Kizzie: Sudanese Inferiority Complex & Pathetic Arab Coverage of Darfur

Posted on August 6, 2007
Filed Under Darfur, Racism, Blogging and New Media |

Kizzie wrote a nice post about Sudanese inferiority complex. I disagree with one small thing though. Inferiority complex is not implanted in every Sudanese but I would say most.

She also wrote a rather angry but really good post on the pathetic Arab coverage of Darfur. I feel you girl!

The problem is Sudan will rather be the trash of the Arab world than be considered African.

You’re are so right!

Head over to her blog:

Sudanese Inferiority Complex.

Pathetic Arab Coverage of Darfur.

And while you’re at it, check out Nabil Kassem’s Jihad on Horseback if you still haven’t.

Oh, one more thing, Kizzie’s sister recently joined the blogosphere.

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9 Responses to “Kizzie: Sudanese Inferiority Complex & Pathetic Arab Coverage of Darfur”

  1. Ahmad al-Safawi on August 6th, 2007 11:34 am

    Now i do not know much about the Darfur crisis, but here in my European country, the media often covers the Darfur crisis as arabs nomads against african farmers. Would it be correct for me to assume that is not as simple as that (i.e. a battle between arabs and africans)?

  2. Ahmad al-Safawi on August 6th, 2007 11:40 am

    By the way - did i ever mention on this blog that one of by biggest dreams is to travel through Sudan? from Wadi Halfa all the way to the south. That is acutally how i found this blog - i was googling after sudanese people online.

  3. Roman Kalik on August 6th, 2007 11:46 am

    Ahmad, after reading this blog for some time I can safely say that I haven’t the foggiest notion of who is fighting who in Darfur. There seem to be at least four wars going on there all at the same time.

    I can also safely say that the Janjaweed are a bunch of monsters, but they seem to be merely a tool used by Sudan’s government rather than a true definition of its end goals.

  4. Ahmad al-Safawi on August 6th, 2007 11:53 am

    Sorry, but i also forgot to mention this: I know that many arabs treat Sudan as the trash of the Arab world, but for what?

    Now, if you collect 10 arab males from Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Sudan, Syria, Jordan, Irak, Libya and Tunisia respectively, and ask them what they think are most significant of our customs.

    I guess the majority would say: Arab hospitality!

    I have never been to Sudan (unfortunately), but i have seen and sit with many sudanese immigrants in Egypt. Now, we egyptians are known for our hospilaity and kindness to strangers, but we were waaay overshined by the sudanese that i’ve met! Most of them did greet me every time they saw me, even though we did not know each other. I could not speak to a sudanese man except he would invite me to dinner with his family! And that despite the fact that they were poor immigrants where i compared to them was a wealthy EU citizen. Honestly i’ve never seen so much kindness towards me before, not even in the villages in Egypt.

    Compare this to the oil-rich Gulf Arabs. When i visited Dubai, i were told by the locals not to stand up when greeting pakistani immigrants, because an arab should not stand up for a Non-Arab! What happended to the Arab hospitality and our kindness towards strangers?

    The sudanese that i’ve met are the pearls of the Arab world, and the Gulf Arabs that i’ve met are it’s trash! That’s how i see it.

  5. kizzie on August 6th, 2007 7:50 pm

    hey thanks drima,
    I will go back to the post n correct it because I hate hasty generalizations! I should never generalize.

    Ahmad,
    I live in Egypt:) The sudanese refugees in egypt are constantly harassed, but my experience in egypt was pleasant.

  6. Roman Kalik on August 6th, 2007 8:02 pm

    Kizzie, it was very interesting reading your posts, as well as the debates that followed. :)
    Thanks for the links, Drima.

  7. BRE on August 8th, 2007 9:33 am

    I found Al-Aribiya producer Nabil Kaseem’s groundbreaking documentary “Jihad on Horseback” to have pixalation problems as I tried to watch it online. That problem may have to do with some settings on my computer or a problem with high-bandwidth video streaming delivery from the Arab Media & Society web servers. Nabil Kaseem’s documentary is so important that someone needs to check every technical aspect of its online performance so that it has the widest and best global audience possible. The way that TED Global delivers their TEDTalks videos would be the way to go for this important documentary.

    What I found to be very, very interesting and without any technical flaws was the interview with the documentary producer Nabil Kaseem. Even without the support of any visuals (video and photos) one could clearly understand the honesty and desperation and frustration of this Arab news media professional after his visits to refugee camps in Chad and interviews with key political figures in Khartoum.

    Perhaps the best distribution channel for the documentary “Jihad on Horseback” is not via the Al-Aribiya media network but right here in the blogosphere, at least for starters.

    BTW: Did you see Fortune magazine’s recent feature by Vivienne Walt on the business boom in Khartoum made in China? The article is detailed and well written and it raises several important issues that governments, foreign investors and businesspeople around the world need to think about as they look toward the other Sudan(s).

    You can find that article at the CNNMoney.com website under the following URL:
    http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/06/news/international/Sudan_khartoum.fortune/index.htm

  8. Drima on August 9th, 2007 1:06 am

    Thanks for the link BRE!

  9. zozimos on October 15th, 2007 9:54 pm

    “Would it be correct for me to assume that is not as simple as that (i.e. a battle between arabs and africans)?”

    They’ve said it’s not race, that it’s over resources. But if it’s not about race here, but resources, i’d say the same holds true for the arab/Isreali situation.

    If
    zionism is racism
    then
    arabism is nazism.

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