New Year’s Greetings 2025
Women’s Literacy Sudan would like to wish all our kind readers and supporters a Very Happy New Year 2025. At this dark time for Sudan we hope and pray that next year will bring peace to one of the kindest and most tolerant of peoples. For an update on our current educational projects at Women’s Education Partnership, please see Season’s Greetings 2024.
Above, painting by Mutaz Mohammed Al-Fateh (personal collection). This talented young artist, who had his own studio on Tuti Island before the war, uses traditional Sudanese plant-based tints in his work. The graceful scene above was painted using coffee grounds. Learn more about his work in Coffee and Hibiscus Flowers and Coffee and Hibiscus Flowers 2
Above, artist Mutaz Mohammed Al-Fateh, busy at work in the grounds of the Sudan National Museum where he displayed his work before the war. I was lucky enough to meet Mutaz and get to know his work when I visited the museum in 2019. On the outbreak of war in April last year, Mutaz found himself trapped in the museum when it came under siege. For several harrowing days, Mutaz survived on water and the materials he used in his painting. You can read more about the plight of artists in Sudan at the start of the conflict in Artists in the Midst of War
Mutaz, like so many other Sudanese artists, continues to create works that offer hope and consolation against all the odds. See more in eyes.on.sudan, Waleed Mohammed, The Resonance of Place, Artist Mohammad Mustafa Bears Witness, and Disturbance in the Nile, Sources of Light and Architecture and The Soul of a City
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