Art in the Streets of Khartoum
Khartoum Scenes Imogen Thurbon using Waterlogue
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“There I was, cutting through a strange market crowd – not just people shopping for their salad greens, but beggars and butchers and thieves, prancers and Prophet-praisers and soft-sided soldiers, the newly-arrived and the just-retired, the flabby and the flimsy, sellers roaming and street kids groaning, god-damners, bus-waiters and white-robed traders, elegant and fumbling…”
The Story of the Girl Whose Birds Flew Away, Bushra al-Fadil, translated by Max Schmookler, from The Book of Khartoum
Award-winning short stories by established and new Sudanese writers
Learn more at thetanjara.blogspot –The Book of Khartoum – ten short stories
Read The Story of the Girl Whose Birds Flew Away
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Street Scenes, Central Khartoum copyright Imogen Thurbon
Street Art Project by students of Khartoum University Art Faculty
Off Parliament Street, central Khartoum
Prepare the morning coffee and you will swiftly forget the morning bath.
Commemorating the Sudanese Struggle for Independence
Seen in Central Khartoum, 2016
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