Book launch: Constructing Sudan — From the Legitimacy of the Coup to the Legitimacy of the Ballot
Public invitation to the launch of Prof. Mekki El Shibly's new book — Sunday 1 November 2026, 8:30 pm, Andalib Cultural Café, Giza.
Economist · Educator · Development strategist
Professor Mekki Medani El Shibly
A distinguished Sudanese economist, educator, and development strategist working at the intersection of academia, public policy, and Afro-Arab development for more than four decades.
Professor El Shibly holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Kent and trained at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School. He has led food-security, trade, and investment strategies at the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA), the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD), and the Arab Authority for Agricultural Investment and Development (AAAID), and has served as Vice Chancellor of Omdurman Ahlia University and Principal of the University of Medical Sciences and Technology.
- Executive DirectorCognisance Centre for Strategic Studies
- Deputy ChairmanAl Baraka Bank Sudan
- Executive DirectorMamoun Behairy Centre for Economic and Social Studies and Research in Africa
- Deputy ChairHumanitarian Action for Sudan
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Cognisance Centre for Strategic Studies
Policy research for Sudan's peace, reconstruction, and institutional renewal.
Professor El Shibly's policy papers, ceasefire frameworks, and political-economy analyses are published through the Cognisance Centre, the independent think tank he founded and directs.
Book · 2017
Pioneering Private Education in Sudan
ريادة التعليم الأهلي في السودان — من فكرة كري إلى لواء الاستقلال
A history of pioneering private education in Sudan, from the founding of the first modern national school by Sheikh Al-Tahir El Shibly in 1912 to the independence generation it helped shape.
Download the book (PDF, 109 MB) The family's educational legacy →
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