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Artists for Aid Image Credit: Sacha Lecca for Rolling Stone Sudanese-Canadian Mustafa the Poet, pictured here with Clairo, welcomed the crowd at Thursday night’s benefit concert at Newark Symphony Hall in New Jersey. He said that the night was about endurance and maintaining hope. “It’s easy to feel increasingly hopeless with everything that’s going on,” he told the crowd.  Artists for Aid Image Credit: Sacha Lecca for Rolling Stone Sudanese-Canadian Mustafa the Poet,…

Lebanese artist and film-maker Ali Cherri, artist-in-residence at London’s National Gallery in 2021, makes his feature film debut with a visually striking, ruminative and mysterious piece of work, a kind of magic social realist vision. The script was developed with two French cinema heavyweights, producer and screenwriter Geoffroy Grison and director Bertrand Bonello and it premiered at Cannes in 2022 in the Directors’ Fortnight section.It is a drama teetering on the verge of a heatstroke hallucination, with flourishes of…

River Spirit (Saqi Books, UK) is set in late 19th century Sudan, during the turbulent times of the Mahdist wars and the Ottoman rule. How did you decide on this particular historical moment?  Author Leila Aboulela (Rania Rustom) I initially wanted to write about a more peaceful time in Sudan’s history, the time of rebuilding and fresh hopes after the British invasion of 1898 which brought an end to the Mahdist state. In 2018, I was awarded a fellowship, at the Rockefeller Centre in Bellagio, Italy, based on a…

Published By: Paras YadavLast Updated: April 27, 2023, 10:56 ISTIndigo (Photo: @IndiGo6E / Twitter)Under the evacuation mission 'Operation Kaveri', India is taking the evacuees from Sudan to the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah from where they are returning homeIndiGo on Wednesday said it has offered services for chartered flights to Jeddah to bring back Indians evacuated from Sudan.Under the evacuation mission ‘Operation Kaveri’, India is taking the evacuees from Sudan to the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah from where they are…

A military-occupied laboratory in Sudan poses a “high risk of biological hazard” and a “huge biological risk,” according to the World Health Organization’s representative in the East African country, Nima Saaed Abid. The medical doctor and WHO rep expressed big concerns surrounding Sudan’s National Public Health Lab in Khartoum—the nation’s capital city, where violence continues to mount between two opposing, internal military factions—in a United Nations press briefing on Tuesday. What Motivated Simone Giertz To Build…

When a power struggle between Sudan's top generals erupted into bloodshed, battle-hardened commanders unleashed every weapon in their arsenal -- fighter jets, tanks and also social media.Army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy-turned-rival Mohamed Hamdan Daglo have been "flooding the media with false information", said Raghdan Orsud of Beam Reports, which investigates disinformation in Sudan.For five million people in Sudan's capital -- trapped inside their homes as street fighting has raged, including around the…

Sudan Archives brought “Homesick (Gorgeous & Arrogant),” a track off last year’s widely praised Natural Brown Prom Queen album, to the Tonight Show stage on Monday.Joining the acclaimed violinist and songwriter of the performance was an expertly assembled band boasting trumpet, bass, and drums. The addition of a wine glass, meanwhile, was handled by Sudan Archives’ fellow Stones Throw Records signee Peanut Butter Wolf.See the full performance up top via YouTube.Natural Brown Prom Queen landed on a number of year-end…

Khartoum inks a preliminary deal with a group led by UAE's AD Ports Group and Invictus Investment to build and operate Abu Amama port and economic zone on Red Sea. Abu Amama port, to be built north of the existing key hub of Port Sudan, will include an industrial zone, an international airport, and an…

Brittney Parks is on a mission “to show the Blackness of the violin”, she says. As a child in Ohio, she learned to play the instrument by ear. She moved to Los Angeles in her late teens where, escaping her stepfather’s dream that she and her twin sister Cat should form a pop duo, she started to research the history of string music. “I found violinists who looked like me in Africa, playing it so wildly,” says Parks. “It’s such a serious instrument in a western concert setting, but in so many other places in the world it…

Eighteen tracks long and hellbent on swerving lanes, Sudan Archives’ second album proper is one of those records that invites you to get comfortable in its dizzying headspace. Drawing from a wide array of sources – hip-hop, R&B, west African traditions, club beats, up-to-date digitals, analogue handclaps, looped strings – it all hangs together as a portrait of an artist keen to emphasise her range and primacy. Or, as Sudan Archives puts it on OMG Britt, a straight-up trap track: “They gonna have a fit when they hear…