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Assistant professor to discuss Darfur-Sudan region |
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Jacob Corkins |
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May 21, 2008
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| Abdel Halim |
Dr. Asma Abdel Halim will give a presentation, “Intellectual Adventures: War, Women and the Legal System in Sudan,” about her year in the Darfur-Sudan region Thursday, May 22, at 3 p.m. in the Catharine S. Eberly Center for Women Conference Room, located in Tucker Hall Room 0180 on Main Campus.
The UT assistant professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies will talk about her experience in the Darfur-Sudan region and her work as an international consultant on human rights and women’s rights that to apply to the conflict in the region.
Genocide has been taking place for years in the Darfur-Sudan region, which Abdel Halim has been studying and is one of the topics she will address.
Abdel Halim has obtained two law degrees in common law and Islamic law and in international commercial law from the University of Khartoum in Sudan and a PhD in Education from Ohio University.
She has published numerous articles and a book,
Sudanese Women in the United States: The Double Problem of Gender and Culture (2006), on women’s rights.
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