bayan abubakr

bayan abubakr is a writer, researcher, and archivist based between the united kingdom and the united states. her academic and advocacy work focuses on and addresses sudan's historical and contemporary dilemmas as they relate to issues of racialization, militarization, and global and local empire-making schemes. bayan's dissertation, "the forty days’ road & the world around it: race, slavery, and society in ottoman-egyptian sudan, 1840-1924," centers sudan in trans-saharan and ottoman histories of slavery and circuits of capital. she reads ottoman turkish, arabic, and english sources to examine the nineteenth-century history of slavery in ottoman-egyptian sudan as a constituent element of the economic, social, and intellectual routes comprising the global trade of black enslaved peoples.