Jamal Mohammed Ibrahim

Ibrahim received The National Order of the Cedar in rank of Senior Officer from the Republic of Lebanon in April 2009.

As novelist, he treated the complex Sudanese identity of African and Arab heritage: In his Nuqṭat talāshī (A Point of Disappearance, 2008), he described one of his characters as “a perfect and typical Sudanese, who has taken something from each background: he has taken his pleasant brown color from Africa, and his loquacity from the Arabs.” In Dafātir Kambālā (The Kampala Notebooks, 2009), he explored the African roots of Sudan through a “philosophical journey” in Uganda. Based on this literary approach, he was described by literary scholar Xavier Luffin as one of the Sudanese writers who included "African names, realistic descriptions of traditions and beliefs, and even words in African languages."

Ibrahim began his work in the Sudanese Ministry of Culture, Information and Tourism between 1973 and 1975, then in the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 1975 and 2009. He served as Sudan's ambassador to Lebanon between 2006 and 2009.

Jamal Mohammed Ibrahim (Arabic: جمال محمد إبراهيم; born 7 April 1949) is a Sudanese poet, novelist and former diplomat. He received his B.A. degree with honors in sociology in 1973 from the University of Khartoum. After two years at the Sudanese Ministry of Culture, he worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1975 to 2009.