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Wini Omer

Wini Omer

Writer and Feminist Activist

  • Khartoum (Sudan)

Wini Omer is a Sudanese writer, journalist and feminist activist. She has a bachelor’s degree in sociology and anthropology and a master’s degree in human rights.

She has been working for the past ten years as part of the Sudanese civil society. Her work and activism focuses on women's protection, feminist epistemology, social movements and state violence. She is currently researching women and history in Sudan. She has three chapters to be published in three different books in 2022, one chapter is on youth activism and social movements in Sudan, another chapter is about Sudanese women’s lives under Islamists rule, and the third chapter is about heritage and culture in Sudan.
 
Twitter: @winiomer

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