Greetings on The Holy Month of Ramadan 2024
From Women’s Education Partnership
Above, minaret of the Great Mosque, Khartoum, seen though a window grille, Imogen Thurbon.
Ramadan 2024 falls as Sudan enters its second, tragic year of war. Observing the Holy Month the way Sudanese would wish to – with joy and generosity, has become ever more difficult as the conflict intensifies, engulfing formerly safe havens and bringing hunger in its wake. For those celebrating Ramadan outside their homeland, this is a bittersweet time when they remember friends and family they cannot be with and pray for their safety.
Below, fragrant flakes of hilumurr; soaked to make the spiced Ramadan drink so emblematic of sunset fast-breaking. Learn more about hilumurr in A Bitter-Sweet Ramadan 2021
Women’s Education Partnership wishes all our kind supporters, friends and donors a Blessed and Safe Ramadan. We hope that when Ramadan returns next year Sudan will once again be at peace.
We will be updating you on our programmes and the situation in Sudan during Ramadan shortly.
This Ramadan we would like to pay tribute to Sudanese women’s contributions to the core of Ramadan celebrations; all they do in bringing families and communities together at this special time of year, all the meals, drinks and delicacies they prepare, often communally and often many weeks in advance.
All this endures and will endure, despite the war and long after the war has ended.
Above, preparing Ramadan meals in Northern Province, 1980s.
Maab Adil reminds us of the wonderful, enduring continuity of Ramadan in her tender video vignette of hilumurr making in Northern Province this Ramadan. Click on the link below to watch this lovely, 4-minute scene:
You can read selected Ramadan poetry and prose from Sudan in
Women's literacy in Sudan 