Your students are lucky! (Was discussing Sudan nat. archives yday & an incident where a historian had relied uncritically on security records altho every protestor & inmate involved contested this record (exciting NYE chat I know) - so important you're having them think about limits as well)

ah your class sounds super cool, thank you for sharing the clip!

I'm too lazy to write a thread but she's got a section on Wikipedia for those interested in reading more about her. Some other photos of her: (she's the one on the right in the B&W photo with Oum Kalthoum), & still wearing those independence flag colours half a century later.

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'Sudan's Grain Divide: A revolution of bread and sorghum' (briefing) / ثورة العيش t.co/idWAsXUtu6

omg the replies to the post you're QTing.... 💀 this app is cooked

'Two revolutions in one' kohljournal.press/Two-Revoluti...
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'Queering Space' kohljournal.press/queering-spa...

'Subaltern Formations and Sudan's 2018-19 Uprising' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Arabic title is mo3alem fi tareekh el hizb el shyu3i

This is also screening in London on 1st December at the Garden Cinema (link: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/khartoum/) and on 16th December at Curzon cinema in Soho (link: www.curzon.com/films/kharto...).

Never told him this when he was alive but realising how much everything I've written is simultaneously about my father, and also very deliberately not about my father. Even though I avoided writing about experiences of imprisoned minors, he/their ghosts still emerge in the stories of others.

having overthrown every dictator we'd ever had, lots of arab analysis in 2019 read the revolution as a "delayed arab spring" when it was the 3rd dictator sudanese ousted. but arab news outlets do actually platform sudanese analysts in sudan from diff movements which is more than western media 2/2

diff arab govts are aligned with diff factions in sudan & sometimes (def not always) that's represented in their state-owned media (eg aljazeera being qatari, al-hadath saudi). but also arab analysts can be v paternalistic/ignorant of their ignorance on sudan, e.g. despite sudanese... 1/2