Sondra Hale

Sondra Hale is Research Professor and Professor Emerita, Anthropology and Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is the author of Gender Politics in Sudan: Islamism, Socialism and the State and co-editor Sudan’s Killing Fields: Political Violence and Fragmentation. She is the co-founder and former co-editor of The Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies.

Sudanese feminists, civil society, and the Islamist military

Despite being circumscribed by an Islamist-military government, the NGO/civil society participation of progressive women in Sudan has become a quasi-movement in and of itself, representing a robust initiative on behalf of women and youth.

By Sondra Hale

/ 12 Feb 2015