The great Egyptian writer Sonallah Ibrahim passed away earlier this month. BULAQ discussed his novel Warda – the story of a female fighter in the 1960s and 70s Dhofar rebellion in Oman, and of the Egyptian intellectual who, decades later, tries to solve the mystery of what happened to her.
“Do words and laughter melt, the way images melt in memory?” Short fiction about life and death by Sudanese author Mona Mohamed Saleh.
These two poems, from Mohamed N.M. Ali latest collection, “نداء السكون” (The Call of Stillness), search for a self and selfhood “in the evening of oblivion.”
By Adil Babikir October holds a special place in the modern history of Sudan. During this month, sixty years ago, the Sudanese people overthrew the first military dictatorship in what […]
The Tragic Tale of Sudan’s Santa By Hassan Aljizouli Translated by Lemya Shammat Since my earliest days, the image of Santa Claus has been inseparably tied to a story—simple, true, […]
By Adil Babikir NOVEMBER 12, 2024 — Amid horrifying reports of mass killings sweeping their country, the Sudanese people awoke on Saturday to the heartbreaking news of the loss of […]
Whispers By Kamal Elgizouli Translated by Adil Babakir It’s not murder that I dread. Not even a tragic end. Nor this door being blown down outright, or them storming in […]
By Lemya Shammat OCTOBER 18, 2024 — Dr. Hashim Mirghani Al-Hajj — a distinguished Sudanese writer, critic, and academic — has been awarded the prestigious Katara Novel Prize in the […]
Black & White By Rania Mamoun Translated by Nassir A-Sayeid Al-Nour I stepped into my room. I found a young man, tensed and searching for something. He looked inside drawers, […]
