Sharif Harir
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Sharif Abdallah Harir (Arabic: جشريف عبد الله حرير, romanized: Šarīf ʻAbd Allāh Ḥarīr) is a Sudanese, Darfuri Zaghawi social anthropologist, politician and a rebel leader.[1][2]
Harir has worked as an lectioner in the Nordic Africa Institute and a professor of social anthropology in the University of Khartoum, before returning to Darfur and becoming deputy chairman and Foreign Affairs Representative of the SLA-Unity faction.[3][4][2][5] In the early 1990s Harir co-founded the Sudan Federal Democratic Alliance with Ahmed Diraige.[6] Harir has been described as one of the first scholars to recognize the dangers of the Tajammu al-Arabi, a rebel group funded by Muammar Gaddafi.[7]