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Sudanese Perfume and Incense Brands
The Realities of War Through the Eyes of Sudanese Artists
Sudanese Toub Designers and Brands You Should Follow
Books
Reem Gaafar’s “A Mouth Full of Salt” Coming Out on 9 April
Zeinab Badawi Announces Publication of Her First Book “An African History of Africa”
New Book “100 Sudanese Verbs for Beginners” is All You Need to Master Verbs in Sudanese Arabic
Creative Writing
In Her First Book, Roaa Nizar Writes ‘To All Who Exist’
On What it Means to be Sudani: An Introspection
Crying for Omar
Photography
‘Modern Sudan’ Photography Competition Launched
‘Sudan Protests’: Regional Winner of the 2022 World Press Photo Contest
Introducing Food Stylist Thuraya Mahmoud
Society
Colourism and Skin Bleaching in South Sudan
Modesty in Sudan | Part III: Facing Patriarchal Power
The Natural Hair Movement in Sudan
Travel
Countries South Sudanese Can Travel to Visa-free
Countries Sudanese Can Travel to Visa-free
Atbara: The Cradle of the Sudan Uprising
Interviews
Tahani Ajak: The Unknown Helping Hand of Sudan’s Refugee Camps
Interview with Reem Gaafar, The First Sudanese to Win The Island Prize for African Novels
Ghost Season: A Debut Novel By Fatin Abbas
Foreigners’ Perspective
From Nimiti Paradise to Sand Dunes Dreamland
Five Things I Miss About Sudan
Sudan: A Home Away from Home
Science and Technology
Culture and Society in South Sudan in the Face of Climate Change
A Surgeon’s Legacy: Remembering Dr Isam Osman
Introducing Pesabase: Revolutionising Sending Money to South Sudan
Technology
Introducing Pesabase: Revolutionising Sending Money to South Sudan
Shakheto: Sudanese Team at 2023 Hult Prize Challenge
Blockchain for Cross-border Remittances in Sudan: A Humanitarian Approach
Health
Remembering Dr Bushra Ibnauf
B’Sarahah: New Initiative Tackling Mental Health in Sudan
Period Poverty in Sudan
Business and Economy
Videos
21 November 2024
Fashion and beauty
Sudanese Perfume and Incense Brands
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500 Words Magazine
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Sep 10, 2024
Sudan has a rich culture with its own traditional beauty products, including perfumes (khumra), boy scrubs (dilka and a’ruka), incense (bakhoor) and more. Sudanese women worldwide depend on these age-old Sudanese beauty regiments and treatments for...
Sudanese Toub Designers and Brands You Should Follow
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500 Words Magazine
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Jul 24, 2024
The Sudanese toub is a traditional Sudanese women’s garment, word by women in Sudan, Mauritania and other African countries. They are worn at all occasions from work to funerals to weddings. It is similar to what...
The Sudanese Take on the Barbiecore Trend
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500 Words Magazine
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Aug 2, 2023
Barbie everywhere! Pink everywhere! The much-anticipated new film Barbie, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, has inspired an overwhelming wave of Barbie-inspired trends from outfits to parties to a new social media challenge where people do their...
L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts Hosts Sudanese Jewelry Designer Nisreen Kuku
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500 Words Magazine
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Aug 9, 2022
In collaboration with Mad Paris, L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts, supported by Van Cleef & Arpels, are hosting Sudanese jewelry designer and and interior design engineer Nisreen Kuku to the Jewellers School for classes, and a...
The Wedding Everyone is Talking About
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500 Words Magazine
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Feb 28, 2022
Everyone has been talking about the wedding of the American-Iraqi beauty mogul and content creator Mona Kattan to Sudanese entrepreneur Hassan Elamin. The most discussed wedding with entertainment and online casino games that everyone is talking...
Introducing Sudaniya Organics
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Ola Diab
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Oct 24, 2021
Unknown to most, Sudan has many natural beauty regiments, which many Sudanese women use and rely on a daily basis to maintain and enhance their beauty. Whether its for their body, face, skin, and hair, Sudanese...
The Natural Hair Movement in Sudan
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Thuraya Salih
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Aug 26, 2020
Sudan, being a diverse Afro-Arab country with multi-ethnicities, is home to a wide variety of skin shades, hair textures, and overall, looks. However, since the early 1950s, former regimes and society have been enforcing a national...
Fashion Revolution Week in Sudan for the First Time
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Hadeel Osman
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Apr 26, 2020
Fashion Revolution Week is an annual global event surrounding 24 April, which commemorates the Rana Plaza factory collapse in 2013, which killed 1,134 people in Dhaka District, Bangladesh. The factory housed a number of garment factories...
Olla Sidi Crowned Miss Nation 2019
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500 Words Magazine
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Jan 13, 2020
Model, actress and entrepreneur Olla Sidi has been crowned Miss Nation 2019 where she competed as Miss Nation Sudan in the annual beauty pageant in Dubai, the UAE on 31 December 2019. She is followed by...
MIZIZI Releases New Soccer Jersey Paying Homage to the Sudan Uprising
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500 Words Magazine
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Jan 12, 2020
MIZIZI, a US-based streetwear brand for the African Diaspora, announces the arrival of its new Sudan Soccer Jersey dedicated to Sudan and its uprising. The jersey has been available for purchase online since 1 January 2020,...
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