Arts and Culture

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...

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...

Sudan, now split into the Republic of Sudan and the Republic of South Sudan, boasts a rich cultural heritage that has in recent years become the increasing focus of an international community of archaeologists, anthropologists and...

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...

Sudan Architecture Forum, in partnership with Docomomo Sudan and Sudan Artists Fund, opens submissions for ‘ Modern Sudan’, an annual competition dedicated to portraying modern Sudanese architecture. Participants are invited to submit a photograph, or as...

‘Sudan Protests’ a picture by Sudanese photographer Faiz Abubakr Mohamed has been named a regional winner of the 2022 World Press Photo Contest. A protester throws back a tear-gas canister that had been fired by security forces,...