Sudan News News Sudan » Culture: Suzannah Mirghani on How Thessaloniki Winner ‘Cotton Queen' Shines a Light on Sudanese Culture: ‘There's a Sense of Being Seen'
As the Doha Film Festival opens its inaugural edition with a robust Spotlight on Sudanese cinema and music, the program arrives at a moment when the country's films, like its people, are fighting to ...
News Sudan » Culture: 'Cinema Keeps That Memory Alive' - Suzannah Mirghani On Cotton Queen and Sudanese Cinema
Sudanese-Russian filmmaker Suzannah Mirghani's debut feature Cotton Queen (2025) follows Nafisa, a teenage girl growing up in a cotton-farming village where stories of Sudan's colonial past collide ...
News Sudan » Culture: An archaeologist is racing to preserve Sudan's heritage as war threatens to erase its cultural past
In a dimly lit office in a corner of the French National Institute for Art History, Sudanese archaeologist Shadia Abdrabo studies a photograph of pottery made in her country around 7,000 B.C. She ...
News Sudan » Culture: Museums looted of priceless artifacts as Sudan counts the cost of a deadly conflict
A statue of the Nubian god Apademak stands alone in the courtyard of Sudan’s National Museum, one of the few survivors of systematic looting amid a conflict that has developed into one of the world’s ...
News Sudan » Culture: The podcast 'Folktales From Sudan' tells us about a culture currently under attack
HANA BABA: These were stories that were told to me by my mom, my uncle Elbagir (ph), my aunties. They were handed-down stories about all kinds of characters - mean stepsisters, magical treasures, ...
News Sudan » Culture: Refugees in Egypt: ‘We leave Sudan, but Sudan does not leave us’
Egypt hosts more than 1.2 million Sudanese refugees as a brutal war in Sudan unleashes the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. In Cairo, photojournalist Hamada Elrasam visits refugees and migrants as ...
News Sudan » Culture: Interview| Sudan turns to ‘last-chance diplomacy’: Sudanese minister
Sudanese Minister of Culture, Information, Antiquities and Tourism Khalid Al-Aiser tells Ahram Online that Khartoum has turned the page on externally driven initiatives in favour of a ...
News Sudan » Culture: Sudanese folktales keep culture alive amidst conflict
Two years ago Tuesday, conflict erupted in Sudan. The civil war between Sudan’s military and paramilitary forces, known as Rapid Support Forces, has decimated communities and left millions without ...
News Sudan » Culture: Hana Baba’s ‘Folktales from Sudan’ Highlights Her Country’s Culture
Next Tuesday, April 15, marks two years since the start of the war in Sudan, which has led to what the UN calls “the most devastating humanitarian and displacement crisis in the world.” The war has ...
News Sudan » Culture: Open Call for Artists – Unbound Sudan: : Through the Culture of Animation
Unbound Sudan seeks visual and fine artists, storytellers, animators and graphic designers to create an animated short movie through professional trainings and in collaboration with the Animation ...
News Sudan » Culture: Oak Lawn students raise money for Sudanese refugees, ‘show people the best of us’
A gathering at Oak Lawn Community High School highlighting the cultures of the school’s students from Egyptian, Sudanese and Syrian backgrounds also was a chance to celebrate the school’s cultural ...
News Sudan » Culture: The podcast 'Folktales From Sudan' tells us about a culture currently under attack
In the news, Sudan is often discussed a place devastated by a civil war and home to the world's largest humanitarian crisis. But a podcast sharing Sudanese folklore shows more about the culture. HANA ...