Hashim El-Tinay

I am an independent researcher, thinker, author, blogger, public speaker, innovator, social entrepreneur, educator and a social and economic justice and peace advocate. I am an American citizen and a native of Sudan.

I am owner of Bridges21communications, a communications and a public affairs, interpretation (Arabic, English and French) firm. I have a deep knowledge of African, Arab, Middle Eastern, and insights on Western cultures in general and French and American Cultures in particular, whence the bridging.

My diversified professional experience and career spanned four continents. I started by serving as a Sudanese diplomat in Paris, France, Lagos Nigeria and Khartoum, Sudan.

Because of persecution for my liberation, transformation and renewal ideas in Sudan I resigned from the Sudanese diplomatic service and decided to go on exile. I obtained political asylum in Paris, France in 1985 where I lived for 20 years.

Since 1996 I moved to Washington D.C., the capital of the United States where I now live. Between 1973 and 1975 I worked as Associate Secretary General of World University Service (WUS), an international human rights organization, based in Geneva, Switzerland.

I designed, fund-raised and helped grass roots communities in Africa to implement education for liberation projects and programs as part of the African liberation struggle in general and for a democratic South Africa in particular.

My first visit to the New World was by an invitation from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) to speak to students in Canadian campuses from coast-to-coast in 1973 to make the case against the Apartheid system in South Africa.

My first visit to the USA was to have a meeting in New York with David Rockefeller, President of the Rockefeller Foundation, to seek funding for the South African education for liberation program that I was in charge of.

I had a 2 year stint with the World Bank's Information and Public Affairs Department, as a public affairs specialist in Washington, D.C. from 1975 to 1978. I was in charge of Bank media and external relations with African and Middle Eastern countries.