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Sudan Syllabus

Academic and journalistic resources on Sudan's history, culture, people, and nature — accessible to English-speaking audiences.

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General Resources for Studying Sudan
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General
article To access articles and theses in this project, you can email the author of the article for a copy (see How to email your professor), email Razan Idris for a copy, or use SciHub (you can find article DOIs via Google Scholar).
article To access books in this project, use Worldcat to check your local library or university, which can often borrow books for you via inter-library loan. If you cannot physically access books mentioned in this project (for financial or location-based reasons), responsibly refer to gen.lib.rus.ec or library.memoryoftheworld.org or archive.org. Please do your best to financially support authors and libraries!
article Whenever reading any of the sources in this project, ask yourself the 6 Ws about the production of that source (see: Ultimate Critical Thinking Worksheet).
article University of Khartoum: Website, Digital Repository, and ResearchGate.
article Ahfad University for Women: Website, ResearchGate
article Omdurman Islamic University: Website, ResearchGate
article Sudan University of Science and Technology: Website, ResearchGate
article Khartoum International Institute for the Arabic Language: Website
article Sudanese academic journals: Ahfad University Journal, Sudan Notes and Records
article Academic associations: Sudans Studies Association, Society for the Studies of the Sudans UK, The Sudan Archaeological Research Society, International Journal of Sudan Research, CEDEJ Khartoum
article Sudanese newspapers (Arabic and English): Columbia University’s list, Arabic-Media’s list, SudanHub’s list, UltraSawt’s articles on Sudan
article Sudanese television channels (Arabic and English): List and Link to watch online
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Sudanese radio stations (Arabic and English): No link available
article Sudanese digital magazines: Andariya, 500 Words, The Niles, Sudanpreneur, Sudanow Magazine, XPO (link broken as of 2/15/18), Brownbook Khartoum Issue and Nubia Issue (link broken as of 02/28/21)
article Legal Guides and Open Sources on Sudan: American Governmental Sudan Guide, Columbia University Sudan Research Guide, Sudan Open Archive, RefWorld's Human Rights Watch Sudan publications,
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Twitter: #SudaneseExcellence, #SudaneseCulture, #ASudaneseRamadan, #IdentityinSudan, #SudaneseMinorities, #ZoulSoul, #SuDamn, #Sudan_Revolts, #SudanUprising, #BlueForSudan, #KeepEyesOnSudan No link available
article Free academic overview of Sudan: The Sudan Handbook
article AbdelRahman Ahmed AbdelRahman (social science),
article Abdel Salam Sidahmed (political science),
article Abdelwahab El-Affendi (political science),
article Abdullahi el-Tom (anthropology),
article Abdullahi Gallab (African studies),
article Abdullahi Ibrahim (history),
article Abubakr Elnoor (conflict resolution),
article Adeeb Yousif (conflict resolution),
article Ahmad Sikainga (history),
article Ahmed Hussain Adam (law),
article Ahmed Kodouda (Political Science),
article Ahmed Ibrahim Abushouk (history),
article Ali Dinar (history),
article Amal Fadlalla (anthropology),
article Amal Madibbo (sociology),
article Ameena Nayel (gender studies),
article Amir Idris (history),
article Amira Ahmed (anthropology),
article Amira Mohamed (international development),
article Amira Osman (architecture),
article Asma Abdel Halim (gender studies),
article Awad Ibrahim (education),
article Awatif Elnour (diversity studies),
article Bakry M. Elmedni (Business, Public Administration and Information Sciences),
article Bashair Ahmed (social science),
article Bayan Abubakar (History),
article Bedour Alagraa (Africana Studies),
article Bushra Hamad (Arabic),
article Dina Lutfi (art),
article Dima Mahmoud,
article Elsadig Elsheikh,
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Eltigani Abdelgadir Hamid, No link available
article Eiman O. Zein-Elabdin (economics),
article Esameddin Alhadi (Arabic cultural studies),
article Fatin Abbas (Comparative Lit),
article Hala Asmina Guta (media studies),
article Hamid E. Ali (public policy and economics),
article Hanaa Motasim (architecture),
article Harum Mukhayer (international law),
article Hassan Ahmed Ibrahim (history),
article Hunud Kadouf (law),
article Ibrahim Elnur (political science),
article Jamila El Gizuli (Political Science),
article Khadidja Medani (Geography),
article Khalid Kodi (Art),
article Khalid Mustafa Medani (political science),
article Magda Ahmed (education policy),
article Mahjoub Mahmoud el-Tigani (sociology),
article Mahmoud M. Galander (media studies),
article Mai Hassan (Political Science),
article Malik Balla (Islamic studies),
article Mariam Babiker (Arabic),
article Mark Fathi Massoud (political science),
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Mohammed Elnaiem, No link available
article Mohamed Khalifa (Arabic),
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Muddathir Abdel-Rahim (political science), No link available
article Mustafa Taha (media studies),
article Nada Eissa (economics),
article Nada Mustafa Ali (gender studies),
article Nisrin Elamin Abdelrahman (anthropology),
article Osman Suliman (economics),
article Rawan Mohamed (History),
article Rogaia Abusharaf (anthropology),
article Saadia Izzeldin Malik (media studies),
article Sara Abbas (development studies),
article Salah M. Hassan (art history),
article Souad T. Ali (MENA studies),
article Suad Mustafa Elhag Musa (social science),
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Suliman Baldo, No link available
article Umniya Najaer (Modern Literature),
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Sudanese diasporic academics in the humanities/social sciences without a Sudan publication or Sudan specialization: No link available
article Aisha Sayidina (Arabic/linguistics),
article Faiza El Higzi (political science, gender and diaspora studies),
article Hala Fawzi (English)
article Hibba Abugideiri (history),
article Ibrahim Hamid Badr (French),
article Shiera Sharafuddin el-Malik (International Studies),
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Tagelsir Elrayah (Arabic), No link available
Creative Art History and Material Culture
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Artisanry and Craftsmanship (also see: Clothing and Beauty)
book Boat building in the Sudan: material culture and its contribition to the understanding of Sudanese cultural morphology
book The Social Economics of Small Craft Production: The Sword and Knife Makers of Kassala, Eastern Sudan September 1984
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Manawashai basketry: Famine, change, and creativity No link available
book THE IRONWORKING INDUSTRY OF PRECOLONIAL NUBIAN KORDOFAN
article Forging Through Adversity: The Blacksmiths of North Darfur and Practical Action
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Ethno‐Archaeology of Pottery Firing in Darfur, Sudan: Implications for Ceramic Technology Studies No link available
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Pottery tempered with sponge from the White Nile, Sudan No link available
article The `angarêb in Northern Sudan: More than just a bed
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Nubian Leatherwork No link available
article Cottage Industries in Western Sudan with Special Reference to Women Handicrafts
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Rizekat Wedding Baskets, Sudan No link available
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Encyclopedia of embroidery from the Arab world (Chapter: "Embroidery from Sudan") No link available
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The Sudanese Camel Girth in Double Weave No link available
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At home with displacement? Material culture as a site of resistance in Sudan No link available
article Color symbolism in the Sudanese Zar rituals
contemporary Handicrafts Bring Back the 'Made in Sudan' Initiative
contemporary Weaving Brighter Futures: Generating Income, Reviving Regional Crafts
contemporary The art of pottery making in Sudan
contemporary Blog: Giving Form to Clay; Women Potters in Sudan (Part 1 and Part 2)
contemporary Sudanese blacksmiths make jewelry
contemporary The filigree jewellery of Sudanese-born designer, Maya Antoun
contemporary Celebrities Favorite Toab Designer
contemporary A Vanishing Craft: Khartoum’s Handmade Skull Caps
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Siddig el Nigoumi : a Sudanese potter in England No link available
film "Mud Missive" Part 1 and Part 2 - essay-documentary by Fatin Abbas on pottery on the White Nile
film Craftsmen warn pottery is dying art in Sudan
film Centuries old trade of sword making under threat in Sudan
film The long tradition of filigree jewellery making in Sudan
film Women's craftwork in Kassala
film Traditional skills still produce unique crafts (wood carving)
Modern Art
article Locale’s Directory of Creatives in Sudan
article Artists from Sudan (Alphabetical List)
article Sudanese Women Painters (Twitter Thread)
article Podcast: Dukkan
book
Art, politics, and cultural identification in Sudan No link available
book Developing African Art: Innovation and tradition seen through the work of two artists: Lamisil Fakye and Ahmed Shibrain
book Ibrahim El-Salahi and the Making of African and Transnational Modernism
book In Search Of A Face: Salih Abdou Mashamoun - The Sun and the Eclipse
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Seven stories about modern art in Africa (Chapter: "The Khartoum and Addis connections") No link available
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New currents, ancient rivers: contemporary African artists in a generation of change (Chapter: "Desert Light: Sudan") No link available
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The Art Of Truck Modding On The Nile (Sudan): An Attempt To Trace Creativity No link available
contemporary (Conference) Modernity and the Making of Identity in Sudan: Remembering the Sixties and Seventies
contemporary “We Painted the Crystal, We Thought About the Crystal”—The Crystalist Manifesto (Khartoum, 1976) in Context
contemporary Ibrahim el-Salahi: From Sudanese prison to Tate Modern show
contemporary Sudanese artist Kamala Ishaq selected for Dutch award
contemporary Sudan’s extraordinary artistic revival
contemporary Cartoonist’s Pen Leaves Mark Across Arab World
contemporary Art against the odds: new book showcases Sudan's isolated creatives
contemporary SUDAN'S ARTISTS OF THE REVOLUTION
contemporary Sudan’s street protests have inspired another revolution—in art
contemporary In pictures: The art fuelling Sudan's revolution
contemporary The Current Situation for Illustrators and Children’s Books in Sudan
contemporary
(SAMPLED) Contemporary Artists No link available
contemporary Cartoons + Illustration: Khalid al-Baih, Buthaina Usama, Art Kanoon, Yakam Dudes, Alaa Musa, Yousuf Elameen (Life as a Baldy),
contemporary Traditional + Digital Art: Israa el-Kogali, Rashid Diab, Abdallah Abbas, Assil Diab, Sara Amin, Galal Yousif, Wael Alsanosi, Ahmed Hamad, Mitsuky (Randa Jaafer), Malazkaboom,
contemporary Galleries + Studios: Rashid Diab Arts Center, Mojo Gallery, Tartar Studio, Dar al Naim, Khartoum Contemporary Art Center (Oslo, Norway), Dabanga Gallery (UK-based)
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Contemporary Artists of the Sudan: Art in Time of Adversity No link available
contemporary
Sudan Retold No link available
Photography
article Sudan Historical Photography Archive (University of Khartoum)
article Matson (G. Eric and Edith) Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
article Yasser Alwan Collection (NYU Libraries)
article Sudanese 20th-21st Century Press Photos (Getty Images)
article Sudan Search Images (Alamy Images)
article Old Sudanese Photos (closed Facebook group run by Sudanese moderators)
article Elnour (run by French photographer Claude Iverné)
article The Unity High School Archive (run by former teacher Steve Gooch)
article Abbas Attar, Sudan 1993 (Magnum photographer who visited Sudan - twitter thread of his photos found in the book Allah O Akbar)
article Lynsey Addario, Darfur 2004 (independent photojournalist)
article Sudanese Photographers' Group - Flickr (run by Ala Kheir of the SPG)
article Sudan Search Images (Flickr)
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The Sudan: photographs from the Sudan Archive, Durham University Library No link available
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Photography in Africa: Ethnographic Perspectives (two chapters on Sudan) No link available
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Images of empire: photographic sources for the British in the Sudan No link available
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Kodaking a Just War: Photography, Architecture and the Language of Damage in the Egyptian Sudan, 1884–1898 No link available
article "Visual Culture" (pages 55-60 of Living with Colonialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan)
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Eyes on the Ground and Eyes in the Sky. Satellite and Participatory Surveillance: Photography in Sudan No link available
contemporary Wikipedia: Photography of Sudan
contemporary Time Travel Booth: 70’s And 80’s Sudan by Abbas Habiballa
film Video: Al-Rashid Mahadi
film Video: Around Khartoum Walks | Sudanese Street Photographers
contemporary Where the White Nile and the Blue Nile Meet: The Sudanese Photographers Group
contemporary The Visual Life of Revolution: Archival and Counter-archival Narratives of Revolt
contemporary Scared, worried and hopeful: A Sudanese photographer's view of the uprising
contemporary
(SAMPLED) Contemporary Photographers No link available
contemporary Photos: Sudanese Photographers Group, Humans of Khartoum, Muhammed Elsamani, Ahmad Abushakeema, Sari Omer, Nagi Elmalik, Salih Basheer, Ala Kheir, Ola Alsheikh, Dia Khalil, Makki Rashid, Muhammad Salah Abdul-Aziz, Ahmed Hassan, Hisham Abdulaziz, Maimana Mohammed Abbas, Hisham Karouri, Amin Rashid
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Sand in my eyes: Sudanese moments No link available
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Sudan: the land and the people No link available
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George Rodger Nuba & Latuka: The Colour Photographs No link available
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Nuba personal art No link available
Film and Theater
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The Local Meets the Global in Performance (Chapter: The Struggle for Local Sudanese Theater in Colonial and Postcolonial Times) No link available
contemporary Sudan: 'Cinema will rise again'
contemporary A very brief history of Sudanese filmmaking
contemporary Director Abbady Speaks On the Status of Cinema Industry in Sudan
contemporary Gadalla Gubara: Sudan’s Forgotten Filmmaking Legend
film Life in film: preserving the legacy of Sudanese film-maker Jadallah Jubara
contemporary The Invisible Rise Of The Phoenix: How Sudanese Cinema is Missing its Most Important Pillar
contemporary Prof. Salih Abdul Gadir On Concerns Of Sudanese Theatre
film Documentary: Sudan’s Forgotten Films, The Rebel Puppeteers of Sudan
contemporary Organizations: Sudan Film Factory, Sudan Independent Film Festival, Sudanese Film Group,
contemporary UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador: Ali Mahdi Nouri
film Muaz Osman, Noory Taha, Maha Jaafar, Zool Café, Heart of Africa, Hind Elhaj, Moohy Elbawadi, O-Max, Shahd Batal, Mohamed Kordofani,
film Faisal Goes West (interview with filmmaker here) - about Sudanese immigrants in the 2000s US.
film Kejer’s Prison - about Sudanese security forces vs. protestors in the 2019 protests
film Barakat al-Shaykh Kamil - Jadalla Jubara’s production of Mustafa Ibrahim Mohammed’s short story.
Music and Dance (Also see Poetry Studies)
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Accordion Music from Sudan: Cultural and Historical Features No link available
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Perspectives on African Music (Chapter: Musical traditions, Islam and cultural identity in the Sudan) No link available
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Exploring Aghani Al-Banat: A Postcolonial Ethnographic Approach to Sudanese Women's Songs, Culture, and Performance No link available
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'God Gave Me A Good Voice To Sing': Female Wedding Singers in Great-Khartoum, Sudan No link available
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New Bad Girls of Sudan: Women Singers in the Sudanese Diaspora No link available
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Women Singers in Darfur, Sudan Republic No link available
book The Sudan Identity in al-Ḥaqībah Songs’ Texts 1920-1940
book Sudanese Industrial Sound: Sonic Labour in a Truck Workshop
contemporary Ahmad Sikainga on Sudan, A Musical History (accompanying podcast)
contemporary A Pioneer of Modernity: Aisha al-Fallatiya
contemporary Women Singers in Sudan (outdated report from the 90s)
contemporary The Golden Era of Omdurman Songs
contemporary You Need to Hear This Mixtape of Vintage Golden Era Sudanese Music
contemporary 'There was music on every corner of every street in Khartoum'
contemporary Sudan's accidental megastar who came back from the dead
contemporary The Story of Mohammed Wardi: The Last King of the Nubia
contemporary Singing the Song of the Nubian Diaspora
contemporary Music from the Blue Nile: unique recordings from Sudan's refugee camps
contemporary One Sudan Marriage Ritual: An Alluring Dance
contemporary The Dancing Queens of Sudan
contemporary
(SAMPLED) Contemporary and Past Musicians No link available
contemporary Singers using English: Nile, Sinkane, Oddisee, Bas, S.L.M.N, roTation, Sudan Roots,
contemporary Modern: Rasha, Aswat Al Madina, Nazim, Alsarah and the Nubatones, Salute Yal Banoot, Mazin Hamid, Sammany Hajo, Mosno al-Moseeki, Ramey Dawoud, Sufvyn, Ayman Mao, N.E.F.6 MAFIA, Hashim/Brainstorm,
contemporary Traditional or past: Sara Fadol’s Sudanese Music Channel, the Sudanese Music Blog, Sayed Khalifa (obituary), Abdel Razek Vika (his song Kida Kida), Mohammed Wardi (obituary), Abdel Karim el Kabli (article), Al-Balabil (article), Sharhabeel Ahmed (article), Aisha al-Falatiyya (article), Abdel Gadir Salim, Abdel Aziz El Mubarak, Setona, Miami Band (Kuwaiti but Sudanese-themed, their song Ya Hilukum), Hanan al-Neel, Nancy Ajaj, Nada al Galaa, Gisma, Iman London, Insaf Madani, Awadia Azab, Kamal Tarbas (blog article), Mahmoud Abdelaziz (article/obituary), Sunai al-Nagham (Zeynab Khalifa and Khadiga Mohammed),
contemporary Dalooka (Drums) Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL63FA278C43BEB24E
film Video: Folk dances from around Sudan
contemporary Twitter thread: Dances from around Sudan
film Video: Tamboor instrument
contemporary Spotify Playlist: Sudan Sounds
Clothing and Beauty
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Contextual analysis of dress and adornment in Al-Fashir, Sudan No link available
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An Illustrated Record of Sudanese National Costumes No link available
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Encyclopedia of Embroidery from the Arab World (Chapter: Embroidery from Sudan) No link available
book A Thematic Analysis of Female University Students’ Perception of Idealised Body Image in Sudan and Their Experiences of Performing Common Beauty Practices: (Skin Lightening, Applying Black Henna Dye and Purposively Induced Weight)
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Colorism in Context: How Young African American and Sudanese Women Experience Their Skin Color No link available
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Imported Blue Cotton Cloth: status clothing for rural women in pre-colonial Dar Fur No link available
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Design in Needlework in Omdurman Area No link available
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Marriage Customs in Omdurman No link available
article The Sudanese Concept of Beauty, Spirit Possession, and Power
article Space, place and meaning in northern riverain Sudan
article Thesis: Movement in tradition: tobe
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Body Aesthetics & Beauty Politics in 21st Century Africa: Case of the Sudan No link available
film About Sudanese Tobe (Instructional how-to-wear video)
contemporary Sudanese Toub: Renewable world despite typical design
contemporary Article: Movement in tradition: how mothers and daughters relate to the Sudanese tobe.
film Video: Movement in tradition
contemporary The Nubian Women’s Costume (jarjar)
contemporary The Darfur Sartorialist
contemporary Slim in Sudan: Female Fleshiness Loses Its Allure
contemporary The Natural Hair Movement in Sudan
contemporary The Art of Beauty for Sudanese Women
contemporary Sudan: Aesthetic Heritage, story of the scars and beauty
contemporary "Mutilatory Surgery" in Sudan
contemporary Sudanese Wedding Rituals and Traditions
contemporary Blog: “A Necklace of Shells from Distant Seas…”
Perfume
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Academic articles: No link available
article Sudan’s Aromatic Culture
article Up in Smoke
contemporary A Sudanese smoke bath detoxifies the skin and brings back memories
contemporary Memories of Bint el Sudan
contemporary Khumrah – Traditional Sudanese Perfume
contemporary Incense- Charm, Ritual, Brisk Trade
contemporary
Personal blog posts: No link available
contemporary Perfuming my daughter
contemporary Sensory Experience: Bakhoor
contemporary Creating Aromatic Experiences with Azza Gallab
Architecture
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Umm Durman during the Mahdiyya No link available
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The domed tombs of Eastern Sudan: their functional, cultural and psychological values No link available
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Practicing Sufism: Sufi Politics and Performance in Africa (Chapter: Historical perspectives on the domed shrine in the Nilotic Sudan) No link available
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The Archaeology of Mobility: Old World and New World Nomadism (Chapter: History of the Nomadic Architecture of the Hadendowa in Northeast Sudan) No link available
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The coral buildings of Suakin: Islamic architecture, planning, design and domestic arrangements in a red sea port No link available
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Cultural Tourism: Unearthing Sudan's Hidden Gems No link available
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House Decoration in Nubia No link available
article Prof. Zuhal Awad’s ResearchGate articles on urban development in Khartoum
article Rethinking Khartoum's Colonial Architecture: A Case Study of a Forgotten Legacy along Nile Street
article Sudanese Architecture Around Independence
article Modern Architecture in Khartoum, 1950 - 1990
article Architecture in Sudan 1900-2014: An Endeavor Against the Odds
article The mud traditional architecture of the Sudan and Saudi Arabia: The difference in employment techniques
article Heritage and Modern Regionalism in Khartoum
article Critical Regionalism: Studies on Contemporary Residential Architecture of Khartoum-Sudan
article Emerging architectural patterns and contemporary architectural identity: a case of Khartoum City Centre Sudan
article Thoughts on the role of architects in two African contexts: The re-making of urban identity
article Continuity & Changes in the Morphology of Urban Sudanese Homes
article A New Trend in Urban Housing: Gated Communities in Khartoum, Sudan
article Space, place and meaning in northern riverain Sudan
article Beyond the Sit-In: Public Space Production and Appropriation in Sudan’s December Revolution, 2018
contemporary Sudan student protests show how much city planning and design matter
contemporary Sudan: The Symbolic Significance of the Space Protesters Made Their Own
contemporary The State of Urbanism and Architecture in Sudan
contemporary Sudanese Modern Architecture
contemporary 10 Sudanese Buildings To Reflect The Diverse Culture of Africa
contemporary The Decorated Houses of Nubia
contemporary The Stories Behind the Walls of Sudanese Homes
Cuisine
article SUDANESE COOKING with Amal Gourashi Kok
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The Indigenous Fermented Foods of the Sudan: A Study in African Food and Nutrition No link available
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“Food and differential roles in the Fetiehab household” (in The Sudanese Woman) No link available
contemporary Why are there so few Sudanese cookbooks?
contemporary And In Sudan, A Famished Food Culture
contemporary Agashe: Sudan's homage to its African roots
contemporary Sudanese drinks to quench your thirst
contemporary Sudan's pride is a soda that tastes like, well, whatever you think it tastes like
contemporary Sudan’s Mysterious, Almost-but-Not-Quite Liquor
contemporary Sudanese recipes
contemporary Sudan’s Traditional Foods Festival: A Varied, Rich Nutritional Culture
contemporary Sudanese traditional medicine (mentions many traditional foods as well as animal products)
contemporary Sudanese Kitchen
contemporary Taste of Sudan
contemporary Sambuxa NYC
Sports and Games
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Before the Bright Star: Football in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan No link available
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Sport in the Eastern Sudan: From Souakin to the Blue Nile No link available
article CHANGING CUSTOMS OF THE RIVERAIN SUDAN—II (includes descriptions of children’s games)
contemporary Despite daily struggles, Sudanese passionate about racing
contemporary Horses In Sudan
contemporary In Sudan, Nubans challenge prejudice in the wrestling ring
contemporary Football Legend Jaksa Says Still Unmatched
contemporary Sudan footballers hope for revolution boost
contemporary Sudan's 'sister coach' takes love of football to field
contemporary Bio of an Achiever: Munira Ramadan Abu Bakr Muhammad (Page 154 of XPO Magazine)
contemporary MEET SUDANESE PIONEER MUNIRA RAMADAN, THE FIRST FEMALE FOOTBALL REFEREE IN THE ARAB WORLD AND AFRICA
contemporary Darfur: Football for Peace
contemporary The Nubian Folklore Games in North Sudan
contemporary Changing Customs Of The Riverain Sudan (The Games of the Girls)
contemporary Ismail Ahmed Ismail: From last place to Sudan’s first Olympic medal
film Film: Khartoum Offside (Trailer)
Museums and Archives
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Violence, Globalization and the Trade in "ethnographic" artefacts in nineteenth-century Sudan No link available
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Records of Dispossession: Archival Thinking and UNESCO's Nubian Campaign in Egypt and Sudan No link available
article Museums in the Sudan: History, Current situation and challenges
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Preserving the cultural heritage of Sudan through digitization: Developing Digital Sudan No link available
article Sudanese Memory Institutions and Digital Technology
Literature and Expression
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Literature and Poetry
article Arabic Literature in Translation: Sudan
article The Use of Sudan in Some English Novels (1970s study)
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Sudanese Magical Realism: Another Kind of Resistance to the Colonial/Imperialist Power? No link available
article Altayeb Salih (obituary): Season of Migration to the North, The Wedding of Zein, Bandarshah, Mansi A Rare Man In His Own Way,
article Leila Aboulela (website): Coloured Lights, The Translator, Minaret, Lyrics Alley, The Kindness of Enemies, Elsewhere, Home
article Rania Mamoun: Thirteen Months of Sunrise (contributions at Banipal)
article Jamal Mahjoub (website): In the Hour of Signs, Navigation of a Rainmaker
article Arif Gamal: Morning in Serra Mattu: A Nubian Ode
article Hammour Ziada: The Longing of the Dervish: A Novel
article Safia Elhillo (website): The January Children
article Umniya Najaer: Armeika, in this chapbook
article Emtithal Mahmoud (article): Sisters’ Entrance
article Tarek Eltayeb: The Palm House: A Modern Arabic Novel, Cities Without Palms
article Stella Gaitano: (contributions at Banipal) Withered Flowers
article Najlaa Eltom: (contributions at Words Without Borders)
article Amir Tag Elsir: French Perfume, The Grub Hunter, Ebola ‘76, The Yelling Dowry
article Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin: The Jungo: Stakes of the Earth
article Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi: A monkey at the window : selected poems
article Mirghani Hassan: The General and the Frogs
article Bushra Elfadil: The Story of the Girl Whose Birds Flew Away
article Yousif Izzat AlMahri: Stirring Ashes
article Literary Sudans : an anthology of literature from Sudan and South Sudan
article I Know Two Sudans
article The Book of Khartoum
article Modern Sudanese poetry : an anthology
article He Tells Tales of Meroe (article)
article Banipal Magazine: Sudan Issue
Children’s Books (set in Sudan)
article Listen, Layla (by Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Sudanese diasporic author)
article The Red Pencil
article My Great-Grandmother's Gourd
article Kadisa (bilingual book by Rasha Hamid, a Sudanese author)
article Explore Sudan: My First Trip to Sudan (by Nouar Elsaid, Sudanese author)
article Explore Sudan: The Treasure (Al-Kanz): A Visual Guide To Sudan's States
article Hind’s Hands (not set in Sudan but co-written by Juwayriyah Ayed, the Sudanese-American daughter of the author)
Poetry (Studies of) and Folklore
article Sudanese Poetry in the 20th Century
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A Sudanese view of comparative poetry No link available
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Conflict and Identity: The Cultural Poetics of Contemporary Sudanese Poetry No link available
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"But They Can't Manage to Silence Us:" Mahjoub Sharif's Prison Poem “A Homesick Sparrow”(1990) as Resistance to Political Confinement No link available
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Dismantling the history of slavery and colonization in the poetry of Mohamed Al-Fayturi and Langston Hughes No link available
article Reconstructing Africa in the poetry of Langston Hughes and Mohamed Al-Fayturi
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On al-Tijani the Sudanese Poet No link available
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In praise of the Prophet: the performance and thematic composition of the Sudanese religious oral poetry (see “Religious Life” for more on religious oral culture) No link available
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The Role of Oral Poetry in Reshaping and Constructing Sudanese History (1820-1956) No link available
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Mahdist Oral Praise Poetry as a Historical Source: Qurashi Muhammad Hasan's Qasa'id min Shu'ara'al-Mahdiyya No link available
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The Role of Sudanese Rural Women's Oral Folk Poetry in Their Social Life: With Regard to Darfur Culture No link available
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Poetry of the Haḍenḍiwa No link available
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Ethics and Oral Poetry in Beja Society (Sudan) No link available
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Assaulting with words: The sociopoetics of the Rubatab evil eye metaphors No link available
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Assaulting with Words: Discourse and the Bridle of Shari'ah No link available
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Ja'aliyyin Folktales: An Interplay of African, Arabian, and Islamic Elements. (VOLUMES I AND II) No link available
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Wisdom from the Nile: Collection of Folk Stories from Northern and Central Sudan No link available
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The Clever Sheikh of the Butana and Other Stories: Sudanese Folk Tales No link available
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Masalit Stories No link available
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Stories of Serra East No link available
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Sudanese Historiography and Oral Tradition No link available
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Sudanese Proverbs: Translated, Transliterated & Explained No link available
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Sudan Arabic texts with translation and glossary No link available
Memoirs
article The memoirs of Babikr Bedri (Volumes I and II)
article Remembering childhood in the Middle East: memoirs from a century of change (Chapter: Awad Abdelrehim Abdelgadir)
article The Autobiography I Wrote Begins at a Zaghawa Village in Darfur
article Growing Up in Darfur, Sudan
article The Translator: A Memoir
article Tears of the Desert
article A Line in the River: Khartoum, City of Memory
article My Nile Odyssey
article Melodies Not Militants: An African Artist's Message of Hope
article Through Tragedy and Triumph: A Life Well Traveled
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non-Sudanese No link available
article Daughter of dust: growing up an outcast in the desert of Sudan (a ghost-written Sudanese memoir)
article Desert songs: a woman explorer in Egypt and Sudan
article Emma’s War
article Six Months in Sudan
article The Problem is Not Available: 364 Days in Sudan
article In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and its People (18th century memoir)
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War Child: A Child Soldier's Story No link available
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God Grew Tired of Us No link available
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The Boy Who Wouldn't Die No link available
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Out of the Impossible: The Hope of the Lost Boy No link available
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Seed of South Sudan: Memoir of a "Lost Boy" Refugee No link available
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They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys of Sudan No link available
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The Phoenix of South Sudan: A Lost Boy's Journey to a New World No link available
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Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan No link available
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What They Meant for Evil: How a Lost Girl of Sudan Found Healing, Peace, and Purpose in the Midst of Suffering No link available
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Alek: My Life from Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel No link available
Contemporary Bloggers
article Nas with Notepads, Nubian Q, Young Literary Bloggers,
article Lists: SudanHub’s archived list, Twitter’s Sudanese Bloggers
Media (studies of)
article Voices of a Nation in a Contested Social Space: Radio and Conflict Transformation in Sudan
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A Century in Print: Arabic Journalism and Nationalism in Sudan, 1899-1999 No link available
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Press freedom and political stability in the Sudan: A study of the role of the press in the Third Democratic Period (1986-1989) No link available
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Sudan Media Makers: Writings from the Diaspora No link available
Oral History
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Academic Articles+Books (which prominently use oral history or theorize it) See Oral Poetry for more! No link available
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Sudanese Historiography and Oral Tradition No link available
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The Role of Oral Poetry in Reshaping and Constructing Sudanese History (1820-1956) No link available
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Mahdist Oral Praise Poetry as a Historical Source: Qurashi Muhammad Hasan's Qasa'id min Shu'ara'al-Mahdiyya No link available
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The Politicization of Religious Identity in Sudan, with Special Reference to Oral Histories of the Sudanese Diaspora in America No link available
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An Oral and Documentary History of the Darfur Genocide No link available
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Feminist method, process, and self-criticism: Interviewing Sudanese women. (Chapter written by non-Sudanese anthroplogist in Women’s words: The feminist practice of oral history) No link available
article Oral Histories: The Sudan Experience Project (transcripts of nearly 100 interviews with those who negotiated the Comprehensive Peace Agreement)
article Star City Treasures: Adult Interviews (Sudanese immigrants in Nebraska)
article Oral history interview with Zoya Elhassan
article Muslims in Brooklyn: Alsarah Abunama-Elgadi
article Darfurian Genocide
article Henriette Eshkenazi. Jewish Childhood in Sudan.
article Refugee Lives Oral History Project, 2015-2017
article The Messenger (podcast with Abdul Aziz Muhamat, refugee on Manus Island)
article StoryCorps: Sudan
article Fatima: An Oral History
article Don’t Speak: A Sudanese refugee on life in Darfur
contemporary Symposium nudges documentation of Sudan’s oral history
Language Politics and Linguistics
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General
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Language Policies in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan: A Language Ideological Perspective No link available
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The colonial linguistics of governance in Sudan: the Rejaf Language Conference, 1928 No link available
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Sudan: Majorities, minorities, and language interactions No link available
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The politics of language, culture, religion and race in the Sudan No link available
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Language, identities and ideologies: a new era for Sudan No link available
article Language and ethnic statistics in 20th century Sudanese censuses and surveys
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The sociolinguistics of nationalism in the Sudan: The politicisation of Arabic and the Arabicisation of politics No link available
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Challenges to management of linguistic diversity in the Sudan No link available
article Linguistic Diversity and Language Endangerment in the Sudan
article Language maintenance and shift in Sudan: The case of migrant ethnic groups in Khartoum
article Language and identity in the context of conflict: the case of ethnolinguistic communities in South Darfur State
article The status and use of African languages versus Arabic in Sudan: A sociolinguistic survey in Nyala, Darfur
article The Beja Language Today in Sudan: The State of the Art in Linguistics
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The old Shaiqi language in historical perspective No link available
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A Descriptive Study on Keiga Language of the Nuba Mountains in Sudan No link available
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Fulfulde in the Sudan: process of adaptation to Arabic No link available
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Proverbs and Idiomatic Phrases in Zaghawa Language No link available
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A Masalit grammar with notes on other languages of Darfur and Wadai by John Edgar No link available
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Native and non-native varieties of Arabic in an emerging urban centre of western Sudan: Evidence from Kadugli No link available
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Language status and use in Dilling City, the Nuba Mountains No link available
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Sudanese Arabic: phonematics and syllable structure No link available
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A Descriptive Analysis Of Sudanese Colloquial Arabic Phonology No link available
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Chadian and Sudanese Arabic in the Light of Comparative Arabic Dialectology No link available
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Sudanese Arabic-English, English-Sudanese Arabic : a concise dictionary No link available
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Sudanese Colloquial Arabic for Beginners No link available
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Spoken Sudanese Arabic: grammar, dialogues, and glossary No link available
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Conversational Arabic Quick and Easy: Sudanese Dialect No link available
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A Learner's Grammar of Beja (East Sudan) No link available
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A Grammar of the Fur Language No link available
book Beria [Zaghawa] dictionary
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The Sound System of Zaghawa Language No link available
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The morphosyntactic structure of the Zaghawa language in Sudan. Focus: The Wegi dialect No link available
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Directions in Sudanese linguistics and folklore No link available
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Language planning in Africa: the Cameroon, Sudan and Zimbabwe No link available
book The Politics of Language Planning in the Sudan: the Case of the Naivasha Language Policy
book Linguistic Politics In Sudan: Issues Of Power, Ideology And Cultural Difference
contemporary Ethnologue Guide to Sudanese Languages
contemporary Sudanese Languages and Dialects: Cultural Transferring Tools, or an Obstacle in the Way Towards a Unified Identity?
contemporary Do you speak Nubian? The struggle to protect a language in danger
contemporary App: Nubi (Interview with creator: An App for the Nubian Language)
contemporary Reddit: Resources for Learning Indigenous Sudanese Languages
Education and Academic Politics
32 resources ►
General
book Education in Colonial Sudan (1900-1957)
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Before the wind changed : People, places and education in the Sudan No link available
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Girls' Education in the Northern Sudan (1898-1956) No link available
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Development and problems of girls' education in northern Sudan No link available
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THE RISE AND DECLINE OF THE PEOPLE'S (AHLIA) EDUCATION IN THE NORTHERN SUDAN (1927–1957) No link available
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Towards social progress and post‐imperial modernity? Colonial politics of literacy in the Anglo‐Egyptian Sudan, 1946–1956 No link available
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Sudan Notes and Records and Sudanese Nationalism, 1918–1956 No link available
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History Teaching, Imperialism and Decolonization in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1945-1958) No link available
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Civilising Teachers, Modernising the Sudanese: Colonial Education and “Character Training” in Postwar Sudan, 1945–1953 No link available
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The Kitchener School of Medicine: 20th-century medical education in Sudan No link available
book A Historical Study on National Secondary Schools (Wadi Sayydna, Hantoub, Khur Taggat)
book Colonial education and the shaping of Islamism in Sudan, 1946–1956.
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The Student's Movement in the Sudan: 1940-1970 No link available
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'Shama will not dance': University of Khartoum politics, 1964-69 No link available
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An analysis of the implementation of the new educational policy in the Sudan, 1970-1985 No link available
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Government policy on higher education in the Sudan, 1970 to 1985 No link available
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Sudanese women and education: The struggle for equal access and participation No link available
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Reflecting on Sudan's higher education revolution under Al-Bashir's regime No link available
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A Nation In Turmoil: Is Education To Blame? An Analysis of Sudan's National Basic Education Curriculum No link available
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Networks of knowledge production in Sudan: identities, mobilities, and technologies No link available
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Nomad's Education in the Sudan: The Mobile School Experiment No link available
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The khalwa as an Islamic educational institution in the Sudan. No link available
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Educational Change and the Khalwa in the Sudan: Reform Reformed No link available
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Education in the Sudan: the privileging of an Islamic discourse No link available
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Sudanese images of the other: Education and conflict in Sudan No link available
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Traditional Education and Creativity in an Afro‐Arab Islamic Culture: The Case of Sudan No link available
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Adult education through art in the sudan No link available
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Anthropology in the Sudan: Reflections by a Sudanese Anthropologist No link available
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Past, present and future: Fifty years of anthropology in Sudan No link available
contemporary Educational Policies in Sudan
contemporary Sudan - Preprimary & Primary Education (slightly outdated article on Qur’an schools)
contemporary Sudanese Universities as Sites of Social Transformation (NGO report)
Religious Life
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The History of Islam in Africa (Chapter 5: Precolonial Islam in the Eastern Sudan) No link available
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Muslim Societies in Africa (Chapter 6: Islam in Nubia and the Funj. Chapter 7: Egyptian Colonialism and the Mahdi in Sudan) No link available
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Holymen of the Blue Nile : the making of an Arab-Islamic community in the Nilotic Sudan, 1500-1850 No link available
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Scholars, saints and Sufis: Muslim religious institutions in the Middle East since 1500 (Chapter: Mahdis, walis and new men in the Sudan) No link available
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Permanent pilgrims : the role of pilgrimage in the lives of West African Muslims in Sudan No link available
book Between Niger and Nile: New Light on Fulani Mahdist Muhammad al-Dadari
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Sayyid ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Mahdī : a study of neo-Mahdīsm in the Sudan, 1899-1955 No link available
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Enigmatic Saint: Ahmad Ibn Idris and the Idrisi Tradition No link available
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A Study of Contemporary Sudanese Muslim Saints' Legends in Sociocultural Contexts No link available
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The history of the Isma'iliyya Tariqa in the Sudan, 1792-1914 No link available
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Al Majdhubiyya and Al Mikashfiyya: two sufi tariqas in the Sudan No link available
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Changing modalities in the globalization of Islamic saint veneration and mysticism: Sidi Ibrahim al-Dasuqi, Shaykh Muhammad'Uthman al-Burhani, and their Sufi orders No link available
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Doctrines and practices of the Burhaniya Sufi Order in the arab world and in the west between 1938 and 2012: a decolonial and transdisciplinary analysis from an insider perspective No link available
book Middle Class and Sufism: The Case Study of the Sammaniyya Order Branch of Shaikh Al Bur’ai
book The Dynamics Of Interpretation Of Textual Islam In Northern Sudan: Case Study Among The Rural And Urban Population Of Shendi Province
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Wombs and alien spirits : women, men, and the Zār cult in Northern Sudan No link available
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Comparing the incomparable: Religion, chanting, and healing in the Sudan, the case of zãr and zikr No link available
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Drinking the Koran: The meaning of Koranic verses in Berti erasure No link available
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The Religious Men in Jebel Marra: The Process of Learning and the Performance of Islamic Rituals and Practices No link available
book Islam, traditional beliefs and ritual practices among the Zaghawa of Sudan
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Religion, identities, and politics: Defining Muslim discourses in the Nuba Mountains of the Sudan No link available
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The British, The 'Ulamâ', and Popular Islam in the Early Anglo-Egyptian Sudan No link available
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A Contemporary Account of the Conversion of the Sudan to Christianity No link available
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Islam and Christianity in the horn of Africa : Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan No link available
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History of Western Christian evangelism in the Sudan, 1898-1964 No link available
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"Struggling to be heard": the Christian voice in independent Sudan, 1956-1996 No link available
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In joy and in sorrow : travels among Sudanese Christians No link available
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Christian-Muslim Relations among the Internally Displaced Persons in Khartoum: Case of Mandela and Wad Al-Bashir Camps No link available
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Jacob's Children in the Land of the Mahdi: Jews of the Sudan No link available
book Sudanese ethics
contemporary Sudanese Jews recall long-lost world with nostalgia
contemporary Tales of Jewish Sudan
contemporary Sufi Sheikhs, Sheikhas, and Saints of the Sudan
contemporary Salafis in Sudan: Non-Interference or Confrontation
contemporary How Sudan’s diaspora uses social media to marshal Ramadan meals
film Documentary: Hilu Murr (about Sudanese traditions during Ramadan)
contemporary Sudanese Qur’an Reciters: http://www.assabile.com/quran/sudan
contemporary Athan (Muslim call to prayer) in Sudan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV-ZRQjgCSk
contemporary Madeeh (Prophetic Praise-Poetry) Radio Sudan: https://beta.tunein.com/radio/Madeeh-Radio---Sudan-s272001/
contemporary Poem of Al-Burdah (The Mantle) recitation by Shaykh Al Fatih Muhammad Uthman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaASj_R1GvM
Gender, Family, and Sexuality
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book For more academia on “women in Sudan”, see Kathleen Sheldon’s comprehensive 2010 bibliography.
book For a list of self-published books by Ellen Ismail and Maureen Makki, see here.
book http://sihanet.org/content/sudan
book http://www.distel.ca/womlist/countries/sudan.html
book No To Women's Oppression Initiative
book AlSudaniya Mentoring
Gender in Colonial and pre-Independence Sudan
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Chronicles of progress: Northern Sudanese women in the era of British imperialism No link available
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Zainab's Story: Slavery, Women and Community in Colonial Sudan No link available
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Shari'a Courts and the Manumission of Female Slaves in the Sudan, 1898-1939 No link available
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Frontiers of medicine in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1899-1940 No link available
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“We Have Supped So Deep in Horrors”: Understanding Colonialist Emotionality and British Responses to Female Circumcision in Northern Sudan No link available
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Sex, Bondage, and the Market: The Emergence of Prostitution in Northern Sudan, 1750-1950 No link available
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Khartoum at Night: Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan No link available
Gender and Religion
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Keeping the faith : travels with Sudanese women No link available
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One foot in Heaven : narratives on gender and Islam in Darfur, West-Sudan No link available
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Gender, culture, and capitalism: women and the remaking of Islamic “tradition” in a Sudanese village No link available
Gender and Daily Life
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Attitudes of urban Sudanese men toward family planning No link available
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Al-Rujūlah: Male and Masculinities in Modern Sudanese Narrative Discourse No link available
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Doing fatherhood in the Middle Nile. Fatherhood, Masculinity and Change in Rural Northern Sudan No link available
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The Sudanese Woman No link available
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Embodying honor: fertility, foreignness, and regeneration in eastern Sudan No link available
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Sisters Under the Sun: The Story of Sudanese Women No link available
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Women food sellers in Khartoum, Sudan: A feminist perspective No link available
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Sit Alshai - Tea Lady; Events Taking Place in El Meshtal Street No link available
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Social environment and daily routine of Sudanese women : a case study of urban middle class housewives No link available
article NEGOTIATING SPACE: Sudanese women's access to vocational education & employment
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Writing from Inside Out: Accounts of Sudanese Women Working In the Media No link available
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Making a living in rural Sudan : production of women, labour migration of men, and policies for peasants' needs No link available
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Ethnicity, women's employment, and fertility: A case study of the Gezira area in central Sudan No link available
article Sudanese Women in Media: The Majority with a Minor Voice
Gender and Nation-State Politics
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The House That Matriarchy Built: The Sudanese Women's Union No link available
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Sawt al-Mara: A Women's Voice in Public No link available
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The Women's Movement in Sudan from Nationalism to Transnationalism: Prospects for a Solidarity Movement No link available
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Charting new directions: reflections on women's political activism in Sudan No link available
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New spaces and old frontiers: women, social space, and Islamization in Sudan No link available
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Gender politics in Sudan : Islamism, socialism, and the state No link available
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The rise of Islam and women of the National Islamic Front in Sudan No link available
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Local Politics in the Time of Turabi's Revolution: Gender, Class and Ethnicity in Western Sudan No link available
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'In my father's house' - Gender, Islam and the construction of a gendered public sphere in Darfur, Sudan No link available
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The Gender Question in Globalization: Changing Perspectives and Practices (Chapter: “On globalization, gender and the nation-state: Muslim masculinity and the urban middle class family in Islamist Sudan”) No link available
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Opposition Party and Women’s Political Participation in Northern Sudan : A Case Study of the Umma Party No link available
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Gender, race, and Sudan's exile politics : do we all belong to this country? No link available
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Sudanese government policies and the roles and status of Nuba women No link available
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Gendered citizenship in Sudan: competing debates on family laws among northern and southern elites in Khartoum No link available
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A home for obedience: Masculinity in personal status for Muslims law No link available
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Feminist interlegalities and gender justice in Sudan: The debate on CEDAW and Islam No link available
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Sudan after Al-Turabi: Understanding the Gendered Legacy of Islamism in Sudan and Beyond No link available
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Patriarchy, Politics and Women's Activism in Post-Revolution Sudan No link available
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Sudanese Women's Groups on Facebook and #Civil_Disobedience: Nairat or Thairat? (Radiant or Revolutionary? No link available
article 30 Sudanese Women You Should Know
article 20 Young Sudanese Women You Should Know About
article Women In Sudan: where we were and where we are now
article 14 Women (and A Man) Who Fought for Women’s Rights and Education in Sudan
Gender and Violence
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When rape becomes politics: Negotiating Islamic law reform in Sudan No link available
article Sudan, Darfur--rape as a weapon of war : sexual violence and its consequences (Amnesty International report)
article Gender-Based Violence Against Men and Boys in Darfur: The Gender-Genocide Nexus
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The Identity, Agency and Political Influence of al-Hakkamat: Baggara Women Poets in Armed Conflict in Darfur, Sudan No link available
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The Darfur war: Masculinity and the construction of a Sudanese national identity No link available
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Pathways to Survival: Education, Soldiering, and Masculinity in Civil War Sudan (1955-2005) No link available
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Networks of Knowledge Production in Sudan: Identities, Mobilities, and Technologies (Chapter: "Threatened Masculinity in Sudan") No link available
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The women's movement, displaced women, and rural women in Sudan No link available
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Rights in a Failed State: Internally Displaced Women in Sudan and Their Lawyers No link available
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The movement against clitoridectomy and infibulation in Sudan: Public health policy and the women's movement No link available
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A study of domestic violence among women attending a medical centre in Sudan No link available
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The struggle for recognition by people living with HIV/AIDS in Sudan No link available
article Women-Led Self Protection in Sudan
article Violence against women at Sudan’s universities has been tolerated for far too long
article FGM: The Elephant in the Room
Life Cycle Customs in Sudan
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Birth, Marriage, Death and Initiation Customs and Beliefs in the Central Sudan No link available
article THE CHANGING CUSTOMS OF THE RIVERAIN SUDAN (about birth and marriage rituals in central northern Sudan)
Childhood
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Child-Rearing Practices in the Sudan: Implications for Parent Education No link available
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Harmonization of Laws and Gender and Children’s Rights in Sudan  No link available
article Ending physical and humiliating punishment against children: Sudan
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Children and the environment: work, play and learning in rural Sudan No link available
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Growing up Global: Economic Restructuring and Children’s Everyday Lives No link available
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Ways to Survive: Child Labor among Internally Displaced Children in Khartoum-Sudan No link available
film Aljazeera Film: The Orphans of Mygoma
article Be My Family: The Case For Adoption In Sudan
LGBT+ Issues (contemporary articles + films in chronological order of publication)
article Blog: Black Gay Arab
article Gay Africans and Arabs come out online
article Sudan Radio Project: A Conversation with a Gay Man in Khartoum
article Youtube Channel: Gratitude to Life
article Freedom Sudan (on Web Archive)
article LGBTI rights in Sudan: history and analysis
article Quietly, Sudan’s underground gay movement grows online
article New magazine and hope for LGBT people in Sudan
article Rainbow Sudan: what has changed from now till then
article LGBT rights in Sudan: someone fights for the rainbow
article Rainbow Sudan: When opinion article on homosexuality makes headline news in Sudan
article SUDAN: Struggles of a young movement.
article Youtube: Queer Voices From Sudan … What Is it Like To Be Queer in Khartoum?
article LGBT Voices From Sudan
article Love Beyond Borders
article LGBTQ+ Coming Out of Sudan
article The Sudanese Revolution: A fight for LGBTQI+ Rights?
article احتجاجاً على حفل "زواج مثلي"... مقتل رجل رجماً وحرق محال في السودان
article Queering Space: a Working Draft
article Report: Denial of freedom of LGBTQ+ artistic expression in Sudan
film Film: The Art of Sin
Immigrants, Refugees, and Diaspora
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Diaspora outside Sudan:
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Satti Majid: A Sudanese Founder of American Islam No link available
film Documentary (subtitled in English): Satti Majid, Shaykh of Islam in America
film Documentary: Malcom X and the Sudanese
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Duse Mohamed Ali and the Development of Pan-Africanism 1866-1945 No link available
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Wanderings: Sudanese migrants and exiles in North America No link available
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Black immigrants in North America : essays on race, immigration, identity, language, hip-hop, pedagogy, and the politics of becoming Black. No link available
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From Sudan to 'Sijui' and All Black Lives In-Be-Tween No link available
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"That You May Know One Another": Examining Race Relations in One U.S City's Islamic Community No link available
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Sudanese women in the United States : the double problem of gender and culture No link available
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Learning in the company of women: the intersection of race, gender, and religion in the educational and career experience of immigrant professional Sudanese women in the United States No link available
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Sudan & Sudanese: A Bibliography of American and Canadian Dissertations No link available
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Canada in Sudan, Sudan in Canada : immigration, conflict, and reconstruction No link available
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Fatherhood in the Canadian context: Perceptions and experiences of Sudanese refugee men No link available
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Alternative Performativity of Muslimness: The Intersection of Race, Gender, Religion, and Migration No link available
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Gender and peacebuilding: The role of Sudanese diaspora women in Sudan's post-conflict reconstruction No link available
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Impacts of male outmigration on women: a case study of Kutum/Northern Darfur/Sudan. No link available
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A Virtual Ethnographic Study of Online Communication and Democratic Behavior in the Sudan's Diaspora No link available
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'Brothers' or others? : propriety and gender for Muslim Arab Sudanese in Egypt No link available
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The Experience of Protest : Masculinity and Agency Among Sudanese Refugees in Cairo No link available
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Sudanese Muslims in Uganda - The Sudanese Muslim Factor in Uganda No link available
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Identity, citizenship and ‘home’ through the transnational perspective(s) of second generation Sudanese migrants in Qatar No link available
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Perceptions of the Sudanese Professional Working in Saudi Arabia on Migration and Economic Development of the Sudan No link available
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Migration from North Africa and the Middle East: Skilled Migrants (Chapter: The Arab Spring and the Sudan Brain Drain) No link available
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Contextualizing socio-legal problems of Sudanese youths in Malaysia: a case study No link available
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Educational concerns of Arabic speaking migrants from Sudan and Iraq to Melbourne: Expectations on migrant parents in Australia No link available
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Between Resistance and Expansion: Explorations of Local Vitality in Africa (Chapter: A Sudanese Snack Bar in Berlin) No link available
Migration within Sudan:
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The political economy of labour migration in the Sudan : a comparative case study of migrant workers in an urban situation No link available
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Language maintenance and shift in Sudan: The case of migrant ethnic groups in Khartoum No link available
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Globalization and change in fifteen cultures (Chapter: "From Local "Tribe" to Transnational Arab Society: The "New" Rashaayda Bedouin of Sudan.") No link available
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Weaving the social networks of women migrants in Sudan the case of Gezira No link available
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THE IMPACT OF LABOUR MIGRATION ON THE AMARAR IN PORT SUDAN No link available
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Self-settled refugees and the socio-economic impact of their presence on Kassala, Eastern Sudan No link available
Refugees and IDPs within Sudan:
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Refugee policy in Sudan, 1967-1984 No link available
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The state, the crisis of state institutions, and refugee migration in the Horn of Africa : the cases of Ethiopia, Sudan, and Somalia No link available
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Return of the South Sudanese to Khartoum-(Re) Claiming Their Right to the City as Urban Refugees No link available
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The Sudan : from subsistence to wage labor : refugee settlements in the central and eastern regions No link available
article The Socio-economic Conditions of Darfur Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) in El-Sababi Area, Khartoum
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Whose Rights Count? National and International Responses to the Rights of IDPs in the Sudan No link available
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War and Drought in Sudan: Essays on Population Displacement No link available
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The historical basis of Sudan's refugee problem, 1900-present: A critical reading into the power structure, state, and society in the Sudan No link available
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The agonies of displacement: Ethiopian women refugees in Khartoum, Sudan No link available
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Eritrean women refugees in Khartoum, Sudan, 1970–1990 No link available
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Resistance, displacement, and identity: The case of Eritrean refugees in Sudan No link available
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Sudanese Diasporas outside Sudan: No link available
contemporary Bittersweet euphoria of Sudan’s exiles (about Sudanese in South Africa)
contemporary Witnessing regime change in Sudan as a refugee in exile (Sudanese refugees in Israel)
contemporary Sudanese Doctors Union of Ireland (professional org)
contemporary ‘I hadn’t been in real school until I came to Ireland. It’s nice being normal’ (Sudanese refugee in Ireland)
contemporary Swedish Sudanese Association (professional org)
contemporary Sudan in Berlin (on Sudanese food in Germany)
contemporary Some Refugees Are More Equal Than Others: Sudanese Find Little Solace in Germany
contemporary One year after deportations, Sudanese left in Niger see no way out
contemporary Eritrean, Guinean and Sudanese refugees and migrants in Italy
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Egypt: No link available
contemporary Being Black in Egypt (discusses anti-blackness as experienced by Sudanese migrants)
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On the Fringe of the of the Sudanese Refugees’ Tragedy (Sudanese refugees in Egypt) No link available
contemporary Sudan's Refugees in Egypt: The Struggle to Cope
contemporary “They Call Us Black and Filthy”: Sudanese Refugees in Egypt, Trapped Between Racism and Violence
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US, Britain, and Canada: No link available
contemporary Sudan – Malcolm X
contemporary Azza Altiraifi: “Imancipation as a Sudanese American”. (link broken as of 11/29/18)
contemporary Mona Hagmagid: “I have always been envious of the Sudanese girls who visit Sudan every year” and “Speechless”.
contemporary Wad Khalafallah: “Mutual Exclusivity in Identity Constructs: Who the F*** Are You?”
contemporary Ielaf Khalil: “MY SUDANESE EXPERIENCE: Sudan, To Me”.
contemporary Hana Baba: “This Sudanese American Life”.
contemporary Ihsaan Tahir: "To the Father Who Tried"
contemporary Safia Elhillo: “What’s It Like Being Sudanese in America?”
contemporary Leena Habiballa: “Too Black to Be Arab, Too Arab to Be Black”.
contemporary Nesrine Malik: “A Paler Shade of Black”.
contemporary Mariam Babikir: “Ethnicity, Skin, and Language: My Sudanese Identity”.
contemporary Aya Elmileik: “I AM Sudanese (Pretty Simple)”.
contemporary Rushaa Hamid: “How to be (sort of) Sudanese”.
contemporary Khaedega Mohammed: “Boxes”.
contemporary Oddisee (Amir Mohamed): “Belong to the World”.
contemporary Mustafa Ahmed: "Mustafa’s Meditative Songs of Mourning"
contemporary Muhammad Modibbo Sharif: "Ya Oummi"
contemporary “The Sudan Project: Being Sudanese American in Iowa”.
contemporary “Why some Muslims don’t want Ahmed Mohamed’s blackness to be ignored”
contemporary 'At least we are treated as humans': Syrians in Sudan
contemporary The forgotten role of Sudan in the Palestinian diaspora: A case study of the Kattan family, by Holly Stepp
contemporary Losing Armenia in the Capital of Sudan
contemporary Ancient Nubia, Pasgianos, and the Legacy of Greek-Sudanese
contemporary The Greek community in Sudan (19th-21st century)
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On Greeks and Greek culture in Sudan according to Ibn Ḍayfallāh’s Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt fī khuṣūṣ al-awliyāʾ wa-l-Ṣāliḥīn wa-l- ʽUlamāʾ wa-l-shuʽarāʾ fī l-Sūdān No link available
contemporary Sudan: A Home Away From Home (Indian diaspora in Sudan)
contemporary Indians in Sudan: Of potluck and cultural bonding
contemporary With Ethiopia’s border now open, why are Eritreans still fleeing to Sudan?
contemporary Stranded 'Birds of Passage'? Eritean and Ethiopian Refugees in Khartoum
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Two articles on international refugee politics as related to entering and leaving Sudan: No link available
contemporary Africa’s crossroads: Corrupt smugglers profit from refugees in Sudan
contemporary Inside the EU’s flawed $200 million migration deal with Sudan
contemporary
Diaspora Organizations: No link available
contemporary Sudanese American Public Affairs Association, Sudan Knowledge, Sudanese-Canadian Association of Ottawa, Sudan Diaspora Association, Sudanese American Women Organization, Moving Forward Sudan,
contemporary Nuba Survival Foundation, Darfur Women Action Group,
Historical Race and Slavery
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Slavery in the Sudan : history, documents, and commentary No link available
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Soldiers, Traders, and Slaves: State Formation and Economic Transformation in the Greater Nile Valley, 1700-1885 No link available
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Race and slavery in the Middle East : histories of trans-Saharan Africans in nineteenth-century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean No link available
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Tell this in my memory : stories of enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire No link available
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Slavery, slave trade, and abolition attempts in Egypt and the Sudan, 1820-1882 No link available
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The British, the slave trade, and slavery in the Sudan, 1820-1881. No link available
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Owing and owning: Zubayr Pasha, slavery, and empire in nineteenth-century Sudan No link available
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Domestic slavery in nineteenth century and early twentieth century northern Sudan No link available
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Slaves of Fortune: Sudanese Soldiers and the River War, 1896-1898. No link available
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Slaves into workers : emancipation and labor in Colonial Sudan No link available
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Spirits and slaves in central Sudan : the red wind of Sennar No link available
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Changing Masters: spirit possession and identity construction among slave descendants and other subordinates in the Sudan No link available
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Race and identity in the Nile Valley : ancient and modern perspectives No link available
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White Nile, black blood : war, leadership, and ethnicity from Khartoum to Kampala No link available
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Sudan's Civil War: Slavery, Race, and Formational Identities No link available
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Sudan: race, religion and violence No link available
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The weapon of race and the power of shame: Speaking out against the violence in Sudan No link available
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Modern slavery in African land : situations of trafficking women from Ethiopia to Sudan No link available
book Human smuggling and trafficking in Eastern Sudan
book Refugees and the Rashaida: human smuggling and trafficking from Eritrea to Sudan and Egypt
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Colorism in Context: How Young African American and Sudanese Women Experience Their Skin Color No link available
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Slavery in the Sudan in History No link available
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Military Slavery in the Sudan during the Turkiyya, 1820–1885 No link available
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Slavery, land tenure and social class in the northern Turkish Sudan No link available
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Ideological and practical considerations regarding slavery in the Mahdist state and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan: 1881-1918 No link available
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Economic and political aspects of the slave trade in Ethiopia and the Sudan in the second half of the nineteenth century No link available
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Slavery and the slave trade in Dār Fūr No link available
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The Uses of Slaves in Precolonial Western Dar Fur: The Case of Das Masalit, 1870-1905 No link available
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Zainab's Story: Slavery, Women And Community In Colonial Sudan No link available
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The business of slavery in the central Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1910-1930 No link available
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Spies, secrets, and a story waiting to be (re) told: memories of the 1924 revolution and the racialization of Sudanese history No link available
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Is It Because My Face Is Black? No link available
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Sudanese trade in black ivory: Opening old wounds No link available
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GREEN IS THE COLOR OF THE MASTERS : The Legacy of Slavery and the Crisis of National Identity in Modern Sudan No link available
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Historicizing Race, Ethnicity, and the Crisis of Citizenship in Sudan and South Sudan No link available
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Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity No link available
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Slave: My True Story No link available
contemporary Eve Troutt Powell: African Slaves in Islamic Lands
contemporary Coming to terms with Sudan’s legacy of slavery
contemporary Darfur and the Politics of Race: Understanding the Save Darfur Coalition
contemporary The Blacker the Berry or the Whiter the Gongolez?
contemporary Too Black to be Arab, too Arab to be Black
contemporary Exploring Blackness and Sudanese Identities
contemporary A Paler Shade of Black
contemporary Al-3irig dasas
"Ethnicities", Groups, and Lineages
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“Tribal” Elite: A Base for Social Stratification in the Sudan (chapter in Toward a Marxist Anthropology: Problems and Perspectives, critiques how the idea of “tribe” was used in anthropology of Sudan) No link available
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Essays in Sudan Ethnography, presented to Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard No link available
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The Arabs and the Sudan: From the Seventh to the Early Sixteenth Century. No link available
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A history of the Arabs in the Sudan and some account of the people who preceded them and of the tribes inhabiting Dárfûr. No link available
book Ethnic Identity in Darfur (Contains a good critique of the above earlier work)
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Arab identity and ideology in Sudan: The politics of language, ethnicity, and race No link available
book The Lahawiyin: Identity and History in a Sudanese Arab Tribe.
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The Days of Joy: A structuralist analysis of weddings among the Rashaayda Arabs of Sudan No link available
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The Manasir of Northern Sudan : land and people : a riverain society and resource scarcity No link available
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The Shaiqiya: the Cultural and Social Change of a Northern Sudanese Riverain People No link available
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Local Strangers: The Nile Valley Gypsies in the Ethnic Mosaic of Sudan (chapter in Customary Strangers: New Perspectives on Peripatetic Peoples in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia) No link available
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The Kababish Arabs: Power, Authority and Consent in a Nomadic Tribe. No link available
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Arabs and Nubians in New Halfa : a study of settlement and irrigation No link available
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Tenants and Nomads in Eastern Sudan: A Study of Economic Adaptations in the New Halfa Scheme No link available
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Nubian Encounters: The Story of the Nubian Ethnological Survey 1961-1964 No link available
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The Changing Ethnic Identity of Nubians in an Urban Milieu: Khartoum, Sudan No link available
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A genealogical and historical study of the Mahas of the" Three Towns," Sudan No link available
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The Rashāyida Arabs vs. the State: The Impact of European Colonialism on a Small-Scale Society in Sudan and Eritrea No link available
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Pastoral nomadism and colonial mythology the Beja of the Sudan, c. 1750-1881 No link available
book Political Transformation in Traditional Systems: The Case of the Beja Congress in Eastern Sudan
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Theories of sickness and misfortune among the Hadandowa Beja of the Sudan : narratives as points of entry into Beja cultural knowledge No link available
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Survival on meagre resources : Hadendowa pastoralism in the Red Sea Hills No link available
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Lokoya of Sudan: culture and ethnic government No link available
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National integration and local integrity: the Miri of the Nuba Mountains in the Sudan No link available
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From the mountains to the plains: the integration of the Lafofa Nuba into Sudanese society No link available
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A premise for precolonial Nuba history No link available
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Tracing golden past: Historical narratives about Shaybun and Shawabna in the Nuba Mountains, Sudan No link available
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Hausa and Fulani settlement and the development of capitalism in Sudan : with special reference to Maiurno, Blue Nile province No link available
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The West African (Fallata) Communities in Gedaref State : Process of settlement and local integration No link available
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Islam, Colonialism and Migration:A Study of West African Communities in Sudan 1804-1950 No link available
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Bushara Suleiman Nour and the Zaghawa aptitude for trade, Darfur, Sudan No link available
book The Pastoral Fulbe in the Funj region: A study of the Interaction of State and Society
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Notes on the Origin of Baggara Arab Culture With Special Reference to the Shuwa No link available
book The Dynamics of Ethnic Identification and Ethnic Group Relations Among the People of Dor Northern Darfur Sudan
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The second-class citizens of Sudan: A study of southern Sudanese in Khartoum No link available
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Africans of Two Worlds: The Dinka in Afro-Arab Sudan. No link available
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Nuer dilemmas: coping with money, war, and the state No link available
Cities and Places
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Port Sudan: the evolution of a colonial city No link available
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Suakin and Massawa under Egyptian rule, 1865-1885 No link available
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Prelude to the Mahdiyya : peasants and traders in the Shendi region, 1821-1885 No link available
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An analysis of cultural and social heterogeneity of a Sudanese town: El Obeid No link available
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City of steel and fire : a social history of Atbara, Sudan's railway town, 1906-1984. No link available
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Holy city on the Nile : Omdurman during the Mahdiyya, 1885-1898 No link available
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The images of Omdurman: The symbolic role of an African city during the period of colonialism from the perspective of archival photographs No link available
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Old Omdurman and national integration: The socio-historical roots of social exclusion No link available
book A Study of Dynamics of Omdurman Market (Souk Omdurman)
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Khartoum : past, present and the prospects for the future No link available
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Khartoum perspectives : a collection of lectures given at the Sudan Cultural Centre, Khartoum, in the 1940s and 1950s No link available
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Negotiating Urban Citizenship: The Urban Poor, Brokers and the State in Mexico City and Khartoum No link available
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Buurri al Lamaab, a suburban village in the Sudan. No link available
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Identity and lifestyle construction in multi-ethnic shantytowns : a case study of Al-Baraka community in Khartoum, Sudan No link available
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Transforming displaced women in Sudan : politics and the body in a squatter settlement No link available
book Tamboul: A Sudanese Urban Community In The Making
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The western Bahr al-Ghazal under British rule, 1898-1956 No link available
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Land, ethnicity and political legitimacy in Eastern Sudan : Kassala & Gedaref States No link available
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People on the edge in the Horn : displacement, land use & the environment in the Gedaref Region, Sudan No link available
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Kordafan invaded : peripherial incorporation and social transformation in Islamic Africa No link available
book Regional Disparity In National Development Of Sudan And Its Impact On Nation-Building With Reference To The Region Of The Nuba Mountains
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Nationalism and peasant politics in the Nuba Mountains region of Sudan, 1924-1966 No link available
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Recovering from conflict: The case of Dinder and other national parks in Sudan No link available
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Cultural Tourism: Unearthing Sudan's Hidden Gems No link available
contemporary Tourist in my own country
contemporary Riding the Nile train: could lifting US sanctions get Sudan’s railway on track?
Environment, Natural Resources, and Land Politics
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Hydropolitics
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Ethiopia, the Sudan, and Egypt: The Nile River Dispute No link available
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Dividing the Nile: Egypt’s Economic Nationalists in the Sudan 1918–56 No link available
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Environmental Scarcity, Hydropolitics and the Nile: Population concentration, water scarcity and the changing domestic and foreign politics of the Sudan No link available
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Water, civilisation and power in Sudan : the political economy of military-Islamist state building No link available
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Climate change, conflict and development in Sudan: global neo-Malthusian narratives and local power struggles. No link available
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Charity Drops. Water Provision and the Politics of the Zakat Chamber in Khartoum, Sudan No link available
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Political waters : governmental water management and neoliberal reforms in Khartoum/Sudan No link available
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Land and Hydropolitics in the Nile River Basin: Challenges and new investments No link available
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Irrigation water management: A performance study of the Rahad scheme in Sudan, 1977-1996. No link available
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A “justice” reading of the trans-national struggle of the people displaced by the Merowe Dam No link available
Agriculture and Land
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The Purposes of Land Settlement in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1898–1914: Drawing Paths through the Weeds. No link available
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Managing pastoral adaptations in the Red Sea Hills of the Sudan : challenges and dilemmas No link available
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Shifting from extensive to intensive agricultural systems: A case study in the Sudan No link available
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Agricultural Change, Land and Violence: An Examination of the Region of Darfur, Sudan No link available
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The Story of Land Grabbing in North Sudan and Ghana No link available
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Land Grab and Institutional Legacy of Colonialism: The Case of Sudan No link available
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Pastoral Land Rights and Protracted Conflict in Eastern Sudan No link available
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The denied land rights of the indigenous peoples and their endangered livelihood and survival: the case of the Nuba of the Sudan No link available
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Disrupting Territories: Land, Commodification & Conflict in Sudan No link available
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People on the edge in the Horn: displacement, land use & the environment in the Gedaref region, Sudan. No link available
Famine Politics
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Feasting on Famines: Food Insecurity and the Making of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1883-1956 No link available
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Starvation and the state : famine, slavery, and power in Sudan, 1883-1956 No link available
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The politics of famine in Sudan: The case of Dar Hamid and Dar Hamar No link available
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Famine that Kills: Darfur, 1984-1985 No link available
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Famine in the Sudan: causes, preparedness and response: a political, social and economic analysis of the 1998 Bahr el Ghazal No link available
article Famine in Sudan : the human rights causes. (Human Rights Watch report from 1999)
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Food Aid in Sudan: A History of Power, Politics and Profit No link available
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Requiem for the Sudan: war, drought, and disaster relief on the Nile No link available
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Refugees and the creation of famine: the case of Dar Masalit, Sudan No link available
Environment and Conservation
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State intervention and the environment in Sudan, 1889-1989 : the demise of communal resource management No link available
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Marine and coastal environment conservation in Sudan: The role of marine protected areas No link available
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Civil war in Sudan: the impact of ecological degradation No link available
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Sustainable livelihood approach for assessing community resilience to climate change: case studies from Sudan No link available
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National parks in Sudan: Dinder National Park, Sanganeb Marine National Park, Suakin Archipelago National Park, Radom National Park No link available
Natural Resources and Foreign Investment
article Sudan, Oil, and Human Rights (Human Rights Watch Report from 2003)
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Sudan: Identity and conflict over natural resources No link available
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The new kings of crude : China, India, and the global struggle for oil in Sudan and South Sudan No link available
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Sudan Looks East: China, India and the Politics of Asian Alternatives No link available
contemporary Sudanese scientist battles climate change in Africa
contemporary Behind Sudan Animal Rescue Centre – Sudan’s First Animal Shelter
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Films: No link available
contemporary Struggle Over the Nile
contemporary Seeds of Inspiration: Sudan's First Flying Robot Farmer
contemporary Wheat Trap
Industry, Infrastructure, and Science
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book Sudan Gum A History of its Production and Trade up to 1982
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“Negro Canaan”: Cotton, Tuskegee, and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. No link available
book Waste Management in Sudan: A case of Waste Characterization in Khartoum State
book Revitalization of Greater Khartoum Urban Transportation System
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Water resources development and management in the Republic of the Sudan No link available
contemporary Sudan gets creative with waste at Khartoum's first recycling festival
contemporary Piles of Problems: Waste in Khartoum
contemporary Sudan’s transport system a key cog in economic development
contemporary
This section is under construction - my interest here is in histories of physical trade/production in Sudan (e.g. histories of soap manufacture), infrastructure politics (e.g. politics of waste removal), and histories of scientific research in Sudan. No link available
Medicine, Disability, and Mental Health
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Academic books, theses, and articles No link available
article Sudanese traditional medicine
article Pain and consciousness (in northern Sudan)
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Frontiers of medicine in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1899-1940 No link available
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Laboratory on the Nile: a history of the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories No link available
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Medical education in the Sudan: its strengths and weaknesses No link available
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Medical research in the Sudan since 1903 No link available
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An outline of the history of Medical Research Institutes in the Sudan No link available
article The History and Development of Sudan Health Services
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Medical services in Sudan: a historical perspective No link available
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Medical education in Sudan: emerging issues and acute needs No link available
article Challenges to implementation of the WHO Global Code of Practice on International Recruitment of Health Personnel: The case of Sudan
article SUDAN COUNTRY PROFILE - March 2004 - Employment of People with Disabilities: The Impact of Legislation (East Africa)
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Socioeconomic and disability consequences of injuries in the Sudan: a community-based survey in Khartoum State No link available
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Challenges of practicing Learning Disability Psychiatry in Sudan No link available
article Cheshire Home Khartoum
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Epidemiology of mental disorders in young adults of a newly urbanised area in Khartoum, Sudan No link available
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The mental health of internally displaced persons: an epidemiological study of adults in two settlements in Central Sudan No link available
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Mental health and resilience status of Eritrean unaccompanied refugee minors in Sudan No link available
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The traditional belief system in relation to mental health and psychiatric services in Sudan No link available
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The characteristics of people with mental illness who are under treatment in traditional healer centres in Sudan No link available
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Barriers to mental health service utilisation in Sudan-perspectives of carers and psychiatrists No link available
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Change in mental health stigma after a brief intervention among internally displaced persons in Central Sudan No link available
article Sudan's mental health service: challenges and future horizons
contemporary Sudan's hospitals: 'Ravaged by privatisation'
contemporary Failing hospitals and private-public fiefdoms: what healthcare reveals about Sudan
contemporary Sudan's threatened health and humanitarian crisis
contemporary Healthcare crisis in Sudan
contemporary Sudan health system hit by doctors’ tiff with powers, lack of medical gear
contemporary Coronavirus exposes Sudan's broken health care system
contemporary Scholars Bow to Wisdom of Traditional Herbs Specialist
contemporary Women with disabilities, united for their rights in Sudan
contemporary For Students With Disabilities, the Pandemic Adds Another Barrier
contemporary Half a million Sudanese blind
contemporary Feeling Japan: A Blind Sudanese Man Shares His Experiences
contemporary Photo Series: Sudanese Rehabilitation Center for the Blind
contemporary Sudan’s Society Of The Deaf, Five Decades Of Hard Work
contemporary Sudanese group for helping children suffering from hearing disability
contemporary Maha's Story: Disability Activist, Sudan.
film Video: Language for Inclusion - Developing a Unified Sudanese Sign Language
contemporary Sudan: Overcoming the odds, becoming a champion of all
contemporary Down Syndrome Center Kids Give More Than They Take
contemporary Sudan's first Down syndrome center opens in capital
contemporary My Journey with ADHD
contemporary Sudan’s Great Depression: mental illness dangerously ignored by country’s health services
contemporary Mental Health Clinics in Sudan
contemporary The Women Behind E-therapy Sudan
contemporary PTSD Concerns After Sudan Protests
Economics, Class, and Labor
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Slaves into workers: emancipation and labor in Colonial Sudan No link available
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From Concessionaire to Shaykh: The Shaping of Colonial Economic Policy in Sudan, 1898-1930 No link available
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Economic development, labour policy, and trade unions in the sudan, 1898-1958 No link available
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Class and power in Sudan : the dynamics of Sudanese politics, 1898-1985 No link available
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Economic imperialism and the political economy of Sudan: The case of the Sudan Plantations Syndicate, 1899-1956 No link available
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Business, state and economy: cotton and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1919-1939 No link available
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Dividing the Nile: Egypt’s Economic Nationalists in the Sudan 1918–56 No link available
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The evolution and transformation of the Sudanese economy up to 1950 No link available
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Transforming Sudan: Decolonization, Economic Development, and State Formation No link available
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Sudan: state, capital and transformation No link available
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The role of international development agencies in Africa: the case of Sudan. No link available
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The Legal Regime of Foreign Private Investment in Sudan and Saudi Arabia No link available
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Food Aid in Sudan: A History of Power, Politics and Profit No link available
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The Sudan Economy in Disarray: Essays on the IMF Crisis No link available
book Taxation, Local Government and Social Control in Sudan and South Sudan, 1899-1956.
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Deleted articles on the precolonial + colonial periods, Privatization, State Finances, and Poverty No link available
contemporary IMF’s Involvement Fuels Sudan’s Continued Unrest
contemporary Sudan’s Self-Inflicted Economic Meltdown: With a Corrupt Economy in Crisis, the Bashir Regime Scrambles to Consolidate Power
Nation-State Politics and Identity in Sudan
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General Readings No link available
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New Sudan in the making? : essays on a nation in painful search of itself No link available
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Customary law in the modern world : the crossfire of Sudan's war of identities No link available
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Ethnicity, conflict and national integration in the Sudan No link available
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Beyond Khartoum: A History of Subnational Government in Sudan No link available
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Sudan at the Brink: Self-Determination and National Unity No link available
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Sudan: State and Society in Crisis No link available
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To Be or Not To Be: Sudan at Crossroads a Pan African Perspective No link available
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A Civil Society Deferred: The Tertiary Grip of Violence in the Sudan No link available
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Colonialism No link available
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A different shade of colonialism : Egypt, Great Britain, and the mastery of the Sudan No link available
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Living with Colonialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan No link available
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Law's Fragile State: Colonial, Authoritarian, and Humanitarian Legacies in Sudan No link available
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Transforming Sudan: Decolonization, Economic Development, and State Formation No link available
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Imperialism and Nationalism in the Sudan: A Study in Constitutional and Political Development, 1899-1956 No link available
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Religion No link available
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Islam, nationalism and communism in a traditional society : the case of Sudan No link available
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Islam in Sudan : identity, citizenship and conflict No link available
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Islam, sectarianism, and politics in Sudan since the Mahdiyya No link available
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The rise of the Islamic movement in Sudan (1945-1989) No link available
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In the shadow of salvation: Sufis, Salafis and the project of late Islamism in contemporary Sudan No link available
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For love of the Prophet : an ethnography of Sudan's Islamic state No link available
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Modern Muslims : a Sudan memoir No link available
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Islam’s Perfect Stranger: The Life of Mahmud Mohamed Taha No link available
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In whose image? Political Islam and urban practices in Sudan No link available
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Local Politics in the Time of Turabi's Revolution: Gender, Class and Ethnicity in Western Sudan No link available
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The Politicization of Religious Identity in Sudan, with Special Reference to Oral Histories of the Sudanese Diaspora in America. No link available
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Islam and Christianity in the Horn of Africa: Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan No link available
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Leftists, Unions, Civil Society, and Core-Periphery Critics No link available
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The Sudanese Communist Party: Ideology and Party Politics No link available
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The Sudanese labor movement: a study of labor unionism in a developing society No link available
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Non-governmental organizations and development in the Sudan: Relations with the state and institutional strengthening No link available
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John Garang's legacy to the peace process, the SPLM/A & the south No link available
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Seeds of Secession No link available
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Law and Judiciary No link available
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Manichaean Delirium: Decolonizing the Judiciary and Islamic Renewal in the Sudan, 1898-1985 No link available
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The Codification of Islamic Criminal Law in the Sudan: Penal Codes and Supreme Court Case Law Under Numayri and al-Bashir No link available
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Anthropology of Law in Muslim Sudan: Land, Courts and the Plurality of Practices No link available
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The Rule of Law and Authoritarian Rule: Legal Politics in Sudan No link available
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Who rules the law? How government, civil society, and aid agencies manipulate law in Sudan No link available
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Lawyers and the Disintegration of the Legal Complex in Sudan No link available
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The Legal Regime of Foreign Private Investment in Sudan and Saudi Arabia No link available
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Armed Forces, Policing, and Incarceration No link available
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The frailties of prisons in post-colonial Sudan: from rehabilitation to retribution, 1956–1989 No link available
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Torture in an Historical Context: Notes from Sudan (Chapter in: Moore A., Swanson E. (eds) Witnessing Torture: Perspectives of Torture Survivors and Human Rights Workers.) No link available
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The police of the Sudan: Challenges of centralisation and militarisation No link available
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Under the shadow of the regime: the contradictions of policing in Sudan, c1924-1989 No link available
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From military to tribal police: policing the Upper Nile Province of the Sudan No link available
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'What the Men are Crying Out for is Leadership': The Khartoum Police Strike of 1951 and the Battle for Administrative Control No link available
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'Nests of criminals': policing in the peri-urban regions of Northern Sudan, 1964–1989 No link available
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The Ambiguous Role of the Popular, Society and Public Order Police in Sudan, 1983–2011 No link available
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Policing beyond the domestic sphere: The case of South African police in Darfur, Sudan No link available
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British Colonial Military Recruitment Policy in the Southern Kordofan Region of Sudan, 1900–1945 No link available
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The Sudan: Military Economic Corporations No link available
contemporary The Sudan Armed Forces and Prospects of Change (1989-2016)
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When Neighbors Become Killers: From Murahaleen to Janjaweed in Darfur No link available
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Murahaleen Raids on the Dinka, 1985–89 No link available
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A Paramilitary Revolution: The Popular Defence Forces (1989-) No link available
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Sudan: Liberation movements, regional armies, ethnic militias & peace No link available
contemporary The Eastern Front and the Struggle against Marginalization
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Rebels, militias and governance in Sudan No link available
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The perverse manifestations of civil militias in Africa: Evidence from western Sudan No link available
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Military responses to mass killing: The African Union mission in Sudan No link available
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The Lord's Resistance Army in Sudan: A history and overview No link available
contemporary Why Do We Need to Build a New Sudanese National Identity?
contemporary A slice of life in a Sudanese prison
Modern Kingdoms, Governments, and Crises
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http://www.booksforunderstanding.org/sudan/list.html No link available
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General Modern History No link available
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A history of the Sudan : from the coming of Islam to the present day No link available
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The Politics of Two Sudans: The South and the North, 1821-1969 No link available
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Funj Kingdom of Sennar (1504-1821) No link available
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The Sudan of the three Niles: the Funj chronicle, 910-1288/1504-1871 No link available
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The Fung kingdom of Sennar: with a geographical account of the middle Nile region No link available
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The heroic age in Sinnār No link available
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Wad Dayf Allah as a historian: Analytical, literary and linguistic study of "Kitab at-Tabaqat" No link available
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Darfur Sultanate (1603-1874) No link available
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The Darfur Sultanate: A History No link available
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Dar Masalit (1870s-1920s) No link available
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Mahdist Faith and Sudanic Tradition: The History of the Masalit Sultanate No link available
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The Emergence of a Sudanic State: Dar Masalit, 1874-1905 No link available
article My memories of El-Geneina the Seat of the Dar Masalit Sultanate in the Darfur Province
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Khedival-Ottoman invasion and Colonial Sudan (1821-1881) No link available
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The Strategy, Responses and Legacy of the First Imperialist Era in the Sudan 1820–1885 No link available
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Egypt in the Sudan, 1820-1881. No link available
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History of the Ottoman Empire : some aspects of the Sudanese-Turkish relations No link available
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The nineteenth-century wars between the Manasir people of northern Sudan and the British colonialist invaders : a study based on historical artifacts, geographical sites, oral traditions, and documentary remnants No link available
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A Black Corps d'Élite: An Egyptian Sudanese Conscript Battalion with the French Army in Mexico, 1863–1867, and its Survivors in Subsequent African History. No link available
article Tripolitania Cyrenaica and Bilad as Sudan Trade Relations During the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
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Mahdi period (1881-1898) No link available
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The Mahdist State in the Sudan, 1881-1898: a study of its origins, development and overthrow No link available
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The formation of the Sudanese Mahdist state. Ritual, ceremony and symbols of authority: 1882–1898 No link available
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Sharīʻa and the Islamic state in 19th-Century Sudan : the Mahdī's legal methodology and doctrine No link available
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Jihads and Crusades in Sudan From 1881 to the Present No link available
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The life of the Sudanese Mahdi No link available
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Slaves of fortune: Sudanese soldiers and the River War, 1896-1898 No link available
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The Dervish Wars : Gordon and Kitchener in the Sudan 1880-1898 No link available
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Anglo-Egyptian Period (1898-1956) No link available
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Empire on the Nile: The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1898–1934 No link available
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Imperial Sudan: The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium 1934–1956 No link available
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The Sudan question; the dispute over the Anglo-Egyptian condominium, 1884-1951. No link available
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Sudan Under Wingate: Administration in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1899-1916) No link available
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An Islamic Alliance: Ali Dinar and the Sanusiyya, 1906-1916 No link available
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ʾAlī Dīnār : last Sultan of Darfur, 1898-1916 No link available
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Darfur. Colonial violence, Sultanic legacies and local politics, 1916-1956. No link available
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Lost nationalism : revolution, memory and anti-colonial resistance in Sudan No link available
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An Islamic Response to Colonial Rule: Collaboration in the Sudan, 1898-1919 No link available
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Starvation and the state : famine, slavery, and power in Sudan, 1883-1956 No link available
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Imperial diplomacy in the era of decolonization : the Sudan and Anglo-Egyptian relations, 1945-1956 No link available
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The rise of political parties in the Sudan, 1936-1946 No link available
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The emergence and development of the leftist movement in the Sudan during the 1930's and 1940’s No link available
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Independence (1956), Ibrahim Abbud era (1958-1964), Ismail al-Azhari era (1964-1969), and First Civil War (1955-1972) No link available
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General Ibrahim Abboud's Military Administration in the Sudan, 1958–1964: Implementation of the Programs of Islamization and Arabization in the Southern Sudan No link available
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Sudan’s “Southern Problem”: Race, Rhetoric and International Relations, 1961-1991 No link available
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Africa's Thirty Years War : Libya, Chad, and the Sudan, 1963-1993 No link available
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Sudan, civil war and terrorism, 1956-99 No link available
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Assassination in Khartoum No link available
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The first Sudanese civil war : Africans, Arabs, and Israelis in the Southern Sudan, 1955-1972 No link available
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The Student's Movement in the Sudan: 1940-1970 No link available
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Nimeiri era (1969-1985), Famine (1980s), 1985 Uprising, Sadiq Al Mahdi’s era as PM (1986-1989) No link available
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Sudan under Nimeiri No link available
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Nimeiri and the revolution of dis-may No link available
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The Sudanese bureaucratic elite under Numayri: An enquiry into a ruling class No link available
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The Libyan-Sudanese “Crisis” of 1981: Danger for Darfur and Dilemma for the United States No link available
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The Sharia in Sudan: Implementation and Repercussions, 1983-1989 No link available
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Religion, legality, and the state: 1983 Sudanese Penal Code No link available
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Famine that Kills: Darfur, 1984-1985 No link available
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Civil uprisings in modern Sudan : the 'Khartoum Springs' of 1964 and 1985 No link available
article The Dhein Massacre: Slavery in the Sudan (human rights report by Sudan Relief and Rehabilitation Association, on 1987 massacre)
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The Sudan floods of 1988 No link available
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The Sudan, 1985-9: The Fading Democracy No link available
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Bashir era (1989-2019) No link available
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Omar Al-Bashir and Africa's longest war No link available
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Rebel movements and proxy warfare: Uganda, Sudan and the Congo (1986–99) No link available
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Sudan in turmoil : Hasan al-Turabi and the Islamist state, 1989-2003 No link available
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Revolutionary Sudan: Hasan Al-Turabi and the Islamist State, 1989-2000 No link available
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Sudan and Egypt: The swing of the pendulum (1989–2001) No link available
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Battle for peace in Sudan : an analysis of the Abuja conferences, 1992-1993 No link available
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Sudan and the assassination attempt on President Mubarak in June 1995: a cornerstone in ideological reverse No link available
article Behind the Red Line: Political Repression in Sudan (Human Rights Watch Report 1996)
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Famine in Sudan, 1998 : the human rights causes. No link available
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Famine in the Sudan: causes, preparedness and response: a political, social and economic analysis of the 1998 Bahr el Ghazal No link available
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Ten years of peace making in Sudan : 1989-1999 : documents and facts No link available
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Renouncing the Rebels: Local and Regional Dimensions of Chad-Sudan Rapprochement No link available
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Multidimensional change in the Republic of Sudan (1989-2011) : reshaping livelihoods, conflicts, and identities No link available
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Second Civil War (1983-2005) No link available
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The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars: Peace or Truce No link available
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The Root Causes of Sudan’s Civil Wars: Old Wars & New Wars No link available
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Sudan, Civil War, and Terrorism, 1956-99 No link available
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Civil Wars and Revolution in the Sudan: Essays on the Sudan, Southern Sudan, and Darfur 1902-2004 No link available
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Waging Peace in Sudan: The Inside Story of the Negotiations that Ended Africa’s Longest Civil War No link available
article Global Trade Local Impact: Arms Transfers to all Sides in the Civil War in Sudan (Human Rights Watch Report 1998)
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“Tea and sympathy”: The United States and the Sudan Civil War, 1985–2005 No link available
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U.S. press representation of the southern Sudanese civil war, 1983–2005 No link available
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Darfur (2003-) No link available
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The Post-Colonial State and Civil War in Sudan: The Origins of Conflict in Darfur No link available
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Darfur and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan: A Critical Reader No link available
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Darfur's Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide No link available
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War in Darfur and the Search for Peace No link available
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An Oral and Documentary History of the Darfur Genocide No link available
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Darfur: A 21st Century Genocide No link available
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Sudan: Darfur and the Failure of an African State No link available
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Explaining Darfur: Lectures on the Ongoing Genocide No link available
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Should President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan be charged and arrested by the International Criminal Court? An exchange of views. No link available
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Darfur, JEM and the Khalil Ibrahim Story No link available
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The World and Darfur: International Response to Crimes Against Humanity in Western Sudan No link available
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The geopolitics of representation in foreign news: explaining Darfur No link available
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Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror No link available
article Human Rights Watch 2004 Reports: Darfur in Flames: Atrocities in Western Sudan, Darfur Destroyed: Ethnic Cleansing by Government and Militia Forces in Western Sudan, and If We Return, We Will Be Killed: Consolidation of Ethnic Cleansing in Darfur, Sudan
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Split from South Sudan (2011) No link available
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South Sudan Road to Independence: Broken Promises and Lost Opportunities No link available
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South Sudan: The Untold Story from Independence to the Civil War No link available
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Sudan, South Sudan, and Darfur: What Everyone Needs to Know No link available
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A Poisonous Thorn in Our Hearts: Sudan and South Sudan's Bitter and Incomplete Divorce No link available
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Nuba Mountains (2011-) No link available
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Conflict in the Nuba Mountains : from genocide by attrition to the contemporary crisis in Sudan No link available
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The Nuba Mountains of Sudan: Resource access, violent conflict, and identity No link available
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Violence, authority, and the state in the Nuba Mountains of condominium Sudan No link available
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Educational development and administrative control in the Nuba Mountains region of the Sudan No link available
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British policy and the accentuation of inter-ethnic divisions: the case of the Nuba Mountains region of Sudan, 1920-1940 No link available
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The dilemma of British rule in the Nuba Mountains 1898-1947 No link available
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Resource access: a major cause of armed conflict in the Sudan. The case of the Nuba Mountains No link available
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Marginalisation and violence: Considering origins of insurgency and peace implementation in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan No link available
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Agricultural development policy, ethnicity and socio-political change in the Nuba Mountains, Sudan. No link available
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2010s Protests No link available
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2018/2019 Uprising No link available
article Sudan Uprising Master Document (maintained by @anfalls of Instagram)
Pre-Modern Kingdoms: Antiquity and Archaeology
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article Brown University syllabus on “The Archaeology of Nubia and Egypt”
article “Sudanese Archaeology” papers on Academia.edu
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Pre-1000 B.C. No link available
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Life on the desert edge: seven thousand years of settlement in the Northern Dongola Reach, Sudan No link available
article Eastern Sudan in its Setting: The archaeology of a region far from the Nile Valley
article Map: Archaeological Sites in Sudan
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Kingdom of Kush (1070 B.C.- 350 C.E.) No link available
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The kingdom of Kush: an African centre on the periphery of the Bronze Age world system No link available
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Dar Fur No link available
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The archaeology of Central Darfur (Sudan) in the 1st millennium A.D. No link available
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Darfur (Sudan) in the age of stone architecture c. AD 1000-1750: problems in historical reconstruction No link available
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The stone monuments and antiquities of the Jebel Marra region, Darfur, Sudan, c. 1000-1750 AD No link available
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Medieval Kingdoms of Nubia (400s-1500s C.E.) and Aksum No link available
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Nobatia, Makuria, and Alodia No link available
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Between Two Worlds: The Frontier Region Between Ancient Nubia and Egypt: 3700 BC - 400 AD No link available
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Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile No link available
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Nubia: Ancient Kingdoms of Africa No link available
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The Kingdom of Alwa No link available
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The Beginnings of Christianity in Nubia No link available
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Studies on the history of late antique and Christian Nubia No link available
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Aksum and Nubia: Warfare, Commerce, and Political Fictions in Ancient Northeast Africa No link available
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Aksum and Nubia No link available
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Clothing the elite? Patterns of textile production and consumption in ancient Sudan and Nubia No link available
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The international position of Sudan in Roman and Medieval Times No link available
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Medieval Nubia : a social and economic history No link available
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Mediaeval Nubia in the Perspective of Sudanese History No link available
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The medieval kingdoms of Nubia : pagans, Christians and Muslims along the Middle Nile No link available
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The origin and development of the Sudanese ports ('Aydhâb, Bâ/di ', Sawâkin) in the early Islamic period No link available
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Architectural Evolution of the Nubian Church, 500-1400 A.D. No link available
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Monastic lifestyles of the Nubian desert: Seeking the Mysterious Monks of Makuria No link available
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Archbishop Georgios of Dongola. Socio-political change in the kingdom of Makuria in the second half of the 11th century No link available
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The Fate of Alodia No link available
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Nubia from the late 12th century to the Funj conquest in the early 15th century No link available
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Northern Sudanese perceptions of the Nubian Christian legacy No link available
contemporary Sudan’s antiquities are under threat as Gulf crisis rages
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