Amir Ahmad Nasr

Amir Ahmad Nasr (Khartoum, 1986) is a Sudanese blogger and digital media and marketing consultant. He is the writer of an English-language blog, The Sudanese Thinker.

Early life and education Born in Khartoum, Nasr was raised in Qatar and Malaysia. Raised by parents who were not particularly pious Muslims, he began his education at Islamic schools in Qatar and Kuala Lumpur. Nasr became more and more devout, but later, as a teenager in Kuala Lumpur, he encountered young liberal-minded Muslims online and in person and began to question his faith. He started his own blog, on which he recorded his shifting religious views.

Other writings In a June 2011 article for the Guardian, he wrote that the secession of what is now South Sudan would not end Sudan's “Afro-Arab identity crisis” or “magically turn the country into a genuinely Arab Islamic nation-state despite what Omar al-Bashir may want.” On the contrary, he wrote, “Sudan always has been and always will be a multi-ethnic, multi-religious melting pot.”

In January 2012, he wrote an article for Al Jazeera, titled "Reviving the "New Sudan vision. The article is about John Garang, the Southern Sudanese Christian rebel turned-statesmen.

In June 2012, he wrote an article for Foreign Policy entitled “Sudan Needs a Revolution.” He suggested that the tide was “shifting against Bashir,” and that “most Sudanese citizens aren’t yearning for more Islamism, but are instead focusing on and demanding better economic conditions, transparency, and accountability.” While “this battle will ultimately be fought and won by Sudanese, the international community also has an important role to play.”

Other professional activities Nasr is a contributor to Global Voices Online. He organized The Future of Islam In the Age of New Media, an online audio seminar featuring 60 speakers. Nasr's blog was a three-times finalist for the Weblog Awards.