"What about the one who called the mosque after himself and built a sky-scraping minaret? People said he built his wealth from dubious deals. Certainly, people’s gossip was endless."
Publication Day for ‘Modern Sudanese Poetry: An Anthology’
From the start, he frames Sudan's poetic landscape as oppositional -- African and Arab, Tropical Forest and Desert -- or as a dual and twined Afro-Arab tradition.
Mohammed Ali Ahmed: ‘Can You Hear the Call?’
"This poem first reached my ears on the baritone waves of Abdel Aziz Daoud's captivating voice."
