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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 · 20/07/2026

'What's Left of the Left?' - this is a special issue on the left in Sudan, although not strictly/solely about 1971, it includes translations of articles by leading communists executed in 1971 www.dukeupress.edu/what-s-left-...

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What′s Left of the Left?: The View from Sudan

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

(Self plug sorry) 'Prison Memories: Sudanese Communists and the Aftermath of July 1971 in Kober'. My sources included memoirs & interviews with communists incarcerated in 1971. Focus is on social relations and mobilisation inside Kober prison. www.jadaliyya.com/Details/43128

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Prison Memories: Sudanese Communists and the Aftermath of July 1971 in Kober

In his memoirs on his time in Kober prison, the late Sudanese historian and Marxist Mohammed Saeed Gaddal recalls being alerted by urgent shouts from fellow inmates that a statement from Major Hashim ...

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

'The Free Officers and the Comrades: The Sudanese Communist Party and Nimeiri Face-to-Face, 1969-1971' by A Gresh. Sources include internal party documents & the text focuses on relations between the SCP & Nimeiry, SCP & USSR tensions, & internal party disputes. www.jstor.org/stable/163451

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The Free Officers and the Comrades: The Sudanese Communist Party and Nimeiri Face-to-Face, 1969-1971 | JSTOR

Alain Gresh, The Free Officers and the Comrades: The Sudanese Communist Party and Nimeiri Face-to-Face, 1969-1971, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 21, No. 3, Aug., 1989

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This week marks the 55th anniversary of Sudan's anti-communist campaigns and massacre, which took place in July 1971. Some readings on the topic and events leading up to this and immediate aftermath🧵

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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 · 19/07/2026

what the hell is this superbowlification? this isn't proper football man.

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

As far as I'm concerned this is the World Cup final!!

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

deleting all tweets/reposts on the other app judging people for supporting england over drc so that i can support england over argentina in peaceful hypocrisy 👍🏾

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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

this game is wasted on the US man, they had us out here fighting for our lives watching games at 1am and racing home at 5pm and the americans are barely watching smh

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

defeating the children of leopold!!!!!!! ⚽🇸🇳🇸🇳🇸🇳🎉🎊 futbol is a country!

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

Senegal was the first to gain independence, as I was saying!!! 🇸🇳 bsky.app/profile/note...

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

spent 70 mins messaging everyone that drc was first african country to gain independence & i stand by it!! bsky.app/profile/note...

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

ghanaian self-declared witch doctor asleep at the wheel, zero sense of pan-africanism. fair play to kane.

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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 · 23/06/2026

Telling Ghanian friends that if they win today I'm gonna let them claim they were the first to gain independence bla bla without arguing w them (for 12 whole months), let's goooo 🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I remember reading and watching this story about a Sudanese cafe and Syrian restaurant being burnt to ashes by racists in 2024. 2-3 pogroms later (genuinely losing count now) and journalists and politicians from across party lines continue to contribute to this climate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Belfast: 'My life is threatened - there is no hope here'

Business owners express shock and heartbreak after disorder broke out in Belfast on Saturday.

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Radical Online Archives @radonlinearchives.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

For Pride Month, Radical Online Archives has many collections of LGBTQ+ historical documents from across the world listed. Here is a selection of those listed. hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...

Issue 5 (Winter 1977) of Gay Left, a socialist journal produced by gay people (UK), with a group of people in front of Karl Marx's grave

Front cover of issue 7 (Winter 1973) of The Body Politic, a Canadian gay rights journal. Orange cover with 'Gay Liberation Journal' in the middle.

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

(every line i read from that prize winning story granta published is like if someone tried to parody postcolonial literature, which says a lot about what certain people class as good writing emerging from the global south)

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

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 👍🏾

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Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Finally a chance to see much-praised documentary ‘Khartoum’, streaming on BBC4 tonight and then on iPlayer (in UK). #Sudan www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Four - Storyville, Khartoum

Against the backdrop of conflict in Sudan, five Khartoum residents search for freedom.

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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 · 15/03/2026

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.

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

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.

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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 · 10/03/2026

(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!!)

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

(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)

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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 · 05/03/2026

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.

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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 · 23/02/2026

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.

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

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.

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

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.

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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 · 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 · 09/02/2026

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.

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