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Sudanese youth revolutionize through art
Khartoon! by Khalid AlbaihYouth in Sudan are looking to art to transform their political frustration into action. They have refused to succumb to hopelessness and apathy and chosen to voice hope and...
View ArticleThe Violation of Women's Rights in Sudan: In the Name of the Law?
For decades, the women of Sudan have been suffering under article 152 of the penal code, an inhumane, vicious and notorious law first implemented in 1991.Article 152 of Sudan’s criminal code stipulates...
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South Sudanese in Khartoum in fear after attack on church
Muslim Sudanese standing in solidarity with Christian South SudaneseSouth Sudanese Christians in Khartoum are living in fear in the wake of a recent church attack by a mob of Muslim extremists. On...
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NCP's Article 146: Stoning women to death since 1991
A couple of days ago I read that a 15-year-old girl has been sentenced to “death by stoning” for allegedly committing adultery and consequently admitting her guilt. The report, forwarded to me from a...
View ArticleSouth Sudanese in Sudan: A Forced Parting of the Ways
They have lived, studied and worked together for decades, but now, ten months into South Sudan’s independence, Sudanese from both sides of what was once Africa’s largest nation have found themselves at...
View ArticleSudan: A healthcare system in shambles
Disclaimer: This article was originally posted in the newly-launched website 500 Words Magazineunder my column 'Made in Sudan'. If you have a passion for Sudan and for writing, don't hesitate to...
View ArticleThe pursuit of answers
Lately I’ve been feeling lost. Where is my life headed? What do I want to do with my life? What does the future have in store for me? I have been relentlessly searching for answers. I think the main...
View ArticlePampering at a psychological cost
As I walked into the beauty salon, I was greeted by a wave of odd smells. A blended scent of henna, hair dye, scrubs, creams and shampoo, sibgha, traditional wax or halawa and a powerful gush of...
View ArticleWhen Nightmare Turns Into Reality
In my dream, I was inside a tunnel. The tunnel was jammed with cars, and I was in one of them. I was alone in the taxi, and the driver was frustrated with the heavy traffic. The tunnel seemed endless,...
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A month has passed since Usamah was arrested
As I write this, I am fighting back tears as it’s been exactly one month since Usamah Mohamed Ali’s arrest. Usamah, or @simsimt on Twitter is a friend of mine. The last time I saw him, he was featured...
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How half a culture gets lost
Disclaimer: This article was originally published on The Niles. Who would have thought that the day would come when a country that once prided itself on being Africa’s largest nation, and one of its...
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In remembrance of Dr. John Garang
I vividly remember the day Dr. John Garang died seven years ago. I was at the university attending a lecture. Upon receiving an urgent phone call, my professor suddenly announced that the lecture was...
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BlogHer 2012: Thank you note
In May I received an email from BlogHer notifying me that I was chosen as one of the four recipients of the 2012 International BlogHer Activist Scholarship. This was before any of the major protests...
View Article#SudanRevolts: We’re sorry; the revolution you requested is currently under...
It’s been hard for me to let go of #SudanRevolts; a real tough pill to swallow. When the protests first sparked in mid-June, I had no doubt in my mind that they would come to fruition. For two months I...
View ArticleA spark in Khartoum
From the 2012 Dream Deferred Essay Contest. Read the article here.January 30, 2011 – a day seared in my memory forever. For days I had been following a Facebook event titled “January 30th protest”...
View ArticleSudan, I love you.. but you're taking a toll on me [4]
As a kid, summer in Sudan was always fun. I was always busy doing something; playing hijla with my sisters, baking mud cookies with my cousins and actually drying them under the sun, or getting yelled...
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Flash floods in Sudan affect many areas; a report by #Nafeer
Date: 6 August, 2013 Nafeer is a volunteer group of young people working together to aid families that have been affected by the heavy rains that took place on August 1 and 2, causing flash floods in...
View ArticleLetter to the mothers of the detainees
Last year, I was taken from my home at midnight. Without notice, a small army of NISS officers barged into our house, a dozen of them carrying weapons. They welcomed themselves into our living room,...
View ArticleHunger strike for Sudan #Strike4Sudan
Last month a powerful wave of protests swept across Sudan after the National Congress Party announced a lift on subsidies; making it almost impossible for law-abiding citizens to eke out a living under...
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It's worth more than you think
It has been a while since my last blog post. I keep using life as an excuse for my bloggo-hiatus but I have decided to snap out of it. Let me bore you with a little story...I grew up in Abu Dhabi and...
View ArticleSimplicity, mirages, evil and other things
When people say "it was a simpler time then", I often wonder if time ever marked an era when things were actually simple. I find myself contemplating the real meaning of "simplicity", and if it merely...
View ArticleMy rock, my Rimbo
Sometime in 2009 I went to one of the first open mic shows in Khartoum. There I met two young and beautiful women, whom I now proudly call my best friends. This story is about one of them, her name is...
View ArticleProwess
She hugged her pain, held on to it tightMind you it was her right, for her options were scarceHer heart told her enough, but her mind loved to ambleAnd so she carried on in a cycle, with the pieces all...
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Sudan, I love you... but you're taking a toll on me [5]
I often ask myself; what is the ideal number of years to live in Sudan and love it and hate it quite equally; perhaps loving it just a little bit more? Five years? Seven? Would anything more than that...
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Why I will never give up on the Sudanese revolution
“Sudan doesn’t want us,” my best friend said to me with tears streaming down her cheeks. “It has taken so much away from us, yet we somehow always come back to it.” On that Friday morning, it had only...
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