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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The programme ends today with this beautiful film about four Sudanese filmmakers and their attempts to revive cinema in Sudan during the Bashir era. www.curzon.com/films/sudane...

A film poster featuring four elderly Sudanese men and the title "Talking About Trees" at the top followed by film and screening details.

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

برنامج اليوم today's programme

Poster promoting Sudanese film programme from 1964 onwards with the text "What is the relationship between socialism and cinema in Sudan?"

Poster promoting three Sudanese films from 1964 with the title "Turning Worlds"

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Open call for Sudanese fine artists from around the world to participate in an art project. Each selected artist will receive €800 to produce an artwork. Details and link to apply here: www.instagram.com/gz_kampala/p...

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Images of labour organisers associated with the 9to5 movement which inspired the film and Dolly Parton song. 📷 by Cagan and Bermack

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

anyway thank god the little shits didn't win my gosh

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

and some people said he shouldn't play!!!!

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

they're scoring goals already and im still on the way home omg!!!!!

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I grew up partly in early 1990s pre-oil boom pre-air con Sudan where we had an average of maybe 4-6 hours electricity a day and I still don't know if I can survive another night of this hellfire in London omg what is this??

Cartoon of dog surrounding by flames and smiling with a mug of coffee or tea in front of them

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

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

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

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...

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

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.

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

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

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.

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

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

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

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...

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

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

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

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 ❤️

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

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 💛

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

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...

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

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.

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

London yesterday (📸 by Martin Gavin) #Sudan

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Tomorrow marks the 7th anniversary of Sudan's December revolution, before it was superseded by another war that separated and scattered millions of people across countless countries and worlds. Will slowly be posting readings on the uprising here, focusing first on those by Sudanese 🧵

Image of a train in a sea of revolutionaries waving Sudanese flags. Protestors fill the image, including many standing on top of the train.

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

This article captures a phenomenon that's not uncommon but hasn't really been covered in a lot of analysis on the war: young former revolutionaries who marched against the army 6 years ago joining the army or aligned group since the war. "From revolutionary to soldier": 3ayin.com/en/albarabin...

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Never told him this when he was alive but realising how much everything I've written is simultaneously about my father, and also very deliberately not about my father. Even though I avoided writing about experiences of imprisoned minors, he/their ghosts still emerge in the stories of others.

Screenshot excerpt from the article linked in previous post.

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

These and other Sudanese media have been reporting closely on the fall of El Fasher. Please stop saying "nobody" is reporting on Sudan - our journalists and others risking their lives on the ground are not "nobody". bsky.app/profile/note...

Screenshot of a displaced Sudanese woman sitting down and narrating her displacement

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

From El Fasher resistance committees. I don't have space to translate it all but: "Today the city has fallen but it's dignity remains. The bodies are gone but it's spirit remains, soaring over the walls and streets, guarding what remains... every stone bears witness that [we] did not surrender...

Arabic text of announcement by El Fasher resistance committees

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

El Fasher resistance committees reporting that large numbers of volunteers in community kitchens were martyred as they tried to help civilians amidst fighting. This comes on the back of mass captures and executions by the RSF reported in the last 24 hours since the RSF captured the city.

Arabic text of the announcement by resistance committees of El Fasher.

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Two initiatives digitising Sudanese music, each with a collection of hundreds of digitised old Sudanese songs. 1. Waves of Sudan (YouTube: m.youtube.com/@wavesofsudan) 2. Sudan Tapes Archive (SoundCloud: m.soundcloud.com/sudantapesar...)

Black and white photo of a young Mohammed Wardi playing a oud, with the words "Ameer al-Hosn" next to him indicating the title of the song.

Album cover with a photograph of the musician Gisma on the cover.

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Elnour - online collection of hundreds of digitised vintage Sudan photographs by various Sudanese photographers. www.elnour.org/photographers/

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

V short notice, but this film on Sudanese & South Sudanese refugees & asylum seekers in Morocco & Libya is screening later today in E. London. Funds raised go towards Captain Support Network UK, whose work supports those in prison due to govt's hostile policies. www.genesiscinema.co.uk/event/101321

Photograph shows a young Sudanese man praying, and a group of young displaced Sudanese men in the background.

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Maps from an old Sudanese union booklet (publication Khartoum 1950s) on colonialism in Africa (reposting from my 🐦). Left: European settlements in Africa before the Berlin conference, 1884. Right: Countries represented at Bandung, 1955.

Map showing European settlements in Africa before the Berlin conference, 1884. Sketched by hand.

Map illustrating countries represented at the Bandung conference, 1955. Sketched by hand.

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Returned to work this week after being on strike for weeks and........

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

(We don't talk about the other film called Khartoum/aka the-probably-inebriated-throughout-filming-Laurence-Olivier-in-blackface-one)

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Vision of the tomb - El-Salahi, 1965.

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

As with every May Day, to the waged and unwaged of Sudan, who did and continue to do the work of caring, evacuating, healing, transporting, cooking and feeding as the bombs fell, throughout it all 🌹

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

36 years ago today the trade unionist and communist Ali Fadul was tortured to death in a ghost house for organising a strike by the Sudanese doctors' union against the military government. Military doctors wrote malaria as cause of death despite visible trauma to his skull.

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Universities transformed into torture chambers in Khartoum. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

A screenshot from a news article featuring the phrase "university building-turned-prison."

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

A video recorded by Sudan Tribune yesterday that shows the sheer scale of looting of Sudan National Museum. There are artifacts that have survived every plague, invasion, and occupation for millennia and predate the birth of Christ that have not survived this war.

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

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).

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.

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Finally got round to watching Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat and, as much as I enjoyed it, this review and this part in particular is spot on (via @africasacountry.bsky.social africasacountry.com/2025/01/requ...) - would argue both violent opposition and internal contradictions were key.

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Strange seeing people laud certain western European leaders for being outraged at Trump's horrible conduct towards Zelensky without acknowledging that he basically spoke to him the way they speak to Africans. This was only last month.

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

2012 حسن موسى Arabic calligraphy of the communist manifesto by Sudanese artist Hassan Musa

Image shows Arabic calligraphy of the communist manifesto with a sketch of Karl Marx in the centre.

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I think a lot about the fact that revolutionary graffiti remains on bullet-ridden walls across Sudan, and about the people who risked arrest and worse to scrawl these words.

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

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 ❤️‍🩹

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

If you're in London today and want to join us x (yes I always forget to share until last minute/yes I'm running late)

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