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Omar Ahmed Al-Qarai (Template:Lang-ar) is a Sudanese journalist and was the director of the Curriculum Center who resigned after being at the centre of controversy because of the new Sudanese curriculum.

Early life and career

Omar Ahmed Al-Qarai was born in the city of Atbara in northern Sudan. Al-Qarai graduated from the Faculty of Economic and Social Studies, University of Khartoum, in 1977.

He worked as an associate professor at Ahfad University for Women and taught master’s students at the Institute for Women and Gender Studies. He also worked in international organisations and cooperated with studies and research centers and women’s organisations inside and outside Sudan. He works as a special consultant in the field of education, women and human rights.[1] Al-Qarai belong to the Republican Brotherhood party.

Curriculum management

Further information: Mohamed El-Amin Ahmed El-Tom § The new curriculum controversy

Al-Qurai’s was chosen as director of the National Center for Curriculum to reform the educational process came after 30 years of the rule of the National Congress Party and Sudanese Revolution, in the government of Abdullah Hamdouk within the transitional cabinet. He was selected due to his speciality in education and its foundations.

A fierce battle ensued involving politicians, clerics, and journalists over proposals to change the school curricula, when a new history book for the sixth grade was leaked. It sparked controversy over the painting "The Creation of Adam" by Renaissance artist Michelangelo.[2] The crisis was exacerbated by the circulation of a video clip of the imam of the mosque, Muhammad Al-Amin Ismail, crying on the Friday's Khutbah, regretting what was stated in the new curricula, before attacking Al-Qarai fiercely.[3] Omar al-Qurai blamed the Minister of Religious Affairs and Endowments, Nasr al-Din Mufreh, for his silence even when some clerics called for his death. Al-Qari had insisted that he would not step down unless a decision was taken to cancel the curricula in response to pressure.

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However, he resigned soon after Hamdok withdrew the new curriculum until it be reviewed and approved.

Stations in his life

  • He studied at Gulf universities, and the last university he worked at was Dhofar University, College of Arts and Applied Sciences, where he worked from September 2017 to August 2019, and worked as a lecturer at the College of Communication, Sociology Division, Ajman University of Science and Technology from 2013 to 2017.
  • He worked as a lecturer at the American University in the Emirates from January 2012 to July 2012, and worked from 2009 to 2012 as a consultant for a company working in the field of information technology and as a consultant for civil society organizations in Sudan.
  • He studied the Arabic language at (Defense Lagoch ​​Institute) Monterey - United States from 2002-2005, and from 2002-2002 he studied theories of education, and the social foundations of education at Ohio University.
  • He taught Arabic to students at Ohio University from 1998-1999.
  • He worked as a researcher in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota from 1996-1997.
  • He worked as a researcher at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies from 1994-1996.
  • He worked as a professor at the Higher Technical Institute, Misrata - Libya from 1991-1994.
  • He worked as an employee at the Civil Savings Bank from 1986-1991.
  • An employee at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning.
  • He worked as director of the National Curriculum Center after the December Revolution and submitted his resignation on 7/1/2021[6]

Scientific life

  • The title of his doctoral dissertation was “Problems and Prospects for Human Rights Education in the Arab-Islamic World - Egypt as a Case Study” and he obtained it in 2000[7]
  • Graduated from the University of Khartoum in Economics and Sociology.
  • He holds a master's degree in agricultural economics from the University of Khartoum.
  • He received another master's degree in international studies from Ohio University in the United States.
  • He received his Ph.D. from Ohio University in Education - majoring in Curriculum Science[8]

See also

  1. ^ "عمر القراي يكتب: ماذا يريد الشعب من الحكومة الجديدة؟! - صحيفة التغيير السودانية , اخبار السودان". web.archive.org. 2019-04-14. Retrieved 2023-02-09.
  2. ^ وكالات, الرؤية ـ (2021-01-04). "مايكل أنجلو يثير الجدل في السودان". صحيفة الرؤية (in Arabic). Retrieved 2023-01-02.
  3. ^ شاهد بكاء الشيخ الدكتور محمد الأمين إسماعيل والمصلين حرقة على ما يفعل القراي, retrieved 2023-02-08
  4. ^ "تغيير المناهج .. صورة عن قرب". صحيفة السوداني (in Arabic). 2021-01-06. Retrieved 2023-01-02.
  5. ^ "د. القراي : حديثهم عن الغاء القرآن من المناهج لا يستحق الرد عليه - النيلين" (in Arabic). 2019-12-04. Retrieved 2023-01-02.
  6. ^ "SudanTimes - من هو مدير المركز القومي للمناهج عمر القراي؟". web.archive.org. 2019-12-23. Retrieved 2023-02-09.
  7. ^ "عمر أحمد القراي لقيادة المرحلة المقبلة... - صحيفة الراكوبة". web.archive.org. 2019-12-23. Retrieved 2023-02-09.
  8. ^ "السيرة الزاتية للدكتور عمر القراي الذى سوف يتعرض لمحاكمة سياسية يوم 29 مايو". web.archive.org. 2016-07-30. Retrieved 2023-02-09.
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