(doing a CBT-insomnia course and yesterday was my first night of sleep restriction (can only spend 5 hours in bed, regardless of whether I sleep during them) and omggg this is hell. broke my fast at 8am to have coffee cause i would not have made it to work otherwise. how do ppl w jobs survive this!)
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.
Damn near every policy this erratic government comes up with relating to higher education is worse than the last.
This is awful and this quote is despicable. bsky.app/profile/fina...
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.
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.
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.
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...
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 β€οΈβπ©Ή
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.
Jesus Christ. Reports that more than 300 inmates have died in Shala prison in Darfur in the last two months. www.middleeasteye.net/news/hundred...
Films by the lovely people from the Sudanese Film Group are now on Criterion (link: www.criterionchannel.com/sudanese-fil...)
Sorry only just seen this!
They finally made it, snow, ice, blisters and all π₯Ήπ. 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 β€οΈ
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 π
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...
Your students are lucky! (Was discussing Sudan nat. archives yday & an incident where a historian had relied uncritically on security records altho every protestor & inmate involved contested this record (exciting NYE chat I know) - so important you're having them think about limits as well)
ah your class sounds super cool, thank you for sharing the clip!
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.
The woman in the video is the late Hawa al-Tagtaga πππ. She was arrested multiple times and imprisoned for her anti-colonial activism and music. Although the footage is in B&W, her famous toab first worn here is in the colours of the old Sudanese flag (blue, yellow & green). bsky.app/profile/chri...
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Love Gramsci but that "I hate New Year's Day" column of his that always circulates at this time of year is (in my opinion) God awful.
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.
London yesterday (πΈ by Martin Gavin) #Sudan
'Sudan's Grain Divide: A revolution of bread and sorghum' (briefing) / Ψ«ΩΨ±Ψ© Ψ§ΩΨΉΩΨ΄ t.co/idWAsXUtu6
omg the replies to the post you're QTing.... π this app is cooked
'Two revolutions in one' kohljournal.press/Two-Revoluti...
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'Queering Space' kohljournal.press/queering-spa...
'Subaltern Formations and Sudan's 2018-19 Uprising' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Image of a train in a sea of revolutionaries waving Sudanese flags. Protestors fill the image, including many standing on top of the train.
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 π§΅
Arabic title is mo3alem fi tareekh el hizb el shyu3i
