The Book Of Khartoum

Author : Ali al-Makk,Ahmed al-Malik,Isa al-Hilu,Arthur Gabriel Yak,Bawadir Bashir,Rania Mamoun,Bushra al-Fadil,Mamoun Eltlib,Abdel Aziz Baraka Sakin,Hammour Ziada
Publisher : Comma Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781905583720

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The Book of Khartoum by Ali al-Makk,Ahmed al-Malik,Isa al-Hilu,Arthur Gabriel Yak,Bawadir Bashir,Rania Mamoun,Bushra al-Fadil,Mamoun Eltlib,Abdel Aziz Baraka Sakin,Hammour Ziada Pdf

Khartoum, according to one theory, takes its name from the Beja word hartooma, meaning meeting place . Geographically, culturally and historically, the Sudanese capital is certainly that: a meeting place of the Blue and White Niles, a confluence of Arabic and African histories, and a destination point for countless refugees displaced by Sudan s long, troubled history of forced migration. In the pages of this book the first major anthology of Sudanese stories to be translated into English the city also stands as a meeting place for ideas: where the promise and glamour of the big city meets its tough social realities; where traces of a colonial past are still visible in day-to-day life; where the dreams of a young boy, playing in his fathers shop, act out a future that may one day be his. Diverse literary styles also come together here: the political satire of Ahmed al-Malik; the surrealist poetics of Bushra al-Fadil; the social realism of the first postcolonial authors; and the lyrical abstraction of the new Iksir generation. As with any great city, it is from these complex tensions that the best stories begin. "An exciting, long-awaited collection showcasing some of Sudan's finest writers. There is urgency behind the deceptively languorous voices and a piercing vitality to the shorter forms. These writers lay claim over the contradictions and fusions of the capital city - Nile and drought, urbanization and village ties, what is African and what is Arab." - Leila Aboulela

Author : Raphael Cormack,Max Shmookler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1910974641

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The Book of Khartoum by Raphael Cormack,Max Shmookler Pdf

Author : Jamal Mahjoub
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781408885482

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A Line in the River by Jamal Mahjoub Pdf

'A travelogue and memoir to rank alongside anything by Chatwin or Thubron' Jim Crace 'A most absorbing and rewarding book' Michael Palin In 1956, Sudan gained independence from Britain. On the brink of a promising future, it instead descended into civil war and conflict. When the 1989 coup brought a hard-line Islamist regime to power, Jamal Mahjoub's family were among those who fled. Almost twenty years later, he returned. Rediscovering the city in which his formative years were spent, Mahjoub encounters people and places he left behind. The capital contains the key to understanding Sudan's divided, contradictory nature and while exploring Khartoum's present – its changing identity and shifting moods; its wealthy elite and neglected poor – Mahjoub also delves into the country's troubled history. His search for answers evolves into a thoughtful meditation on the meaning of identity, both personal and national. A Line in the River combines lyrical and evocative memoir with a nuanced exploration of a country's complex history, politics and religion. The result is both captivating and revelatory.

Author : Marie Grace Brown
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503602687

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Khartoum at Night by Marie Grace Brown Pdf

In the first half of the twentieth century, a pioneering generation of young women exited their homes and entered public space, marking a new era for women's civic participation in northern Sudan. A provocative new public presence, women's civic engagement was at its core a bodily experience. Amid the socio-political upheavals of imperial rule, female students, medical workers, and activists used a careful choreography of body movements and fashion to adapt to imperial mores, claim opportunities for political agency, and shape a new standard of modern, mobile womanhood. Khartoum at Night is the first English-language history of these women's lives, examining how their experiences of the British Empire from 1900–1956 were expressed on and through their bodies. Central to this story is the tobe: a popular, modest form of dress that wrapped around a woman's head and body. Marie Grace Brown shows how northern Sudanese women manipulated the tucks, folds, and social messages of the tobe to deftly negotiate the competing pulls of modernization and cultural authenticity that defined much of the imperial experience. Her analysis weaves together the threads of women's education and activism, medical midwifery, urban life, consumption, and new behaviors of dress and beauty to reconstruct the worlds of politics and pleasure in which early-twentieth-century Sudanese women lived.

Author : Daniel Allen Butler
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781935149613

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The First Jihad by Daniel Allen Butler Pdf

A “well-researched” account of the nineteenth-century Sudanese cleric who led a bloody holy war, from a New York Times-bestselling author (Publishers Weekly). Before bin Laden, al-Zarqawi, or Ayatollah Khomeini, there was the Mahdi—the “Expected One”—who raised the Arabs in pan-tribal revolt against infidels and apostates in Sudan. Born on the Nile in 1844, Muhammed Ahmed grew into a devout, charismatic young man, whose visage was said to have always featured the placid hint of a smile. He developed a ferocious resentment, however, against the corrupt Ottoman Turks, their Egyptian lackeys, and finally, the Europeans who he felt held the Arab people in subjugation. In 1880, he raised the banner of holy war, and thousands of warriors flocked to his side. The Egyptians dispatched a punitive expedition to the Sudan, but the Mahdist forces destroyed it. In 1883, Col. William Hicks gathered a larger army of nearly ten thousand men. Trapped by the tribesmen in a gorge at El Obeid, it was massacred to a man. Three months later, another British-led force met disaster at El Teb. This was followed by the infamous conflict at Khartoum, during which a treacherous native—or patriot, depending upon one’s point of view—let the Madhist forces into the city, resulting in the horrifying death of Gen. Charles “Chinese” Gordon at the hands of jihadists. In today’s world, the Mahdi’s words have been repeated almost verbatim by the jihadists who have attacked New York, Washington, Madrid, and London, and continue to wage war from the Hindu Kush to the Mediterranean. Along with Saladin, the Mahdi stands as an Islamic icon who launched his own successful crusade against the West. This deeply researched work reminds us that the “clash of civilizations” that supposedly came upon us in September 2001 in fact began much earlier, and “lays important tracks into the study of terror, fundamentalism and the early clash between Islam and Christianity” (Publishers Weekly).

Author : Alice Franck,Barbara Casciarri,Idris El-Hassan
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800730595

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In-Betweenness in Greater Khartoum by Alice Franck,Barbara Casciarri,Idris El-Hassan Pdf

Focusing on Greater Khartoum following South Sudanese independence in 2011, In-Betweenness in Greater Khartoum explores the impact on society of major political events in areas that are neither urban nor rural, public nor private. This volume uses these in-between spaces as a lens to analyze how these events, in combination with other processes, such as globalization and economic neo-liberalization, impact communities across the region. Drawing on original fieldwork and empirical data, the authors uncover the reshaping of new categories of people that reinforce old dichotomies and in doing so underscore a common Sudanese identity.

Author : John H. Waller
Publisher : Atheneum Books
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015034350416

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Gordon of Khartoum by John H. Waller Pdf

This biography covers Charles Gordon, the legendary Gordon of Khartoum. A supreme imperialist of the nineteenth century, Gordon was also one of the greatest military figures of the British Empire. Lauded as a hero and derided as a lunatic, he was a lead player in the drama of Victorian empire-building.

Author : George Alfred Henty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 183?
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLI:5267036-10

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The Dash for Khartoum by George Alfred Henty Pdf

Author : Gela Chkvanava,Dato Kardava,Ina Archuashvili,Erekle Deisadze,Shota Iatashvili,Lado Kilasonia,Zviad Kvaratskhelia,Iva Pezuashvili,Bacho Kvirtia,Rusudan Rukhadze
Publisher : Comma Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781910974315

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The Book of Tbilisi by Gela Chkvanava,Dato Kardava,Ina Archuashvili,Erekle Deisadze,Shota Iatashvili,Lado Kilasonia,Zviad Kvaratskhelia,Iva Pezuashvili,Bacho Kvirtia,Rusudan Rukhadze Pdf

A rookie reporter, searching for his first big story, re-opens a murder case that once saw crowds of protestors surround Tbilisi's central police station... A piece of romantic graffiti chalked outside a new apartment block sends its residents into a social media frenzy, trying to identify the two lovers implicated by it.... A war-orphaned teenager looks after his dying sister in an abandoned railway carriage on the edge of town, hoping that someday soon the state will take care of them... In the 26 years since Georgia declared independence from the Soviet Union, the country and its capital, Tbilisi, have endured unimaginable hardships: one coup d'état, two wars with Russia, the cancer of organised crime, and prolonged periods of brutalising, economic depression. Now, as the city begins to flourish again – drawing hordes of tourists with its eclectic architecture and famous, welcoming spirit – it's difficult to reconcile the recent past with this glamorous and exotic present. With wit, warmth, heartbreaking realism, and a distinctly Georgian sense of neighbourliness, these ten stories do just that. 'Acts as an introduction to a literature quite neglected by the Anglophone world... the language consistently has the direct, clean and unadorned quality of great fiction.' – Luke Kennard. ‘A soaring, searing collection – important new stories that are sure to live long in the memory.’ – Eley Williams, author of Attrib. Published with the support of the Georgian National Book Center and the Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia.

Author : Trevor Royle
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780750968874

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The Kitchener Enigma by Trevor Royle Pdf

In this critically acclaimed biography, now fully updated, Royle revises Kitchener's latter-day image as a stern taskmaster, the ultimate war lord, to reveal a caring man capable of displaying great loyalty and love to those close to him. New light is thrown on his Irish childhood, his years in the Middle East as a biblical archaeologist, his attachment to the Arab cause and on the infamous struggle with Lord Curzon over control of the army in India. In particular, Royle reassesses Kitchener's role in the Great War, presenting his phenomenally successful recruitment campaign – 'Your Country Needs You' – as a major contribution to the Allied victory and rehabilitating him as a brilliant strategist who understood the importance of fighting the war on multiple fronts.

Author : Charles Chenevix Trench
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Colonial administrators
ISBN : OCLC:1036942905

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The Road to Khartoum by Charles Chenevix Trench Pdf

Author : Maya Abu Al-Hayat,Liana Badr,Anas Abu Rahma,Ahlam Bsharat,Ameer Hamad,Khaled Hourani,Ahmad Jaber,Ziad Khadash,Ibrahim Nasrallah,Mahmoud Shukair
Publisher : Comma Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781912697526

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The Book of Ramallah by Maya Abu Al-Hayat,Liana Badr,Anas Abu Rahma,Ahlam Bsharat,Ameer Hamad,Khaled Hourani,Ahmad Jaber,Ziad Khadash,Ibrahim Nasrallah,Mahmoud Shukair Pdf

A coffee seller waits all day for one of his customers to ask him how he is, until eventually he just tells the city itself... A teenager is ordered off a bus at a checkpoint and told he must kiss a complete stranger if he wants the bus to be let through... A woman pilgrimages to the Cave of the Prophets, to pray for rain for her tiny patch of land, knowing it will take more than water to save it... Unlike most other Palestinian cities, Ramallah is a relatively new town, a de facto capital of the West Bank allowed to thrive after the Oslo Peace Accords, but just as quickly hemmed in and suffocated by the Occupation as the Accords have failed. Perched along the top of a mountainous ridge, it plays host to many contradictions: traditional Palestinian architecture jostling against aspirational developments and cultural initiatives, a thriving nightlife in one district, with much more conservative, religious attitudes in the next. Most striking however – as these stories show – is the quiet dignity, resilience and humour of its people; citizens who take their lives into their hands every time they travel from one place to the next, who continue to live through countless sieges, and yet still find the time, and resourcefulness, to create.

Author : John Wilcox
Publisher : Headline
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755376599

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Siege of Khartoum by John Wilcox Pdf

1884. Queen Victoria's hero General Gordon is under siege. Hoards of Dervish warriors, loyal to the Mahdi, the Sudanese warlord and Messiah, are baying for British blood. With a small army and diminishing supplies, Gordon fears Khartoum will fall. Ex-captain and one-time subaltern Simon Fonthill is summoned to Cairo on a vital mission. He must enter the heavily guarded city undetected and make contact with Gordon ahead of the relief force. Together with comrade '352' Jenkins, Fonthill makes the treacherous journey across the Nile. But when they're captured by a sadistic Dervish patrol, it seems hope of a British victory is all but lost. Can Fonthill and Jenkins survive interrogation and save Khartoum . . . ?

Author : Russell McDougall
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789004461147

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Letters from Khartoum. D.R. Ewen by Russell McDougall Pdf

Letters from Khartoum is a partial biography of Scottish educator, D.R. Ewen, and of the teaching of English Literature at the University of Khartoum, from the time of the late Anglo-Egyptian Condominium through to Independence and the October 1964 Revolution.

Author : Rania Mamoun
Publisher : Comma Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781912697199

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Thirteen Months of Sunrise by Rania Mamoun Pdf

A young woman sits by her father’s deathbed, lamenting her failure to keep a promise to him… A struggling writer walks every inch of the city in search of inspiration, only to find it is much closer than she imagined… A girl collapses from hunger at the side of the road and is rescued by the most unlikely of saviours... In this powerful, debut collection, Rania Mamoun expertly blends the real and imagined to create a rich, complex and moving portrait of contemporary Sudan. From painful encounters with loved ones to unexpected new friendships, Mamoun illuminates the breadth of human experience and explores, with humour and compassion, the alienation, isolation and estrangement that is urban life. Translated from the Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette. It is a phenomental, exacting collection. It's intense and intimate, and always bordering, with absolute control, on the subversive and erotic. It's also very funny - Rania Mamoun is an extraordinary talent.'- Preti Taneja, author of We That Are Young ‘A stunning collection, remarkable for its sweet clarity of voice and startling depictions of the marginalised and the destitute. With mastery, Rania Mamoun reaches straight into the heartbeat of her subject matter, laying bare humanity in all its tenderness and tenacity.’ – ‘A stunning collection, remarkable for its sweet clarity of voice and startling depictions of the marginalised and the destitute. With mastery, Rania Mamoun reaches straight into the heartbeat of her subject matter, laying bare humanity in all its tenderness and tenacity.’ - Leila Aboulela, author of Elsewhere Home