notes on sudan

Khartoum / The Garden Cinema The screening on 1 December will be followed by a Q&A with co-director Phil Cox, hosted by curator Sally Zarzour. In 2022, Sudanese filmmakers, in collaboration with a British writer / director, an Ir...

This is also screening in London on 1st December at the Garden Cinema (link: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/khartoum/) and on 16th December at Curzon cinema in Soho (link: www.curzon.com/films/kharto...).

Screenshot excerpt from the article linked in previous post.

Never told him this when he was alive but realising how much everything I've written is simultaneously about my father, and also very deliberately not about my father. Even though I avoided writing about experiences of imprisoned minors, he/their ghosts still emerge in the stories of others.

having overthrown every dictator we'd ever had, lots of arab analysis in 2019 read the revolution as a "delayed arab spring" when it was the 3rd dictator sudanese ousted. but arab news outlets do actually platform sudanese analysts in sudan from diff movements which is more than western media 2/2

diff arab govts are aligned with diff factions in sudan & sometimes (def not always) that's represented in their state-owned media (eg aljazeera being qatari, al-hadath saudi). but also arab analysts can be v paternalistic/ignorant of their ignorance on sudan, e.g. despite sudanese... 1/2

Rare for me to defend Arab TV but one of the things about being in Cairo is that most Arabic language news channels - eg Aljazeera mubashar, Al Hadath - actually report daily and in-depth on Sudan. And regularly have analysts actually based in Sudan on their news shows.

dick cheney was still alive?????

If you're in London, this documentary is screening tomorrow at Curzon (Bloomsbury): www.curzon.com/films/dochou...
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There have been years of people ignoring what’s happening in Sudan. The only reason that it’s a news story today is because it’s so bad that you can see the literal bloodshed from the NASA satellites! How dare you center yourself in such a way while people are being raped and killed?!

all of this 💯!!

don't tell me she's on here as well i thought this was just twitter sociopathy! 😭 me and countless sudanese mutuals were telling her to fuck off and she did an equally insufferable follow-up basically saying something like "people are misinterpreting me" no we're not!! beyond shameless.

my blood pressure hit the roof because do you know how much of a demon you must be to see people identifying corpses & blood stains seen from space & your 1st thought is "ok but nancy in oklahoma hasn't gotten a call from hr for posting about sudan so it's not so bad" why are you centring your CV?!

I reactivated twitter for four days before deactivating again. It wasn't even the direct racism & nazi shit but that as blood and corpses flooded El Fasher, Americans/Brits were doing up "no one is getting called up by HR for posting about Sudan though" - that algorithm rewards sociopaths.

Resistance committees reporting hundreds of unaccompanied young children arriving from El Fasher who lost their families in the last few days.

I can't watch survivor testimonies for more than 2 mins but there are so many echoes of the worst and most unforgivable legacies of the previous regime.

These and other Sudanese media have been reporting closely on the fall of El Fasher. Please stop saying "nobody" is reporting on Sudan - our journalists and others risking their lives on the ground are not "nobody".
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... that El Fasher was not defeated but betrayed [....]

Glory and immortality to the martyrs

Glory to those who remained steadfast to the very end..."

Arabic text of announcement by El Fasher resistance committees

From El Fasher resistance committees. I don't have space to translate it all but:

"Today the city has fallen but it's dignity remains. The bodies are gone but it's spirit remains, soaring over the walls and streets, guarding what remains... every stone bears witness that [we] did not surrender...

Arabic text of the announcement by resistance committees of El Fasher.

El Fasher resistance committees reporting that large numbers of volunteers in community kitchens were martyred as they tried to help civilians amidst fighting. This comes on the back of mass captures and executions by the RSF reported in the last 24 hours since the RSF captured the city.

I wish people had listened to our journalists in El Fasher before they were captured and disappeared, and I wish people had listened to our revolutionaries before they were executed.

$53 (USD) for a single kilogram of rice in El Fasher.....

CBSH (v1-07.24) Comprehensive Bibliography of Sudanese History (v1-07.24)

For those interested, I have been working for quite some time on a bibliography for modern Sudanese history. The PDF is freely available (www.academia.edu/121191857/CBSH_v1_07_24_) and I have also created a Zotero group open to everyone. This is still a work in progress.

thanks for sharing!

Black and white photo of a young Mohammed Wardi playing a oud, with the words "Ameer al-Hosn" next to him indicating the title of the song.

Album cover with a photograph of the musician Gisma on the cover.

Two initiatives digitising Sudanese music, each with a collection of hundreds of digitised old Sudanese songs.

1. Waves of Sudan (YouTube: m.youtube.com/@wavesofsudan)

2. Sudan Tapes Archive (SoundCloud: m.soundcloud.com/sudantapesar...)

(h/t @coloursburntin.bsky.social)
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Yes pls - thanks so much for sharing

Elnour - online collection of hundreds of digitised vintage Sudan photographs by various Sudanese photographers. www.elnour.org/photographers/

Home | Tales of Jewish Sudan History, Memories and Recipes from the former Jewish Community of Sudan

Tales of Jewish Sudan - histories, photographs, and recipes from Sudan's little-known Jewish community. Much of the memories here are from interviews and photographs the author has conducted with the diaspora. www.talesofjewishsudan.com

🧵 Thread of resources on various aspects of Sudanese history/archival attempts (loosely defined). Will be slowly adding to this throughout the week, focusing on the labour of individuals/smaller scale attempts rather than larger grant-funded institutional ones. Feel free to add.

Trade Union Act 2016
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I do not like the way people are increasingly acting like I'm the weird one for not using ChatGPT.....

Perfect timing ahead of a trip with students later this term to The Story, home of County Durham archives, where Mustapha's photographic images and life story feature as part of the Durham Light Infantry collection. 🗃️📜📷📸