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Reem Gaafar’s “A Mouth Full of Salt” Coming Out on 9 April
Art in a Time of War: The New Chapter for Sudanese Artists
The Derik Cultural Festival 2023 Embraces Diversity
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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
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Atbara: The Cradle of the Sudan Uprising
Top 10 Travel Destinations for Sudanese
Sudan: A Home Away from Home
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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
Introducing Pesabase: Revolutionising Sending Money to South Sudan
Remembering Dr Bushra Ibnauf
Climate Education in Sudan: An Unattainable Dream
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
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Videos
8 May 2024
Film and Documentary
All You Need to Know About Mohamed Elsandel
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500 Words Magazine
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Aug 13, 2023
British-Sudanese actor Mohamed Elsandel is an exciting emerging talent who stars as a regular in the new Apple series Hijack. Hijack is a seven-part thriller miniseries created by George Kay and Jim Field Smith, starring Idris Elba....
Movie Review: “Al-Sit” Challenges Tradition
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Tuga A Hafeez
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Jun 18, 2023
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...
Sudanese Documentary ‘Heroic Bodies’ Receives Audience Award at Malmo Arab Film Festival 2023
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May 7, 2023
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’ Makes History as First Sudanese Film at Cannes
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500 Words Magazine
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Apr 16, 2023
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...
New Sudanese Film ‘Heroic Bodies’ Debuts at IDFA 2022
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500 Words Magazine
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Jan 3, 2023
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...
Aflam Banat: A Filmmaking Workshop for Sudanese Girls and Women
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500 Words Magazine
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Jul 31, 2022
Aflam Banat is a four-week scriptwriting workshop (narrative fiction), dedicated to highlighting the stories of Sudanese girls and women. The workshop is organised by Sudanese filmmakers Lubna Bagsair and Suzannah Mirghani, who will offer hands-on guided...
Behind Award-Winning Film “AL-SIT” and Filmmaker Suzannah Mirghani
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Ola Diab
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Apr 15, 2021
After the success of Amjad Abu Alala’s You Will Die at Twenty, we’ve witnessed a wave of Sudanese films and documentaries, making it to international screens and grabbing awards at international film festivals. Most recently, AL-SIT...
An Interview with Filmmaker Hashim Hassan on the Making of Short Film, “A Handful of Dates”
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Leena Badri
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Jan 21, 2021
With the recent international success of You Will Die at Twenty and Talking About Trees, Sudanese films are receiving international recognition. Now comes A Handful of Dates, a short drama film adapted from the iconic 1957...
“You Will Die At Twenty” Becomes First-Ever Sudanese Film Submitted to the Oscars
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500 Words Magazine
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Nov 18, 2020
The much-acclaimed Sudanese film, You Will Die at Twenty, by Sudanese director and screenwriter Amjad Abu Alala, has entered the 93rd Academy Awards (the Oscars) race for the first time as the country’s first Best International Feature Film...
Film Review: Revolution from Afar
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Afnan Hassab
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Jul 16, 2020
In December 2018, out of frustration with unbearable living conditions in Sudan, people took to the streets to revolt in limb defiance of the then Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir’s authoritarian rule demanding change, freedom, peace,...
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