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Loaning out some prints relating to prisons in Sudan to a couple of Sudanese orgs for an upcoming exhibition and was all like "sure you can use them just pls be careful" anyway managed to spill tea on the edge of one of them within 2 hours of taking them out of storage 👍🏾

BBC Four - Storyville, Khartoum Against the backdrop of conflict in Sudan, five Khartoum residents search for freedom.

Finally a chance to see much-praised documentary ‘Khartoum’, streaming on BBC4 tonight and then on iPlayer (in UK). #Sudan

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A century later and 'Azza' still used in describing a (burning) nation.

Exhibition funding opportunity for Sudanese visual artists who have been displaced by the war and are currently located in Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan or Uganda. If you know any Sudanese who might be interested, please share - details and link below: www.goethe.de/resources/fi...

Image of exhibition poster with a photograph of the Sudanese photographer Ammar Yassir as a young boy transposed on a photograph of his back. Text of the exhibition title is "I will never find home."

Photograph of the artist's father from the side

Photograph of rubble outside a house in Khartoum

If you're in Kigali, this exhibition of photographs by Ammar Yassir tracing his displacement through multiple cities as a result of the war in Sudan is launching on 23rd March and will run until 2nd April.

Exactly, we don't need to accept framing that students not racing to catch the first plane back to war are somehow scamming the British government, it's entirely valid for them to apply for asylum if they choose.

I totally understand and empathise with why people, especially current applicants, are using this phrasing. At the same time, Sudanese students who previously applied for asylum didn't do so for a jolly. They didn't make up risk of death in their applications.

I've read several (important) articles about Sudanese who were under consideration for UK scholarships and insist they'd return. I haven't seen these mention what happened to those who returned, like former Chevening scholar Alwaleed Abdeen who was imprisoned & starved to death by the RSF last year.

(deleting this but i know we talk about how X has gone all rightwing fash but lots of leftists there have also lost their damn minds. like self-described "anti-imperialists" making the case for child marriage & annihilating minorities in the region omg u can just oppose war like a normal person!!)

(I really want to sign up to the various statements being sent to me re: condemning the suspension of student visas for Sudanese and others but can people please stop using terms like "best and brightest" to describe those affected)

Artwork on a residential wall in Khartoum of a woman holding up a stick usually used for cooking. The text says A woman's place is the resistance in Arabic المرا مكانا المقاومة.

One of my favourite artworks from Sudan's 2018-19 uprising. The Arabic writing translates to "A woman's place is the resistance" (by A. Satir, 2019).

Sudanese who had applied for Chevening scholarships are reporting that they've been informed today their applications have been terminated due to new legislation. Just an unnecessarily cruel policy that will have a huge impact on people's lives.

This is awful and this quote is despicable. bsky.app/profile/fina...

There are Americans with significant platforms (and some who are ostensibly responsible for teaching young minds) confidently stating that coprolalia is just "saying things without a filter" my days.

Everything about that BAFTA clip is horrible especially for MBJ and Delroy and BAFTA handled it terribly. At the same time, the ignorance that highly educated Americans seem to have about disabilities and the fact that they can actually manifest in deeply horrible ways is stunning.

There's a story that when Wardi was arrested in 1971 as part of the anti-communist campaigns, he asked if he could take his oud with him to prison. Allegedly the response was no, since we arrested you because of the oud.

Today marks 14 years since Mohammed Wardi - Sudan's most beloved musician - passed away. I wrote a thread on how he narrated Sudan's history from antiquity to recent revolutions on the other app a few years ago, before the war. Since then, his son reported that his oud was stolen by the RSF...

Rendition of the anticolonial love poem written by Khalil Farah (the name 'Azza' used as a replacement for Sudan to evade detection by the colonial government). Happy Valentine's Day ❤️‍🩹

During the revolution a popular & defiant chant began: "He took us to Shala" - from a poem by Mahgoub Sharif on the transportation of communists across several prisons. A more famous poem by Sharif - 7nabneho - dominated the revolution & envisaged a future where prisons are replaced by hospitals.

Hundreds dead in RSF-run prison in Sudan's North Darfur At least 9,000 civilians said to be in Shala prison, southwest of el-Fasher, where cholera has broken out

Jesus Christ. Reports that more than 300 inmates have died in Shala prison in Darfur in the last two months. www.middleeasteye.net/news/hundred...

Films by the lovely people from the Sudanese Film Group are now on Criterion (link: www.criterionchannel.com/sudanese-fil...)

Sorry only just seen this!

They finally made it, snow, ice, blisters and all 🥹💛. More than 900 miles walked to illustrate the long paths to safety that so many displaced Sudanese have had to go through and to support Sudanese children in Chad. Thanks everyone for sharing/supporting ❤️

Thanks to everyone who shared and donated to this both on here and Twitter (I'm still calling it that) where it somehow went viral despite that app otherwise being cursed. They smashed their original target and have upped their goal as a result, and will finish their long walk tomorrow in Scotland 💛

These two amazing South Sudanese friends - Giel Malual and John Kuei - are walking the length of the UK in freezing weather (set off on 23 Dec) to raise money for displaced Sudanese children in refugee camps in Chad. Link here you're able to support and/or repost: www.gofundme.com/f/the-long-w...

Your students are lucky! (Was discussing Sudan nat. archives yday & an incident where a historian had relied uncritically on security records altho every protestor & inmate involved contested this record (exciting NYE chat I know) - so important you're having them think about limits as well)

ah your class sounds super cool, thank you for sharing the clip!

I'm too lazy to write a thread but she's got a section on Wikipedia for those interested in reading more about her. Some other photos of her: (she's the one on the right in the B&W photo with Oum Kalthoum), & still wearing those independence flag colours half a century later.

The woman in the video is the late Hawa al-Tagtaga 💚💙💛. She was arrested multiple times and imprisoned for her anti-colonial activism and music. Although the footage is in B&W, her famous toab first worn here is in the colours of the old Sudanese flag (blue, yellow & green). bsky.app/profile/chri...