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Sudanese labourers excavating wall art (the first depicts the birth of Jesus) from what was Faras cathedral in medieval Nubia, parts of which ended up in the (recently looted) Sudan National Museum.
December 25, 2024 at 7:36 PM
Sudanese labourers excavating wall art (the first depicts the birth of Jesus) from what was Faras cathedral in medieval Nubia, parts of which ended up in the (recently looted) Sudan National Museum.
Tomorrow marks the 7th anniversary of Sudan's December revolution, before it was superseded by another war that separated and scattered millions of people across countless countries and worlds.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 🧵
December 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Tomorrow marks the 7th anniversary of Sudan's December revolution, before it was superseded by another war that separated and scattered millions of people across countless countries and worlds.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 🧵
Scanning today 📜
December 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Scanning today 📜
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":
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"From revolutionary to soldier":
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December 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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...
"From revolutionary to soldier":
3ayin.com/en/albarabin...
MPs were briefed that 60,000 people killed in 3 weeks is the "low" estimate...
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RSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show
Up to 150,000 residents of El Fasher are missing since North Darfur capital fell to paramilitary Rapid Support Forces
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December 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
MPs were briefed that 60,000 people killed in 3 weeks is the "low" estimate...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Rare for me to defend Arab TV but one of the things about being in Cairo is that most Arabic language news channels - eg Aljazeera mubashar, Al Hadath - actually report daily and in-depth on Sudan. And regularly have analysts actually based in Sudan on their news shows.
November 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Rare for me to defend Arab TV but one of the things about being in Cairo is that most Arabic language news channels - eg Aljazeera mubashar, Al Hadath - actually report daily and in-depth on Sudan. And regularly have analysts actually based in Sudan on their news shows.
dick cheney was still alive?????
November 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
dick cheney was still alive?????
If you're in London, this documentary is screening tomorrow at Curzon (Bloomsbury): www.curzon.com/films/dochou...
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If you're in Berlin next week, there's a screening of this documentary by displaced Sudanese filmmakers which premiered at the Sundance Festival earlier this year & follows five residents during the war (I haven't seen it yet but want to www.goethe.de/prj/gex/en/v...).
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KHARTOUM (2025) | Official Trailer
YouTube video by NativeVoiceFilms
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November 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
If you're in London, this documentary is screening tomorrow at Curzon (Bloomsbury): www.curzon.com/films/dochou...
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There have been years of people ignoring what’s happening in Sudan. The only reason that it’s a news story today is because it’s so bad that you can see the literal bloodshed from the NASA satellites! How dare you center yourself in such a way while people are being raped and killed?!
November 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
There have been years of people ignoring what’s happening in Sudan. The only reason that it’s a news story today is because it’s so bad that you can see the literal bloodshed from the NASA satellites! How dare you center yourself in such a way while people are being raped and killed?!
I reactivated twitter for four days before deactivating again. It wasn't even the direct racism & nazi shit but that as blood and corpses flooded El Fasher, Americans/Brits were doing up "no one is getting called up by HR for posting about Sudan though" - that algorithm rewards sociopaths.
November 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I reactivated twitter for four days before deactivating again. It wasn't even the direct racism & nazi shit but that as blood and corpses flooded El Fasher, Americans/Brits were doing up "no one is getting called up by HR for posting about Sudan though" - that algorithm rewards sociopaths.
Resistance committees reporting hundreds of unaccompanied young children arriving from El Fasher who lost their families in the last few days.
I can't watch survivor testimonies for more than 2 mins but there are so many echoes of the worst and most unforgivable legacies of the previous regime.
I can't watch survivor testimonies for more than 2 mins but there are so many echoes of the worst and most unforgivable legacies of the previous regime.
November 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Resistance committees reporting hundreds of unaccompanied young children arriving from El Fasher who lost their families in the last few days.
I can't watch survivor testimonies for more than 2 mins but there are so many echoes of the worst and most unforgivable legacies of the previous regime.
I can't watch survivor testimonies for more than 2 mins but there are so many echoes of the worst and most unforgivable legacies of the previous regime.
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".
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October 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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".
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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...
"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...
October 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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...
"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...
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.
October 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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.
I wish people had listened to our journalists in El Fasher before they were captured and disappeared, and I wish people had listened to our revolutionaries before they were executed.
October 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I wish people had listened to our journalists in El Fasher before they were captured and disappeared, and I wish people had listened to our revolutionaries before they were executed.
$53 (USD) for a single kilogram of rice in El Fasher.....
October 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
$53 (USD) for a single kilogram of rice in El Fasher.....
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For those interested, I have been working for quite some time on a bibliography for modern Sudanese history. The PDF is freely available (www.academia.edu/121191857/CBSH_v1_07_24_) and I have also created a Zotero group open to everyone. This is still a work in progress.
CBSH (v1-07.24)
Comprehensive Bibliography of Sudanese History (v1-07.24)
www.academia.edu
October 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
For those interested, I have been working for quite some time on a bibliography for modern Sudanese history. The PDF is freely available (www.academia.edu/121191857/CBSH_v1_07_24_) and I have also created a Zotero group open to everyone. This is still a work in progress.
🧵 Thread of resources on various aspects of Sudanese history/archival attempts (loosely defined). Will be slowly adding to this throughout the week, focusing on the labour of individuals/smaller scale attempts rather than larger grant-funded institutional ones. Feel free to add.
October 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
🧵 Thread of resources on various aspects of Sudanese history/archival attempts (loosely defined). Will be slowly adding to this throughout the week, focusing on the labour of individuals/smaller scale attempts rather than larger grant-funded institutional ones. Feel free to add.
Trade Union Act 2016
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"The chancellor approved it"
October 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Trade Union Act 2016
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I do not like the way people are increasingly acting like I'm the weird one for not using ChatGPT.....
October 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I do not like the way people are increasingly acting like I'm the weird one for not using ChatGPT.....
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Perfect timing ahead of a trip with students later this term to The Story, home of County Durham archives, where Mustapha's photographic images and life story feature as part of the Durham Light Infantry collection. 🗃️📜📷📸
A new ODNB article from me - James Francis [Jimmy] Durham, formerly Mustapha, a Sudanese boy 'adopted' in 1886 into the Durham Light Infantry. A tale of class and race, geography and the armed forces, music, and goodwill amidst the imperial assumptions: www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1...
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October 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Perfect timing ahead of a trip with students later this term to The Story, home of County Durham archives, where Mustapha's photographic images and life story feature as part of the Durham Light Infantry collection. 🗃️📜📷📸
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
www.genesiscinema.co.uk/event/101321
September 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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
www.genesiscinema.co.uk/event/101321
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Exhibition opening soon! Combining Efforts: 200 Years of Trade Union History explores the development of trade unions since the 1825 Combination Act, through years of struggle, triumph, defeat, and resilience. With TUC Library @londonmetuni.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk
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September 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Exhibition opening soon! Combining Efforts: 200 Years of Trade Union History explores the development of trade unions since the 1825 Combination Act, through years of struggle, triumph, defeat, and resilience. With TUC Library @londonmetuni.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk
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