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The blog was curated with a museum mindset treating stories and media content as if they were museum objects and subjects. The different rooms have themes taken from traditional knowledge like food and coexistence, which also address forms of knowledge such as gender and language.

Women

Sudanese women are the main force behind many of their country’s social and political movements and are therefore important agents of change; from the women during the Mahdiya period, whose histories have been mostly omitted, to the women who marched during the 2018 revolution. Through an analogy of building a dwelling, the role will be examined of Sudanese women in their society and the impact their knowledge and actions have on everyday life and how this is recorded over time.

Cities

A city is a living organism whose life is sustained by its people and community. Culture, on the other hand, is formulated within communities as they interact with each other and with their environment. Cities and spaces contribute to the development of culture but are equally shaped by it. This is observed in citizens’ perceptions of the meaning and value of their surrounding space, and how they occupy it.

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Women

How do Sudanese women instigate change in their community using heritage and culture?

Women

Sudanese women are the main force behind many of their country’s social and political movements and are therefore important agents of change; from the women during the Mahdiya period, whose histories have been mostly omitted, to the women who marched during the 2018 revolution. Through an analogy of building a dwelling, the role will be examined of Sudanese women in their society and the impact their knowledge and actions have on everyday life and how this is recorded over time.

Cities

How does a place become heritage?

Cities

A city is a living organism whose life is sustained by its people and community. Culture, on the other hand, is formulated within communities as they interact with each other and with their environment. Cities and spaces contribute to the development of culture but are equally shaped by it. This is observed in citizens’ perceptions of the meaning and value of their surrounding space, and how they occupy it.

Food

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Food

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Communication

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Communication

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Coexistence

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Coexistence

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About Us

The SSLH blog museum extends our living heritage awareness campaign on social media by allowing topics to be organised and treated in more depth.

The original SSLH brief was to revitalise the Ethnographic Museum in Khartoum as Sudan’s Living Heritage Museum. Due to the war, this became impossible. The blog museum space utilises digital space as a temporary alternative, working within its limits and potential to initiate discussions, archive and express our living heritage and identity.

The blog was curated with a museum mindset treating stories and media content as if they were museum objects and subjects. The different rooms have themes taken from traditional knowledge like food and coexistence, which also address forms of knowledge such as gender and language.

The curation logic also attempts a different viewpoint on ethnographic collections, one that recognises the different groups as designers, authors, and knowledge holders.

The blog museum team is both an expert editorial and media team along with diverse cultural experts specialised in museums, environment, and living heritage.

Thanks to...

Zainab O. M. Gaafar
Curator, writer, translator, and content producer
Sara El-Nager
Chief editor, writer, and translator
Mamoun Eltlib
Arabic editor, proofreader, and translator
Dr Helen Mallinson
General producer
Khalda M. Nour
Translator
Zoe Cormack
Museum consultant
Muzna Alhaj
Researcher and translator
Amna Elidrissy
Researcher and writer
Alia Ibrahim
English proofreader
Anas Madani
Aya Sinada
Dr Amani Gashi
Dr. Merghani Deishab
Durham Archive
Griselda El Tayib Archive
Isam Hafiz
Khalid Shambool
Khalifa House Museum
Mark Watmore and Yoho Media
Michael Mallinson
Shaikan Museum
Studio Urban
Sudan Memory
Western Sudan Community Museums Project
Ashraf Abdalla
Azza Ahmed Abdel Aziz
Dr Fatma Mostafa
Dr Mohammed Abdullah Al-Hussein
Dr Nahid Muhammad al-Hasan
Khalid Abdel Rahman
Mazin Elrasheed
Mohamed Kamal
Mohammed Ibrahim
Mustafa Muiz
Najlaa Osman Eltom
Omer Eltigani
Prof. Osman Mahgoub Gaafar
Rebecca Lorins
Salih Abdel Rahman
Shiroug Idris
Shorrti
Sidahmed Mohamed Al-Hassan
Snoop

SSLH
Editorial Team

Zainab O. M. Gaafar
Curator, writer, translator, and content producer
Sara El-Nager
Chief editor, writer, and translator
Mamoun Eltlib
Arabic editor, proofreader, and translator
Dr Helen Mallinson
General producer
Khalda M. Nour
Translator
Zoe Cormack
Museum consultant
Muzna Alhaj
Researcher and translator
Amna Elidrissy
Researcher and writer
Alia Ibrahim
English proofreader

Key
Contributers

Anas Madani
Aya Sinada
Dr Amani Gashi
Dr. Merghani Deishab
Durham Archive
Griselda El Tayib Archive
Isam Hafiz
Khalid Shambool
Khalifa House Museum
Mark Watmore and Yoho Media
Michael Mallinson
Shaikan Museum
Studio Urban
Sudan Memory
Western Sudan Community Museums Project

Other
‍Contributers

Ashraf Abdalla
Azza Ahmed Abdel Aziz
Dr Fatma Mostafa
Dr Mohammed Abdullah Al-Hussein
Dr Nahid Muhammad al-Hasan
Khalid Abdel Rahman
Mazin Elrasheed
Mohamed Kamal
Mohammed Ibrahim
Mustafa Muiz
Najlaa Osman Eltom
Omer Eltigani
Prof. Osman Mahgoub Gaafar
Rebecca Lorins
Salih Abdel Rahman
Shiroug Idris
Shorrti
Sidahmed Mohamed Al-Hassan
Snoop
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