
Try being a woman playing soccer in Sudan
The guardians of women’s femininity and virtue and their use of public space come up against a women’s football team in the Sudanese capital.
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Steve Howard has worked on Sudan research for 37 years and spent 8 months in Sudan in 2018 on a Fulbright. He is Professor of Media Studies at Ohio University; author of Modern Muslims: a Sudan memoir (2016).

The guardians of women’s femininity and virtue and their use of public space come up against a women’s football team in the Sudanese capital.

After years of divide and rule by President Omar al-Bashir, the youth of Sudan have united to push him out.

In his memoir, the sociologist Steve Howard writes about experiencing Ramadan in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.