Arts and Culture

Sudanese-Canadian rapper Mouraine released a new album, In Search of Gold, on 5 May 2023. Mouraine teamed up with Westside Boogie on “Big Dawg,” from his forthcoming album, In Search of Gold. It is buzzing with confidence and bass, with Westside Boogie’s...

The film follows the story of a life of teenage girl living with social rules and obligations, and traditions and customs. Can she choose for herself?  Short films have always been challenging in their storytelling due...

Heroic Bodies, a new Sudanese documentary film by Sudanese filmmaker Sara Suliman, received the Audience Award at the Malmö Arab Film Festival (MAFF) 2023. MAFF is the leading and largest film festival dedicated to Arab cinema...

Goodbye Julia, the debut feature from Sudanese filmmaker Mohamed Kordofani, has been selected to screen at this year’s Cannes Film Festival 2023 or Festival de Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section, a milestone for Sudan, marking the country’s...

Sudanese American Medical Association (SAMA) is set to launch Art for Sudan on 29 April 2023, selling canvas paintings by Sudanese artists online and at Downtown Gallery. ‘Art, knowledge and health bring people together and promote...

Sudanese Arabic is a beautiful dialect, yet it is almost unknown to the outside world. Even to some who are of Sudanese descent, but grew up in a different country the language may be foreign. Virtually...

A mysterious burnt corpse appears one morning in Saraaya, a remote border town between northern and southern Sudan. For five strangers on an NGO compound, the discovery foreshadows trouble to come. Weaving a sweeping history of...

How do you make a place like Twin Falls, Idaho home? It was December. Sudanese wedding season, as anyone could tell you, and the Sudanese people of Idaho were hype. Life in Idaho, like life in...

Heroic Bodies, a new Sudanese documentary film by Sudanese filmmaker Sara Suliman, has made its debut at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2022, one of the leading documentary festivals in the world. صور ومقتطفات من...

Award-winning Sudanese-Scottish writer Leila Aboulela is to publish a new novel, River Spirit, on 7 March 2023. The novel explores the imperialist history of Sudan during the Mahdist War in the 19th century. The US edition...