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Ellen Gruenbaum

Ellen Gruenbaum spent five years in Sudan in the 1970s. She returned for further anthropological research in 1989 and again in the spring of 1992.

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The Islamist State and Sudanese Women

The Islamist government in Sudan recently celebrated the third anniversary of the military coup that brought it to power by building a huge public park south of the Khartoum airport, featuring hundreds of hurriedly transplanted trees, bushes and flowers. The impressive determination and efficiency t

Ellen Gruenbaum • 9 min read