Sooner than I thought, I have had my first brush with the Sudanese healthcare system as a patient. Or actually, as an attendant of a patient. Naturally, I did not like what I encountered. One of my sisters came down with a fever and sore throat which later evolved into neck pain. The neck pain […]
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For as long as I can remember, my grandparents’ house in Alsafia had been a hub for beggars of all styles and backgrounds, whom my grandmother Zainab Rustom (Allah yer7ama) entertained with all possible means; money, meals, clothes, etc. No one was every turned away (except when my grandfather came home). I remember one stormy
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Death is a strange thing. It happens to everyone, and yet not to everyone. It takes so many guises and travels through so many media, and yet, the end result is the same. It is so final. And yet, it is just the beginning. We hear about it all the time, every day, from friends,
This is a story that happened quite a while ago, around 2-3 years kida. I was on my way to Dubai and flying British Airways because they used to have the cheapest tickets. Their planes suck and they don’t serve you anything on the short haul flights, like Muscat-Dubai. Anyway, we were on the bus
This is dedicated to the guy who called me ‘3awaleeg’. For those of you who don’t know the story, my last blog was about my observations while chillaxing in the ‘main’ in Khartoum University college of medicine. These observations were comments about college students in general, but happened to be ‘observed’ in the U of
Today I went to the faculty of medicine at Khartoum University to meet a couple of people. I ended up waiting for about 45 minutes, during which I sat under a tree observing my surroundings, remembering my own college days (not so very long ago *cough*) and comparing. The overall look of things was shabby,
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This applies to those returning from 3 years or more of working abroad and who wish to bring a car that is not a model of the same year. To do the above you will need the following: 1. A copy of your passport that shows proof of you having worked for at least 3
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Last night I went out to dinner with Bridgette and the girls as a sort of farewell thing. I don’t usually go into the whole girls-night-out-group-photo thing because its kind of lame kida, especially stopping someone and asking them to take our photo. Anyway, our waiter was some short Egyptian dude with curly hair whom
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Dear MamaI shouldn’t be waiting for Mother’s Day to say all this, but, being the thankless childrenthat we are, I did. I cannot begin to imagine the nightmare of motherhood thatyou had lived with 6 children, one of which was myself. An ugly child, a loud-mouthedand rebellious teenager, and moody, nagging, volatile and hot tempered
Apparently, a divorce is the thing to get these days. Everyone’s getting it, so why not us? And, it’s so easy to get that there’s no minimum requirement: you could be married 6 months, 6 years, 6 minutes, doesn’t matter. In the past 2 years I have heard of around 10 weddings of close friends