Guide to Specialists

Albaqir Mukhtar
Senior Fellow, Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program
October 2005 – October 2006

Download print-quality image

Project Focus
On the Fringes of Northern Identity: What's Missing in the Darfur Peace Process

Languages: Arabic

Albaqir Mukhtar is regional campaign coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for Amnesty International, International Secretariat.

He previously served as a refugee project manager in the Family Support Unit of the BIBINI Centre for Young People in Manchester, UK, and was a consultant to Human Rights Watch on sharia law. Mukhtar has taught in various positions, including Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University, in the department of English at the University of Jezira, Sudan, and as a secondary school teacher of English in Sudan.

He holds a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern studies, human rights, and Islamic law from the University of Manchester; a M.Sc. in teaching English from Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom; and a M.Ed. in curriculum studies from the University of Khartoum, Sudan.

Available on usip.org:

• On the Fringes of Northern Identity: What’s Missing in the Darfur Peace Process
  Senior Fellow Project Report Summary, July 24, 2006

Publications:

• Betting on Knowledge: Human Rights Education in the Middle East and North Africa, editor; in Arabic (2000).
• Human Rights in Islamists Discourse, in Arabic (1995).