Social Science Research Council

I thank Alex de Waal, Carolyn Fluehr Lobban, Heather Sharkey and Neil McHugh for reading and for your appreciated responses to my book: The First Islamist Republic and for your insightful comments.
The book as its title, The Islamist Republic, indicates and as Heather has rightly characterized is about “Hasan al-Turabi’s decade in power” 1989—1999, which [...]

Part II of The Sudanese Islamists’ Wars: Processes of Disintegration from Khalil to Turabi
Khalil’s War
The mutual hostility among the Islamists has been merciless. However, the same al-Turabi supporters who had subjected other political, social, and ethnic groups to such treatment now complained of their fate, after the state turned against them. But this hostility that [...]

Part I: The Sudanese Islamists’ Wars: Processes of Disintegration from al-Turabi to Khalil
In an interview published on 22 May in the London based Saudi Daily al-Sharq al-Awsat, Khalil Ibrahim, leader of Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) confirmed that he had been part of the Islamist regime of Khartoum when that regime declared its intention to [...]