SOWTI - Voices of Sudanese Women
Ellen Ismail and Maureen Makki
Tabaldi Verlag (vm. Verlag Dr. Ellen Ismail-Schmidt)
First Published: June 2011
ISBN 978-3-9801259-4-9
Price 24,00 Euro plus postage
In this rare piece of historical documentation, Sudanese women speak with great openness about their experiences of womanhood in Sudan, including their varied attitudes to issues such as female circumcision, marriage and polygamy, religion, education, and their visions of the future.
In this rare piece of historical documentation, Sudanese women speak with great openness about their experiences of womanhood in Sudan, including their varied attitudes to issues such as female circumcision, marriage and polygamy, religion, education, and their visions of the future.
Dr. Ellen Ismail is a writer and gender specialist with a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Cologne. She married Sudanese ethnomusicologist Mahi Ismail 1957, and moved to Sudan 1960. She lived the first three years in Bakht Er-Ruda before relocating with her family to the Sudanese capital Khartoum where she lived until 1990. Ellen Ismail has worked as lecturer at the University Khartoum and as consultant for national and international development organisations concentrating on projects addressing the needs and rights of Sudanese women and children. She currently works on voluntary basis in the Sudan specialising on women’s issues. Ellen Ismail has written and published several books on Sudanese culture.
Maureen Makki married in Juba in 1961 and moved around the Sudan for the next few years, while her husband was working for the government. Finally they moved to Khartoum where she lived until 1989. Maureen worked for Khartoum University Press as English Editor and later ran a publishing unit in the Graduate College. While in Sudan Maureen had 4 children and took a degree at Khartoum University. Her later career concentrated on working with NGO's, specializing in the Horn of Africa. She goes back to the Sudan on a regular basis.
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BUKRA, INSCHA' ALLAH
- A LOOK INTO SUDANESE CULTURE - New Edition, March 2009
Verlag Ellen Ismail-Schmidt
Bendestorf, Germany
ISBN 978-3-9801259-0-1
Price 13 Euro / 18 USD plus postage
The New Edition, March 2009, is
updated with 3 maps, coloured photos and a detailed directory.
Sudan is a country full of contradictions:
enormous desert and dry savannah in the north, tropical forest
and massive swamps in the South, modern buildings in Khartoum
and thousand year-old ruins at the coast of the Nile. What
brings out the richness of Sudan is the diversity in its people
and the multiplicity of its ethnic make-up.
 
2010: Khartoum and BURJ AL-FATEH
HOTEL in Kharthoum
The book is aimed to give visitors to the
Sudan an insight into Sudanese culture. It describes the
social structure;
behaviour patterns, norms and values, and gives a brief
historical and
political overview of the society there. It explains the
intricacy of the transitional phase between tradition and
modernity.
A chapter on Islam and its influence on the society is
incorporated. It also discusses the impact of tradition and
culture on
Sudanese women. The annex offers practical information
on 'how to?'
access daily necessities; get in touch with key institutions;
explore the 'Three Towns' around Khartoum. A selected bibliography
offers further reading on certain relevant subjects. Phonetically
transcribed words and phrases are included for non-Arabic
speakers.
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Ellen Ismail / Maureen
Makki
WOMEN OF THE SUDAN
Ellen Ismail / Co-Author
Maureen Makki
Verlag Ellen Ismail-Schmidt
Bendestorf, Germany, 1990
ISBN 3-9801 259-1-2
Price 8 Euro plus postage
- Remnants only -
Maureen Makki received an Honour Degree in Linguistics and Anthropology
from the University of Khartoum, Sudan. She worked for many years as publisher
and project officer of a development agency in and outside the Sudan.
The first part of this book discusses the legal status of women in the Sudan
and provides a background on the history of Sudanese women's education and
movement. It also provides some information on female circumcision, female
spirit possession 'Zar' and how culture impacts on a woman's life in Sudan.
The second part of the book documents the voices of 23 Sudanese women from
diverse social backgrounds, ethnic groups and ages. It speaks for itself. Their
stories provide the reader with an insight of the day to day life from a Sudanese
woman's perspective, e.g. marriage, polygamy, divorce, children, female circumcision,
their status in society and their social interactions with men.
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Social Environment and Daily
Routine of Sudanese Women
Kölner Ethnologische Studien, Bd. 6
Berlin 1982 Dietrich Reimer Verlag
ISBN 3-496-00526-2
Sudanese Women and Mass Media
A Survey on Urban Middle Class Women
DSRC No. 53, University of Khartoum
Sudan 1984
The Role of Media on Sudanese Family Life
A Survey on Low Income Groups DSRC
University of Khartoum
Sudan 1985
Female Maturity in the Sudan
A Case study on the third stage of life of Northern Sudanese urban middle class
women,
Development Studies and Research Centre University of Khartoum
Sudan, 1985
(Co-author Fawzia Hamour)
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