan and WU open branches in different provinces in Sudan. The agenda of Women's Union at that time according to the amendment to it's constitution in 1954 ,right to vote and women suffruge and right of represented in all legislative,political,administrative co corporations, and the equality with men in wages and technical training, remove the illiteracy among the women etc,because of objective of Women's Union especially the political right the involving in clashes with Jabihat El-methaiq elaslami or ISlamic Pledge Front. In 1955 Fatima became achieff editor of Sawat al-Maraa Magazine or Woman's voice Magazine (it published by Women's Union),and this magazine later plays essential role in overthrown of Ibrahim Abboud rergime.In 1954 Fatima's joined toSudanese Communist Party(SCP),and in short period Fatima's became a member in Centeral Committee of SCP(SCP the first Sudanese Party women had formation inside the party since 1946 ).In 1956-1957 Fatima's became a president of Women's Union, and one of her objective the independenty of the union from her affiliation and the domination of SCP, and she widened the participation of women with the difference backgrounds. In 1965 Fatima was elected to enter the parliament,and she was successed,to became the first deputy Sudanese women.In 1969 ,when Jaafar Muhammad al-Nemieri took a power by military coup with supported by SCP, activties of Women's Union were spread out and women gained many rights in difference fields, but the honeymoon between Sudanese Communist party and Jaafar al-Nemieri was ended after ahuge dispute which leds in July 1971 to militry coup supported by SCP leaded byHashim Elatta,but the coup failed after afew days in a power and Nimiri returned to power again which led to execution to the leaders of coup and SCP and among them Alshafi Ahmed Elshikh a workers union leader and the husband's of Fatima, after that Fatima put in home arrested for nearly couple of years,and also arrested for many time during the Nemieri's regime.In 1990 Fatima left Sudan after the Omar Hassan al-Bashir military coup, and joined the opposition in the exile as a President of the banned Sudanese Women's Union. In 1991Fatima was elected President of the International Democratic Women’s Union .She returns to Sudan in 2005 after reconciliation between the government and Opposition, and currently she has appointed as a deputy in a parliament representing the SCP. Her brother also writer and involve in politicsSalah Ahmed Ibrahim,she had one son for her husband elshafi,his named Mohammed ahmed

[edit] Awarded

  • She received a UN award for Outstanding Achievements in the Field of Human Rights.(1993)
  • Awarded Ibn Rushd Prize(2006) from Ibn Rushd Fund For Freedom of Thought

[edit] Works

  • Hassadanna Khill'al Ashroon A'mm'a ,Arabic حصادنا خلال عشرين عاماً ,or (Our Harvest During Twenty Years).Khartoum: Sudanese Women's Union Press, n.d.
  • Tariqnu ila el-Tuharur, (Our Road to Emancipation)." (n.d.).
  • el-Mara el-Arabiyya wal Taghyir el-Ijtimai, Arabic المرأة العربية والتغيير الاجتماعي or The Arab Women's and The Social Change.1986
  • Holla Gadie'a alahoal al-shekhssia,Arabic حول قضايا الأحوال الشخصية

or Personal Status Affairs.

  • Gadie'a Alm'ar'a el-A'mela Al-sodania, Arabic قضايا المرأة العاملة السودانية ,or The Affairs of Sudanese Workers Women's.
  • An'a Awaan Eltageir Lakeen!,Arabic !آن آوان التغيير ولكن or It's Time for Change but!
  • Atfallana we'l Re'aia El-sehi'a,Arabic أطفالنا والرعاية الصحية ,or Our Children and Health Care.
  • Arrow at Rest. In Women in Exile, ed. Mahnaz Afkhami, 191-208: University Press of Virginia, 1994.
  • Sudan's Attack on Women's Rights Exploits Islam. Africa News 37, no. 5 (1992): 5.

[edit] References/External links

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