The night Dr Amal Ziada died was a horrible one. We had been standing around the ICU all morning, afternoon and evening, crying and feeling helpless as she rapidly deteriorated, systems failing, and finally lost her battle with cancer. It was a little after Maghrib I think. I went down to the hospital cafeteria to […]
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Kida bas. Rizg, or رزق is a word that literally translates into livelihood, or subsistence. All rizig comes from Allah, but when and how and in what form is the question. You can never guess or be 100% sure, even if you’re 100% sure. It serves as an explanation or justification of plans gone wrong
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Published originally in ElleAfrique Magazine Sudan is a melting pot of different nations, cultures and religions. There is no one ‘type’ of Sudanese, and no one can claim that the land belongs to them. Over the generations, there have been Nilotic Africans, Arabs, Turks, Moroccans, Egyptians, Greek, Coptic and others, so that Sudanese today are
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A short while ago I was given the task of organizing a couple of workshops for some important national and international participants. The topic was an interesting and important one, and these were the second and third workshops in a series of events sponsored by a couple of large international bodies. At some point during
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2013 will be a year remembered for a quite a few reasons, but mostly for illness, tears and death. I don’t think there’s ever been a year so full of tragedy and exhaustion, at least not in my relatively pathetic and boring life. I’m sure many other people can say different. The one thing I
This isn’t really a complete part since the story isn’t over yet. I actually stopped asking and don’t expect anything to happen anytime soon. A few weeks after giving all my papers I was called by the administrative director (the guy who had my file and was getting things done for me) and told that
Salah Mudathir Sanhouri, a young pharmacist with a well-known family name, has become more or less the revolution’s poster boy, or as is more fit to say: Sudan’s Buazizi. His death was not the first of some 200+ deaths, but it was by the far the most penetrating. The Sanhouri clan is famous for its
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So once again, Sudan is revolting. Everyone’s saying how this is it, this is THE revolution that will finally unglue the NCP and cast them down history’s hall of shame. The demonstrations are rather smaller than last time, mostly because university students are nowhere to be seen (I mean the demonstrations are not initiated in
So after I collected every single possible and impossible document in existence and delivered them to the training directorate, I was then informed that nothing was happening. I got irritated, and so called the big boss who had offered to help before and who had told me to talk to Folan. So I called him