Faculty from the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and the African Studies Program at Georgetown University worked together to create a selection of books (and one film!) about Sudan. Take your pick and start reading!
Rochelle Davis
- The Struggle for Sudan by Khalid Medani
- Rap is the Next Chapter of Sudan’s Sonic Story by Yassmin Abdel-Magied
- Beats of the Antonov (film) directed by Hajooj Kuka
Lahra Smith
- Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
- River Spirit by Leila Aboulela
- Darfur Allegory by Alum Rogaia Abusharaf
- Transforming Sudan by Alden Young
Killian Clarke
- The Struggle for Sudan by Khalid Medani
- Seasons of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
- Revolutionary Sudan: The Challenges of Democracy After Autocracy by Khalid Medani
- Law’s Fragile State: Colonial, Authoritarian, and Humanitarian Legacies in Sudan by Mark Fathi Massoud
- “Sudan’s Uprising: The Fall of a Dictator” Journal of Democracy by Mai Hassan & Ahmed Kodouda
Fida Adely
- River Spirit by Leila Aboulela
- ‘The Miskeet Tree Doesn’t Belong Here’: Shifting Land Values and the Politics of Belonging in Um Doum, Central Sudan by Nisrin Elamin
- Arab Identity and Ideology in Sudan: The politics of language, ethnicity, and race by Heather J Sharkey
- Narrating Feminism: The Woman Question in the Thinking of an African Radical by Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf
Noureddine Jebnoun
- Black Markets and Militants: Informal Networks in the Middle East and Africa by Khalid Medani
- Lost Nationalism: Revolution, Memory and Anti-colonial Resistance in Sudan by Elena Vezzadini
Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf
- The Struggle for Sudan by Khalid Medani
- Darfur Allegory by Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf
- Famine that Kills by Alex de Waal