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Introduction- Reem from the Sudan

April 5th, 2007Reem (Sudan)

Hello Mideast Youth:)
My name is Reem, I’m an 18 year old Sudanese ( half nubian/half omdurmanya) currently living in Cairo. I love Cairo and the people here are very friendly but I would love to go back to Khartoum, talk to the very witty 7abobat (grandmothers), walk around the 7ila (neighbourhood), go to the dokan 2 buy pepsi ( its really hot there, you are constantly craving soda n other cold drinks) and go to sub7yat (bridal-dancing) and admire the bride and the special treatment she gets.
I’m a full-time student at the American university in Cairo majoring in Mass communication and minoring in Sociology/theatre and possibly gender studies! I love reading, listening to music, dancing, eating (yes I’m a bit horizontally challenged!), reading books, watching movies, acting ( I have a play coming up!), teaching ( I taught kids last December and I’m teaching refugees now, its part of a program called STAR), writing, reading cosmo and vogue, talking to random strangers, travelling, shopping especially bags (confession: I have over 30 bags, I’m not gonna say the exact number!), I love traditional accessories especially from african countries, the far east, the stan countries and eastern Europe.
I’m also interested in gender studies and women issues. I’m part of a project called The Bussy project, we raise awareness about different women’s issues (especially taboo issues such as rape/sexual harrasment/circumcision etc..). I’m really proud of our work and although, we did face alot of problems and I was criticized many times for being “honest” “blunt” and ” for talking about things that don’t exist except in western societies”.
Reem is very incoherent, she digresses alot, she talks alot, she is always smiling, she is very colorful, she plays the piano, she wants to make documentaries, she is very social, she is a big fat procrastinator, she is incapable of “time-management”, she drinks alot of water, she cant resits galaxy and after eight, she uses lipgloss obsessively, she likes redheads/indian and west african men, she hates hot weather and she loves bollywood.

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13 Responses to “Introduction- Reem from the Sudan”

  1. #1 Liora - April 5th, 2007 at 6:15 pm

    Welcome Reem! I love bags, Cairo, lipgloss and Bollywood, too! In fact, when I traveled to India in October, I went to the movies as much as I could while I was there! There is nothing like sitting in a big packed movie theater in India watching the latest Bollywood sensation! I look forward to your writings.

  2. #2 Jina (Web Surgeon) - April 5th, 2007 at 11:53 pm

    Hey there, and ouch, I hate that Bollywood crap. I have this philosophy of a sort regarding those movies, I rather watch grass grow than watch one of those movies.

  3. #3 Esra'a - April 6th, 2007 at 4:07 am

    Reem,

    You are interesting! And we have the same major :D

    Welcome aboard my friend.

  4. #4 Reem (Sudan) - April 6th, 2007 at 6:30 am

    Dear Liora, you are my new Mideast youth best friend! Oh, I can easily give away a kidney to go to India! I would love to go there! You should visit me in cairo k?

    Dear Jina, lol well its fine , aslong as you like food we can still be friend :P lol

    Dear Esra’a, oh goodies! gr8 gr8 gr8! I fell in love with mey ‘7alas

  5. #5 Melissa - April 6th, 2007 at 7:56 am

    Welcome:)

  6. #6 Reem (Sudan) - April 6th, 2007 at 8:08 am

    Thank you Melissa

  7. #7 tsedek - April 6th, 2007 at 12:18 pm

    I like this: a Sudanese woman, living in Egypt and dying to go to India :D
    Is almost like me:
    A Dutch woman, who is more than 3/4ers of her life Israeli in Israel – but……

    holds on to this childhood dream to go to Jamaica one day :D

  8. #8 Jina (Web Surgeon) - April 6th, 2007 at 12:24 pm

    Dear Jina, lol well its fine , aslong as you like food we can still be friend :P lol

    I like food, what kind?

  9. #9 Reem (Sudan) - April 6th, 2007 at 2:36 pm

    loool @ tsedek! u r funny lol
    well, I would love to go to Jamaica too:p where r u from?

  10. #10 Reem (Sudan) - April 6th, 2007 at 2:38 pm

    Dear Jina,
    I like everything except meat!
    However, I love deserts especially chocolaty stuff yummmy

  11. #11 Amin - April 7th, 2007 at 11:59 am

    Welcome on board Reem…
    It is amazing how can Cairo be such a crossroad for the whole world…
    I am tunisian, studying here in the GUC…
    I will need your help in translating some documents from Arabic Sudanese to English, it is for an association preparing something about preventing AIDS in Sudan…
    Is it possible ?
    Thks in advance!

  12. #12 Liora - April 7th, 2007 at 2:35 pm

    Reem — I look forward to the opportunity to come visit you in Cairo, where we can trade bags, talk lipgloss and recreate Bollywood dance numbers!

  13. #13 Reem (Sudan) - April 9th, 2007 at 2:16 pm

    Dear Amin,
    sure! I can help u
    this is my email questprincess05@yahoo.fr email me and we can meet up n I can help u out:D:)
    tunis el ‘7a’9ra:D =green tunis!

    Dear Liora,
    u are most welcome!
    Cairo is amazing during summers althought its a bit hot but people dont sleep during summer! trust me new york is NOT the city that never sleeps, Cairo is!

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