I am Sudanese – Omer Elamin

I am Sudanese, Omer Alamin Above, stills from the video featured in this week’s listening text. Background to This Week’s Text This week’s upper-intermediate / pre-advanced, poetic, classical Arabic text is an exquisite hymn to the Sudanese character and its virtues in adversity. The song, Ana Sudani, arranged here by Omer Alamin, was originally sung

Sudan bids farewell to Shadin Gardood; Aljazeera and Al Arabiya tell her story

Singer and Peace Campaigner

Ahmad, The Violinist

Ahmad, The Violinist Above, still from the Aljazeera video featured in this week’s post. Background to This Week’s Text This gentle and inspiring four-minute Aljazeera report opens a door onto the life a talented young musician who braved sleeping on the streets of Khartoum to live his dream. Although the syntax and lexical range is

The Music of Sudan 4/5

Background to This Week’s Text Below, stills from this week’s episode of the Aljazeera documentary, The Music of Sudan. This week’s very brief excerpt focuses on an interview with the Sudanese singer-songwriter, Nancy Ajaj (also written Agag), featured in the Aljazeera documentary, The Music of Sudan. The singer’s exquisite voice and her delicate, lyrical style

The Music of Sudan 3/5

Two Musical Legends in Sudan Above, stills from this week’s featured Aljazeera video excerpt, capturing the atmosphere of everyday Khartoum, also distilled in the music we hear. Background to This Week’s Text This week’s 10-minute, lower-intermediate level episode from Aljazeera’s The Music of Sudan documentary features interviews with two very different Sudanese musical legends. Both

The Music of Sudan 2/5

Background to This Week’s Text This week’s text is the the second of five episodes of the Aljazeera documentary dedicated to both Sudanese musical legends and talented young musical artists in Sudan. This episode features two very different types of musical genres; the music of an up-and-coming Sudanese woman singer-song writer and that of a