Soughayroun is a professor of
archaeology at the
University of Khartoum.[2] She is involved in ongoing scientific collaboration with the
University of Bergen in Norway.[3][2] Her research interests include the archaeology of Islam in Sudan.[5] She has worked on the site of Qasr Wad nimieri, which is 470 km north of Khartoum.[6] She studied for her MA and her PhD at the
American University in Cairo, with a doctoral dissertation examining Islamic domed tombs in Sudan; she graduated from her PhD in 1986.[7]
Soughayroun was co-director of the
Meroe Archival Project, which was a collaboration between the
University of Reading and the University of Khartoum.[8]
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abAhmed, Abdul Rahman Ali; Ahmed, Salah eldin Mohamed; Soughayroun, Intisar el-Zein; Håland, Randi (20 May 2015).
"Researching and managing the archaeological past in Sudan". Chr. Michelsen Institute.
Archived from the original on 5 September 2019. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
^El-Zein, I.S., 2010. Qasr Wad Nimeiri and its qubbas. Sudan and Nubia, 14, pp.91-95.
^Edwards, David N.; Osman, Ali; Tahir, Yahia Fadl; Sadig, Azhari Mustafa; el-Zein, Intisar Soghayroun (1 December 2012). "On a Nubian frontier — landscapes of settlement on the Third Cataract of the Nile, Sudan". Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa. 47 (4): 450–487.
doi:
10.1080/0067270X.2012.727615.
ISSN0067-270X.
S2CID154588776.