About the author
Dr. Magdi Ishag Ahmed
Sudanese consultant psychiatrist, academic and writer based in the United Kingdom
Photo: Dr. Magdi Ishag's archive
Short bio
Dr. Magdi Ishag Ahmed is a Sudanese consultant psychiatrist, academic and writer based in the United Kingdom, with more than three decades of experience in psychiatry.
Extended bio
Dr. Magdi Ishag writes on political psychology, love and marriage, awareness, revolution, war and peace, and homeland and exile, offering a psychological and humane reading of people, their relationships and their society.
His books include “The Reality of Sudanese Women: Issues of Love and Marriage”, published by Al-Musawwarat Publishing, Printing and Distribution House in Khartoum. It is a scientific reading, in a social context, of the psychology of love and marriage. It covers women's makeup and history, their present as shaped by custom and tradition, the concepts of love, sex and marriage, the problems of relationships, and the building of mature, balanced bonds.
His articles on Sudanese affairs address the political transition, the crisis of war and asylum, women and love in wartime, racism, and the psychology of destruction and rebuilding. They appear in a number of Sudanese outlets, including Sudanile, Medameek and the Sudanese Studies Centre.