Abstracts of contributions written in Arabic

Dr Abdulbasit Merghani, In search of The Beautiful Being
The researcher advocates that it is possible for Sudanese psychologists to play a certain role in the marking out of the essential features of the  Identity, Citizenship and Personality, before more blood is shed  in senseless identity conflicts . The here and now is the time for such an endeavor, Dr. Mirghani claims, though very late, it is definitely better than never.
In light of the presently relevant ethnic and geographic complexity of Sudan, Dr. Mirghani chooses to focus his research on the cultural personality, encouraged by the fact that the recent history of Sudan is laden with a rich cultural heritage, documenting for the Sudanese personality in its engagement in creative national movements. The researcher discusses in his paper various theories , of contradictory positions though , including those of Gordon Allport , Sigmund Freud , Ericsson,  Erich Fromm and Abraham Maslow , together with various Sudanese thinkers and writers who have documented for the Sudanese cultural movement.

Dr. Abd Al-Basit is a specialist in Psychiatry, working for the University of Gezira and author of a book on the Sudanese personality. He is an active member of The Sudanese Writers' Union.

Dr Nahed Mohamed al-Hassan: Psychological Projections of the Question of Identity as Reflected in Sudanese Folk Tales
This research firstly tackles the psychological function of identity at the level of the subjective and collective individuality and the significance of belonging from the perspective of psychology and the conception of identity’s connotations.  Then it moves towards studying folk tales from the standpoint of their impacts on the Sudanese character and of that of whether it is still an effective analytical tool inasmuch as it is shadowed by the eventual extinction of the Habbuba’s (i.e., Grandmother/Story teller’s) institution.  And, from there, it finally sets on studying the values and general trends of the Sudanese character and its attitude towards the question of identity, concluding with instances of such folk tales.
The research’s conclusion involves a summary of the most important and basic features of this study.  That is in an attempt to unmask areas of vulnerability in the Sudanese character that would be harmful to national unity, peace and thus initiating other paths unfolding towards a promising future  horizons.

Dr. Nahed Mohamed al-Hassan is a doctor specializing in neuropsychiatric, Human rights’ activist and press writer

Abdalla Adam Khatir, Political state of affairs and Federal Governance: Challenges and chances for Success.
This paper attempts to open a discussion on the possibility  of steering the Sudanese political experiment towards unity in diversity by proposing different arrangements , most important among them is the successful completion  of the process of peaceful  transfer of power through democratic elections. It also involves consolidating the sentiment of belongingness to the homeland based on a solid knowledge principle. This principle represents an approach for tolerant acceptance of criteria of political competition and that of peaceful settlement of ethnic conflicts by adopting a decentralism model derived from the multicultural and multi-party political realities of the Sudan.

Abdalla Adam Khatir is a civic society activist and member of Sudan Writers Union.  

Dr Osman Ibrahim Osman, Policies of admission to Higher Education under scrutiny
This paper attempts to handle the issue by shedding light on the chaos created by the Government of Sudan in the educational strategies in general and in the structural foundations of education in the Sudan in particular .After 1989 ,  ( the onset of the coup that brought Al-Bashir  to power) the strategy of higher education was based on  marginalizing or sidelining vocational and technical education , if not its liquidation all together . Dr. Osman puts forward his proposals for revitalizing higher education and reinstituting technical education by setting admission polices to higher educational institutes which provided better chances for graduates of technical schools and seeks to improve technical education.

Dr Osman Ibrahim Osman was the dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Khartoum (2002-2005). He obtained  a B.Sc. in Chemistry  at Khartoum University , 19981 ; an M.Sc.  In Physical chemistry 1983 and a PhD.  in Molecular Spectroscopy at the University of Sussex in 1986.