Ahmed Ibrahim Abushouk is professor of modern and contemporary history at Qatar University since 2012. Prior to this, he taught at the International Islamic University in Malaysia from 1999-2012. He has authored more than 25 books and 70 articles on the history of the Sudan and other subjects, including The Hadrami Diaspora in Southeast Asian: Identity Maintenance or Assimilation; Sudan: Power and Heritage; The Sudanese Revolution, 2018-2019: An Analytical and Documentary Approach of its Motives, Stages and Challenges; and The Historian Yusuf Fadl Hasan.