A Ceasefire in Ramadan? Ramadan in Wartime Khartoum

A Ceasefire in Ramadan? Ramadan in Khartoum Above, stills from the two brief reports featured in this week’s post. Al-Hadath outlines the realities of celebrating Ramadan in Khartoum during wartime, left, and Al- Arabiya, right, discusses the latest ceasefire proposal. Background to This Week’s Texts The two, 1.5-minute texts featured this week outline reactions to

One Story from a Million Stories; Consolation

One Story from a Million Stories; Consolation Screenshot from mr ooossh’s Instagram (Khalid Salah) video featured in this week’s post. Background to This Week’s Text The highly colloquial 2-minute conversation featured this week for listening and lexical focus encapsulates in miniature the unfolding tragedy of Sudan’s civil war. This fast, lower-intermediate text is full of

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

Al-Arabiya and Aljazeera Updates on the Crisis in Sudan

Al-Arabiya and Aljazeera Updates on the Crisis in Sudan Background to This Week’s Texts The two very brief texts (two minutes and one minute each) we focus on this week provide a useful summary of the impact the on-going conflict is having on everyday life in Sudan and make an emotive appeal to viewers across

Exodus; A Nuuar Media Series

Exodus; A Nuuar Media Series Testimonies of Sudanese Forced to Flee Background to This Week’s Text This 2.5-minute, fast, colloquial Sudanese text is a trailer for a NUUAR series of interviews with Sudanese who were forced to flee their homes when war broke out in Khartoum in April this year. We hear snippets of news

Aljazeera Reports on The Education Crisis in Sudan

Aljazeera Reports on The Education Crisis in Sudan Above, the key contributors to this report, still, Aljazeera. Background to This Week’s Text This week’s text is a 2.5-minute intermediate level Aljazeera report outlining the wartime challenges facing the higher education sector in Sudan. You will hear fast, standard journalistic Arabic interspersed with colloquial language. The

Waiting to Return 2/2

Waiting to Return 2/2 Background to This Week’s Text This week’s text focuses on the concluding part of Ahmed’s interview in Awbah Media. See Waiting to Return Part 1 for background to this text and his account of living through the early days of the war. Ahmed uses highly colloquial expressions, fillers and anglicisms /

Waiting to Return Part 1

The Story of the Keys

Voices of Resilience

Voices of Resilience Above, a still from the Aljazeera Facebook video feature on how a young man’s life has changed in the past three months. Background to this Week’s Texts This week, we look at two 1.5-minute, lower-intermediate to intermediate level reports featuring Sudanese civilians whose lives have been disrupted by the ongoing conflict in

Two Songs

A Plea for Compassion in War Background to Today’s Texts This week’s post is dedicated to two poignant and highly evocative short songs (Arabic subtitles built in) currently popular on social media; يا بلد انا كنت قايلك تبت من تعب السفر – قمرية – حليم تاج السر و اواب, sung by Halim Taj as-Sir wa