Intisar Soghayroun el-Zein

Intisar el-Zein Soughayroun (also: Intsar, al-Zein, el-Zein, Sghairyoun, Segayron; Arabic: انتصار الزين صغيرون) is a professor of archeology at the University of Khartoum. In early September 2019 Soughayroun became the Sudanese Minister for Higher Education in the Transitional Cabinet of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, during the 2019 Sudanese transition to democracy.

Quotes

• My flight back is on July 15th. I hope everything goes well.
• One of my sons called me on Sunday and told me that there were now about 2,000 people outside my nephew's house.
• A little later he called me and said we are now one million.
• I have not been so optimistic. I think the military council must be cornered. But if you think it is good to enter into negotiations, then I am welcome to do so. But I have more faith in protest. We must fight the old regime anyway, and we do not expect to change it overnight.
• My flight back is on July 15th. I hope everything goes well. I need to go back and see my family and my beloved country
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• We went through four to five months of deep negotiations. By the establishment of the Sovereign Council the military and the civilians are in a partnership. We will have to make it work. There is no other choice. Nobody is expecting it to be a fait accompli or easy. I will do it.”
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