…and Ibrahim Al-Badawi as a continuation of the enlightened constellation of economists
- I sang this morning with the song” Sesame Al-Qaddaref”
- She tells those wishing to prepare for graduate studies abroad that it is not difficult to combine childcare with study.
- On SSSUK, I see that this association can offer a lot to Sudan and South Sudan
Our sincer appreciayion to Dr. Iman Sharif, who did not hesitate to respond to our invitation to her to give us a special dialogue in our quest to add a crucible of the best academics of the country and inform our expats about our common goal in developing popular bilateral relations and making a tangible change in their host countries for the better and lasting future in all fields,here especially the ‘country of the diaspora’, the United Kingdom, because of the historical ties that bind us
** I won’t prolong Dr. Iman Sharif, tell us about Iman Sharif, the doctor, the academic and the Sudanese-British citizen, and I also add the ‘French connection’ at length?
Thank you our veteran journalist professor Hatem Madani very happy to be with you – I am Iman Al-Fadhil Jack Sharif Sudanese born and bread, but fate wanted me to move between the cities of Western Europe, sometimes for university study and sometimes for married life and work, I was one of the lucky ones who received university studies in France in the footsteps of my father, may Allah have mercy on him, who preceded me by years to it, where he studied university there as well as his post-university studies before returning to the country, I am I and it was stages where after the certificate exam High school, I traveled with my father to Lyon in France to study language and then university, and then I went back to Sudan, I spent one year, and that year I met my husband Tariq, who was preparing to travel to Britain to complete his major, so fate wrote about travel and immigration.
**Tell us when and how you decided to emigrate from the homeland and about that period with its advantages and advantages?
After marriage, I accompanied my husband Tariq to Britain to complete his scientific specialization, and we did not intend to stay after mastering and graduation, but things became very easy to settle down and work, and so it became our headquarters, especially after the girls entered schools and education. It became home, as our foreign parents say.
** We will be surprised if I am pleased to tell you that I have two brothers who are economists and (for God knows) does not understand even the simplest academic principles and practical battle of economics. It is very difficult for me to understand what I call the economic confusion in Sudan, since we have so many of the highest academics in it, why do you think this is so?
The reason is political instability and kidnapping of the state.. Sudan is a country that made a good start in world peace in our early days before independence. We had veteran economists who had a vision and knew the country’s potential and the dimensions of its problems, but the kidnapping of the state prevented everyone from putting their hands in the right place
*** I heard you talk about your participation in dialogue forums on the economy and the economic situation in general in Sudan with your peers, enlighten us about the conclusion of these deliberations in your opinion and whether they can be practically seeded on the ground in Sudan.
Indeed, because of the change and the fall of the Bashir regime, everyone has come to meet and gather around seminars and lectures from various Sudanese specialists from different parts of the world and they have given very valuable lectures that can be references in various disciplines, but also I can say that Sudan is full of experties and specialists in various paths of science, and not as we thought during the days of the (Al-Ingaz) only, where people are scattered in different parts of the world, but we gathered Sudan, the Internet, and Zoom, all these meetings facilitated and will undoubtedly emerge from them a scientific movement that carries This country is where it deserves.
** If you are selected as responsible for the finance portfolio in the transitional period or as a consultant within the team, what are the corrective steps in the number you will claim and which in your opinion will represent the right starting point?
I hope to work on the development and development of the traditional economy sector in Sudan, which constitutes more than 80% if the statistics are correct, in this sector the stability of the country and also in it sustainability, as the International Labour Organization predicted in its report in the seventies of the last century, because of this sector, the Sudanese countryside was completely free of unemployment because of the preoccupation of its people with agriculture and pastoralism, even on a small scale. In this sector there is abundant good and a bright future that must be supported, developed and developed
*** The country’s dire economic situation is no secret , who bears the most blame since the seventies, which our citizen considers the beginning of the years of economic collapse.
Perhaps the nationalization policies adopted by the Nimeiri regime are in line with what the regime of President Abdel Nasser did in Egypt
All the boom achieved by the Sudanese economy before and after independence was due to only one crop, white gold cotton alone. It did all these miracles in Sudan, although our lands were not exploited by the size of their potential. Even livestock was not included in our exports during the days of cotton, yet it provided us with stability and important economic infrastructure until policies were swinged and the state was hijacked again and again.
** I’m going back to this hump of my dialogue, but let me take you out in this dialogue to the world of art and music, tell me about a song you sang this morning and the occasion of its connection to your mind?
Sesame Al-Gadaref — The reason is that the friend of the artist Hind Taher, who lives in France, directed a new video clip reproducing the song and I still sing about it
Great choice really worth listening We share it from our side here to present it to all of you in the voice of the immortal artist Aisha Al-Falatiya (clip from the Internet)
** As we are about musical art, do you play any musical instrument? Has it ever happened that you participated in the theater with a song, even in the way of a popular karaoke or at home?
Personally, I don’t know a machine, but how much I wished, but my daughters Alaa and Noon both love playing Ala, she plays the violin since she was young, and now I see her turning to guitar and Noon playing the flute skillfully and passed several exams in it and seeks to master it so that she can play Sudanese songs…
**Of course, I have not forgotten to ask you if you are a fan of the famous program that was presented by the late Sir Kaddour or are you a fan of modern art of the new generation.
Of course, the program was waiting for all of Sudan, may God have mercy on his late presenter, Mr. Al-Sir Qaddour. The program is a documentation of the history of music in Sudan for the current generations that were deprived of the blessing of quality education. It also contributed to finding and attending beautiful voices on the scene that made people happy in the difficult circumstances of our country. Mr. Al-Sir, the role of the highest paradises
** In the same context, we return to the Sudanese economy, there has been a lot of controversy about the importance of tearing up the wheat import bill, some suggest the importance of changing the food pattern, but the majority is with the expansion of its cultivation, where are you from this dialogue as a position for you?.
We in Sudan have alternatives to wheat. I’m with tearing up its bill. It’s not to dispense with it completely, but to make our products competitive with it at home. We need strong leadership. For that, all Africa will move towards this direction. The conditions of the world have imposed this. Why don’t we dispense with it? We have alternatives. We need strong political leadership and it has a vision. Also, the big institutions that made their glory from importing wheat can help us in that to turn to local products from the inside and become Global and not by importing from abroad
**We did not ask you who is the best Minister of Finance in terms of facing the challenges of his economic period in the history of Sudan? Which of the transitional period drew your attention to his economic policies and your opinion in that period in terms of economic policies?
The best Minister of Finance that passed on Sudan in my opinion is the late Dr. Abdul Rahim Mirghani because at his hands it was or a national economic program for the country as well as do not forget Dr. Mamoun Beheiry, who transferred Sudan to a regional and international transition Dr. Mamoun Beheiry is the founder of the African Development Bank and was its president for several periods as well as helped several African countries that became independent after Sudan helped them to transfer economic knowledge that suits developing countries and that we used in Sudan before them including Ivory Coast economic knowledge in the sense of The economic model that is used to calculate the economy and devise policies that must be applied and I do not forget as well the late Hammad Tawfik, the first Minister of Finance after independence and the founder of the Agricultural Development Bank.
In my opinion, the best Minister of Finance after the Glorious Revolution is Dr. Ibrahim El-Badawi, which is a continuation of the bright constellation of economists produced by this good country, and I expect a lot from him in what is coming from programs to raise this country
*** They say that unless we find a solution to the fuel bill, we should not think about the wheat bill with the global energy situation today, what will be the solution to this dilemma?
We need a revolution at home, I mean a soft revolution to change our wheat habit, but fuels to dispense with needs investments in the field of electric power. I don’t know how long this will take if instability continues in Sudan, God forbid.
*** Are you with the supporters of debt or in this case the extended ones to push the wheel of development or do you think that priority should be given to local financing and encouraging the exporter or in other words our dependence on what we have only in the next stage?
I also believe that domestic funding will not be enough to fix the economy. Not borrowing but partnerships we need international regional partnerships to invest in our development sectors
*** Tell me about the policies of the recent transitional period from your point of view economically, were you satisfied with the steps taken or not and what would you suggest if you were part of their economic teams?
Of course, because the revolution was great and its sacrifices were great, we were eager for an excellent performance.. But the first dilemma that Dr. Hamdok faced and we did not pay attention to is that they were new to dealing with the Sudanese reality after thirty years of Bashir’s rule. Certainly this was not easy. Also, the political dispute over power was very disturbing and certainly annoying. The most important thing is that they actually worked in difficult circumstances
**A special question for the 2022 World Cup at the doors, who are you cheering for this time, especially since your beloved country for yourself will be participants?:
I am. I encourage the nice game regardless of the competing teams we hope that it will make a breakthrough teams that we have not heard of before this gives great hope
** I can only extend our thanks and appreciation for the opportunity to get to know you and to offer our readers an invitation to share their opinions and get to know you closely and before concluding this quick dialogue with you I have jusut five short questions if you would kindly address them in points:
**What is your advice to Sudanese expatriate academic women in terms of the doors of the academic ladder here and in France?
Reaching as far as we can is a great opportunity and we are outside the country to pursue attainment in these great universities where we are. This is from serving humanity as a whole and serving our dear country
**What is your advice to her as well in wrestling between raising children here and work and academic achievement?
Of course the task is not easy, but by organizing everything is possible, and life in this country is organized and easy and there is no suffering, so why not?
*** Advice that you wished to say to the Sudanese community in Britain and France?
Oh (Yaa Rhett), all the Sudanese must gather in organizations to serve our beloved country. Sudan
** What would you advise our British peers and friends in Sudan and those youth who intend to visit or reside in it?
I encourage them very much to communicate with Sudan and extend a helping hand I mean logistical assistance to us I know an association that its founder was studying English in Sudan since that time the foundations of the association of its participants go to Sudan to spend periods and during their stay they hold classes to strengthen the English language This is Lab. To communicate and be supported and the Sudanese community here can play an important role in support and networking
*** What are the Sudanese-British organizations, associations and components here that see the importance of coordinating their communication with each other to benefit and communicate their message or services better?
SSSUK I see that this association can offer a lot to Sudan and South Sudan based on employees who worked in Sudan and South Sudan was a reason to change their lives even after they left it I hope that its work will continue because they are doing a great job publishing research in various fields related to Sudanese affairs they have really become a reference
