Born:
Marawi, Sudan 1951

Education:
1995. Ph.D, Uppsala University in Sweden
1982. MA, Alexandria University, Egypt
1979. Diploma in Afro-Asian Studies, Khartoum University, Sudan
1974. Diploma of Fine and Applied Art, College of Fine and Applied Art, Khartoum Polytechnic, Sudan
1974. BA, Philosophy, Cairo University in Khartoum, Sudan.

Exhibitions:
Many exhibitions inside Sudan and abroad. Examples: ABF House Stockholm, Sweden, 2001; Oriental Museum, Durham, England, 2000; The 9th Fine Art Exhibition of Arab Artists, al-Sharja, 1989; Cairo International Biennial, 1984; Goethe Institute in Khartoum, 1983.

Publications:

Many publications on artistic and cultural issues. Examples:
- 2001. Political Islam and the Arts: the Sudanese Experience, ISIM Newsletter, No. 8, Leiden: the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

- 2001. Back to Mangu Zambiri: Art, Politics and Identity in Northern Sudan, New Political Sciences, Vol. 23, No. 1, Carfax Publishing, Oxfordshire, UK.

- 2000. Al-Sudanawiyya fi Fikr Ahmed al-Tayyib Zein al-Abdin: 'Ard wa Mudakhala, the Concept of Sudanism in Ahmed Al-Tayyib Zein Alabdin's Thought, A Critical Review, Kitabat Sudaniyya, 12, Cairo: Sudan Studies Centre.
- 1995. The Impact of Islam on African Art in Karin Adal and Berit Sahlström, eds., Islamic Art and Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa, Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis.
- 1995. African Art, An Aesthetic Inquiry, Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis.

Work:
- Researcher, part time lecturer, Department of Aesthetics, Uppsala University, Sweden;
- Former lecturer, the College of Fine and Applied Art, Sudan University of Sciences and Technology ;
Part time lecturer, Khartoum University, Khartoum College of Applied Art
- Former secretary of the Arts Section, the National Council for Arts and Letters.