Biographies of Sara Mansour Ali

Sara Mansour was born in Madani, Sudan. Mansour and her husband, Essam, lived in Saudi Arabia before immigrating to the United States. They have lived in Rochester since 2001.

Mansour uses a variety of TV, cable, and Internet outlets to report on and write about her native Sudan.

Mansour and her husband maintain a website called Sudanese online.org, a new source and chat room that encourages discussion of Sudanese and Middle Eastern issues.

Mansour has reported on events and issues in her native Sudan as a correspondent for SCOLA TV and for Rochester public access Channel 10.

Mansour has written three books: “The Girls of Khartoum,” “The Girls of Khartoum II” and “Asylum.” A fourth book, on female circumcision, is planned.