Balqis Badri Receives Pioneering Arab Woman Award at Takreem 2021

Well-known academic and human rights activist Balqis Badri received the ‘Pioneering Arab Woman Award’ at the Takreem 2021 awards ceremony organised by the Arab Union in Beirut, Lebanon on Friday, 3 December 2021.

The Takreem Foundation honoured 10 pioneers and organisations from the Arab world, who excelled in the fields of culture, education, science, environment, charitable work, society and economy. In the category of pioneering Arab women, Badri won.

Bardi is a professor of social anthropology at the Ahfad University for Women. She is the daughter of Youssef Al Badri, who established Al Ahfad University for Women in 1966, and the granddaughter of the Mahdia soldier, Babiker Badri. She began practicing the teaching profession since she was 16 years old by studying in Al Ahfad Schools.

Badri was born in Omdurman in 1948. She graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Khartoum with honours in anthropology and sociology in 1971. She continued to teach after graduating, but the turning point in her career was after she joined Al Ahfad University for Women in 1996.

In addition to being a professor and an academic, Badri is an activist in the field of female circumcision and the development of rural women since 1979.

In addition, she participated in the preparation of training courses for employees of UN organisations in Sudan and the region, including UNICEF, the World Food Program (WFP), the United Nations Population Fund (UNPF), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). She is a regional expert for a number of UN organisations in Sudan. She is also the Director of the Research Department at the Arab Women’s Center for Training and Research in Tunisia.

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