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Reminiscing About Sudan in Movies: Lost Past, Misunderstood Present and Perplexing Future
Elmiene Releases “For The Deported” EP Honouring Sudan
The DJs of Sudan
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
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Videos
22 December 2024
Arts and Culture
AA Visiting School Khartoum: Applications Now Open
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500 Words Magazine
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May 2, 2021
Applications for the AA Visiting School Khartoum are now open. Full and partial scholarships are available. The AA is the abbreviation for the Architectural Association, a school based in London. Their Visiting Schools have taken place...
Women in Arka Saber’s Songs
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Dr Hassan Adrob
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Apr 29, 2021
Looking at Arka Saber’s poetic copious productivity, it would be difficult to confine all the topics that will be analysed in one or two articles. Due to the extensive and essential issues that touch humanitarian areas...
Peace in Arka Saber’s Songs
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Hassan Ali Adrob
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Apr 22, 2021
Looking at Arka Saber’s poetic copious productivity, it would be difficult to confine all the topics that will be analysed in one or two articles. Due to the extensive and essential issues that touch humanitarian areas...
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...
The Role of Arka Saber’s Songs in the Sudanese Revolution
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Dr Hassan Adrob
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Apr 8, 2021
Mahmoud Muhammad Saber or Arka Saber, who was also known as the Beja Revolution Poet (BRP), was born in 1960 in a village in Hamashkorib District in Kassala State. As one of the citizens of eastern...
Salute Yal Bannot’s Debut Album “Bittersweet” is A Rendition of Sudanese Womanhood
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Hadeel Osman
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Mar 8, 2021
Salute Yal Bannot is an all-female Sudanese band, formed in February 2015 during the Yalla Khartoum workshop, which took place in the heart of Goethe-Institut Sudan. The band is a mix of seven vocalists and musicians...
The Hub Sudan: Purposefully Here to Serve the Community
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Tony Malik
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Feb 26, 2021
Ever since things in Sudan changed after the glorious December revolution, the desire to make Sudan better rises coninuously. The initiative featured on this article is on that same motivated path. The Hub Sudan is an...
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...
Khartoum Comic Con Bringing Together Sudan’s Comic Fans
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Tony Malik
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Dec 24, 2020
One of the highlights of 2020 in Sudan is the increasing number of international events which the country and its people are taking part in. Whether politically, ecologically, culturally or socially, Sudan is taking a remarkable...
Ahmad Hikmat: A Vigorous Voice in Sudan’s Media and Music Industries
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Ola Diab
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Nov 23, 2020
When it comes to Sudan’s developing media industry, as well as its thriving music scene, a name that usually pops up is Ahmad Hikmat, popularly known as DJ Afrodiziac. The 33-year-old DJ wears many hats in...
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