A month ago, Sudan, my country, split into two following a referendum in which an overwhelming majority of 1/3 of its citizens voted in favor of secession. South Sudan was born on the 9th of July and I wrote this …
Posted in Sudan | Tagged Freedom, Human Rights, seperation, Sudan | Leave a commentEducation often creates peace and reconciliation. In Sudan, the schools reinforced the deep and bloody conflict between north and south.In Sudan, education is an engine for the division between south and north, because the ideological differences are so large, An …
Posted in Culture and Society, Education, News and Politics, Ridiculous, Sudan | 3 CommentsA.M.H was circumcised at the tender age of 9. She remembers the nitty-gritty details of this ordeal even though it has occurred over 40 years ago.
Posted in Activism, Assholes, Awareness, Culture, Honour Crimes, Regional Issues, Sexism, Sudan, Taboos, Women | 2 CommentsSometimes when I describe my house to my friends, I tell them to get off the Omdurman bridge and go straight after they see “Awadia Fishes” to their right. Awadia has become a landmark in Omdurman, hundreds of people commute from Khartoum and Bahri to eat Awadia’s fish. When you go there, you probably wouldn’t see her sitting at the reception desk, if you look outside the new, fairly-modern restaurant, you will see a woman of significant size dressed in black sitting on a tiny metal chair under the boiling sun.
Posted in Culture, Gender, Interviews, Society, Sudan, Women | 1 CommentPresident Omar Hassan al-Bashir has declared the winner of the first multi-party elections in Sudan in 24 years as he. received 68 percent of the vote in elections in Sudan. It celebrates his follower Leader at The National Convention Party …
Posted in Current Events, Sudan | 4 Commentsat least 55 people were killed in clashes between soldiers and Arab nomads from Darfur in western Sudan, said Sudanese officials. The clashes coincided with the first results by the Sudanese first free elections in 24 years has begun to …
Posted in Sudan | 1 CommentThis is the first podcast in a long series on homosexuality in Sudan. Mideast Youth talks to Ali, a single gay Sudanese man living and working in the Gulf. When Ali started his blog, black-gay-Arab, he was only trying to find …
Posted in Activism, Homosexuality, Podcasts, Sudan, Taboos | 5 CommentsOne night, three friends in Khartoum , Sudan acted on their dissapointment. They wanted to encourage people to register to vote and then, vote in the general elections, so they started “Girifna”
Posted in Activism, Awareness, Censorship, Creativity, Education, General, Human Rights, Media, Nationalism, News and Politics, Politics, Society, Sudan, Youth | 3 CommentsLast May, a professor of mine told me about an upcoming project, a book on refugees in Cairo. I was an undergraduate student and May is the worst month of the year for me. I didn’t ask a lot of …
Posted in Activism, Awareness, Egypt, Human Rights, Literature, Racism, Refugees, Sudan, War, Youth | 5 CommentsThe national Alliance which is lead by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and the Umma Party had lead a group of 17 Sudanese political parties, under the banner of The national alliance demanding the Sudanese government to step down and …
Posted in Democracy, General, Sudan | 2 Comments