Ali B. Ali-Dinar will be speaking on “Genocide in Darfur” at Wagner College on Wednesday, April 11 at 3 p.m. The lecture, part of Wagner’s ACE Event Series, will be given in the Union Building, Room 201. The public is invited..jpg)
Ali-Dinar’s earlier speaking engagement at Wagner College, on Feb. 14, had to be rescheduled for April 11 because of snow.
Ali-Dinar will be introduced by Ahmed Elmahdi, a Wagner College sophomore. Last year, Elmahdi won first prize in Wagner’s Rosa Parks Tribute art contest for his charcoal drawing, “A Singing Portrait,” depicting Asma Mahmoud, an unsung heroine of the Sudanese exile community. (Drawing at left)
Ali B. Ali-Dinar is the outreach director for the African Study Center at the University of Pennsylvania and founder of the Darfur Information Center, a digital online clearinghouse. Widely regarded as an expert on the Darfur Crisis, he is a grandson of the legendary Ali Dinar, last sultan of Darfur.
For Ali-Dinar’s summary of the Darfur Crisis, see his article, “Why Khartoum Wants a War in Darfur,” from the Parliamentary Brief, an official British political journal of similar stature to the Congressional Quarterly.
For further information about the Darfur Crisis, visit the Darfur Information Center online.
