Muddathir Abdel-Rahim

He was honored as "Personality of the Year" in the Sudan by the Ministry of Culture on 18 October 2019 for his academic and cultural contributions, especially in connection with the promotion of Human Rights.

He taught in Malaysia where he was Distinguished Professor and Head of the Human Rights Programme at the Islamic University Malaysia (UIM) from 2013 to 2016. He was Professor of Political Science and Islamic Studies and Very Distinguished Academic Fellow at ISTAC from 1997 to 2013. He had earlier taught in universities around the world – including University of Manchester, Temple University, Northern Illinois University, Mohammed V University, Makerere University, Bayero University Kano, and University of Khartoum. He commenced teaching Political Science at the University of Khartoum in July 1958 and became the founding Head of the Department of Political Science at the University in the sixties.

Muddathir was awarded the Jordanian Royal Medal for Distinguished Contributions in August 2013.

He has also been Ambassador to Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland, 1974 – 1975; UNESCO Senior Expert in Social Sciences in charge of Research and Human Resource Development Programme, CAFRAD, in Tangier, Morocco, from 1971 to 1973; and Vice Chancellor of Omdurman Islamic University from 1988 to 1991 where he established faculties of Medicine, Engineering, and Agriculture.

He was also founding member and Secretary General of the Sudanese National Committee for Human Rights which was established in Khartoum in 1967 – evidently the first of its kind in the Muslim world.

As a delegate to the UN General Assembly sessions in the sixties, he participated in the debates that led to the adoption of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 1965, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 1966, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966. In 1967, he participated in drafting UNESCO’s Third Statement on Race and Racial Prejudice.

Muddathir Abdel-Rahim (Arabic: مدّثر عبد الرحيم الطيّب Muddathir ʿAbd Al-Rahim; born in Ad-Damar, Sudan in 1932) is professor of political science in International University of Africa.