Egyptian Alaa Youakeem: The Coolest American Idol Participant EVER!

He likes to sing, he loves American girls from their hair to their “nebble” and he’s absolutely HILARIOUS! It’s a MUST-watch video!

(hat-tip: diptychal)

My Search For Sudanese Jews

I spent a decent amount of time the past few months searching online for Sudanese Jews (and no in case you’re wondering, the guy in the picture is a Falasha). I thought writing a few collaborative posts on this blog would be a super cool thing to do and could potentially even count as a […]

“So, how do you find Sudan?”

Yeah, that’s the inevitable question that expats always get asked. Why the sugar-coating Andrew? Tell us the complete and brutally honest truth!
Yesterday afternoon, I was invited round to a Sudanese family’s house to celebrate the arrival of a new granddaughter. About ten minutes into the party, one of the family’s sons sat down, looked me […]

An Open Letter To Arun Ghandi

Many of you by now must have read Arun Ghandi’s distasteful article in the Washington Post. I found it very shortsighted. Mideast Youth wrote a hilarious and genius response to it. Enjoy…

Sudanese Proverb

Too Huge World is certainly immersing himself significantly within the “Sudanese experience”:
“Even the monkey is like a gazelle in his mother’s eyes.”
To be called a monkey is an insult, as you might expect; a gazelle is a symbol of female beauty, most especially for its eyes and its nimble form.

Apologies For Light Posting

Yeah, sorry about that. Relatives are visiting and “vacationing” over here for a while so I don’t have as much access as I’d like to the internet at home but I’ll be back to full blogging mode in a week’s time (after I head back to campus for my final sem).
Stick around. There will be […]

Determined Against the Odds

Again, it’s one of those pictures that evoke such conflicting emotions.
I love it.
(hat-tip: geraldine)

Sudan Admits Shooting At UN Convey In Darfur

And the previous denials stop:
January 10, 2008 (KHARTOUM) — Sudan acknowledged Thursday that its troops shot at a United Nations convoy in Darfur, reversing an initial denial, but it in part blamed the peacekeepers saying they should have notified Khartoum of their movements.
The Sudanese government has demanded that the joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force give […]

Finally a Two-Day Weekend for Sudan!

Why? Why only now dear government? Take your time. Oh no, please I insist. Seriously go ahead, I insist. Bleh…
About freaking time:
January 6, 2008 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese cabinet today has decided to adopt a two-day weekend starting from January 26.
The Council of Ministers on Sunday decided to expand the weekend holiday from the current one […]

Connecting the Dots: Rastafari, Reggae, Jews and Zionism

Sometime more than a year ago, I wondered about the connection between reggae and Zionism. Occasionally you hear the word “Zion” being sung by artists like Bob Marley and even his son Damien Marley in some of their songs. I had no idea why but I did have a hunch that there was a complex […]

Fouad Farhan: Why We Blog

Whops, I just realized I’m supposed to be silent today in order to express solidarity for Fouad Farhan, a fellow blogger who got jailed by the Saudi authorities.
Better late than never.
I never knew Fouad before the news of his arrest made it all over the media. Today for the first time I checked out some […]

The New “About Drima” Page

I rewrote the “About Drima” page. Lately I was becoming increasingly unhappy with it. It was too “rantish” and not as coherent as I’d have liked it to be.
Check out the new one. It tells an updated story.

There MUST Be Violence Against Women

… so believes this idiot with a brain the size of a rat’s testicle. How cute of him to practice this patriarchal garbage and justify it by glossing it conveniently with his genius “Islam”.
The early Islam which came more than a thousand years ago liberated women. The “Islam” of today however has put them in […]

Obama’s Victory Speech

Admit it. He makes the best and most uplifting speeches. Crap, I’m almost in tears.
When it comes to the Elephants I’ve been saying for a year now that I support John McCain. As for the Donkeys, it’s either Hillary or Obama. I’m sort of undecided but I gotta say I’m leaning more towards Mr. Hope. […]

US Diplomat Shot Dead In Khartoum

Not a good way to begin the new year.

 
KHARTOUM, Sudan - An American diplomat and his driver were shot to death Tuesday in the Sudanese capital, the U.S. Embassy said, a day after a joint African Union-United Nations force took over peacekeeping in Sudan’s Darfur region.
It was not known if the attack had a political […]

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