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Relax with Saad Sweets: September 2010
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Relax with Saad Sweets. Life by the Nile 1984-1988. Tuesday, 28 September 2010. Sudan Studies, Number 15 (January 1994). The condition known as 'noctambulism', which is less obscurely defined in dictionaries as 'somnambulism', and is spoken of in the English speaking world as 'sleep-walking', finds expression in northern Sudan in a colloquial phrase about a donkey. This 'donkey of sleep' (. Of farmers up and down the river. Laid out under the open skies on the narrow iron roof. The house could hold a...
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Relax with Saad Sweets: The Rumoured Soccer War*
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Relax with Saad Sweets. Life by the Nile 1984-1988. Monday, 13 September 2010. The Rumoured Soccer War*. Sudan Studies, Number 13 (January 1993). Anthony Quinn, the epitome of elderly wisdom, sat cross-legged in the dust of the Libyan village, instructing an attentive group of small boys on the nature of Islam. Aided by the classical Arabic script which had been dubbed over the English sound track, Quinn gave a credible performance as the celebrated Senussi guerilla leader, Omar al-Mu kh. The news shatte...
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Relax with Saad Sweets: Arabic the Hard Way
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Relax with Saad Sweets. Life by the Nile 1984-1988. Wednesday, 20 October 2010. Arabic the Hard Way. It's easy. Just pretend you're swallowing the base of your tongue. Then let out a strangled cry. That's. One of the handful of letters in the Arabic alphabet which don't exist in English. A most unscientific approach to language acquisition, it was certainly effective. Life in a foreign country is hugely enriched if you have a working knowledge of the language. Breast pocket of my shirt wherever I went.
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Relax with Saad Sweets: Riding the Desert Trail
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Relax with Saad Sweets. Life by the Nile 1984-1988. Wednesday, 1 September 2010. Riding the Desert Trail. Sudan Studies, Number 7 (January 1990). Riding the Desert Trail. By bicycle to the source of the Nile, by Bettina Selby. Sphere Books, Penguin, London, 1989). Opting to follow the Nile from Wadi Halfa rather than strike out into open desert and slog her way to Abu Hamed along the railway track (surely an impossible task by bike), the author loads her 18-speed, all-terrain bicycle into a. Inevitably h...
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Relax with Saad Sweets: Laconda Raid
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Relax with Saad Sweets. Life by the Nile 1984-1988. Thursday, 2 September 2010. Sudan Studies, Number 8 (May 1990). Is a very cheap Sudanese hotel akin to a dosshouse but low on sleaze. A typical example in central Khartoum is situated between the Gasr an-Nil and Saalih hotels. I once took some Save the Children Fund workers who'd never before eaten. Beans, to have supper at this establishment. Patrons sat outside on straw. A type of yoghurt called. A peppery sauce of red. Relishing the sound of the bird...
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Relax with Saad Sweets: Exam Stress
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Relax with Saad Sweets. Life by the Nile 1984-1988. Thursday, 4 November 2010. Sudan Studies, Number 18, (August 1990). Siege fever had taken grip of the teachers' '. Mild-mannered head of geography at Abri. Boys' School, had stacked the space under his bed with Molotov cocktails. And Mahmoud, a history teacher from Ed- Dammer. Had procured a three foot iron bar which he too stowed away at easy reach beneath his mattress. Prepared notes there. Most were intercepted, frisked and relieved of their ille...
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Relax with Saad Sweets: August 2010
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Relax with Saad Sweets. Life by the Nile 1984-1988. Tuesday, 31 August 2010. From Argo to Leicester Square. Sudan Studies, Number 7 (January 1990). It was 3.30pm on a hot dusty day in the northern Sudanese village of Argo and it was my turn to make the tea. Mohammed Osman had broken into his usual banter about my status as an 'unbeliever' as soon as we'd left the school in which we taught. In his opinion, my atheistic Scottish soul was destined to join the shrieking hordes of other '. Of which the latter...
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Relax with Saad Sweets: Humar an Noom
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Relax with Saad Sweets. Life by the Nile 1984-1988. Tuesday, 28 September 2010. Sudan Studies, Number 15 (January 1994). The condition known as 'noctambulism', which is less obscurely defined in dictionaries as 'somnambulism', and is spoken of in the English speaking world as 'sleep-walking', finds expression in northern Sudan in a colloquial phrase about a donkey. This 'donkey of sleep' (. Of farmers up and down the river. Laid out under the open skies on the narrow iron roof. The house could hold a...
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Relax with Saad Sweets: Nubian Massage
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Relax with Saad Sweets. Life by the Nile 1984-1988. Monday, 6 September 2010. Sudan Studies, Number 11 (January 1992). My appreciation of the Nubian sunset slid behind an all obscuring horizon of pure agony. Convinced that breathing was about to cease, I steeled myself for the worst as each rasping inhalation of twilight dust sent shock waves through my body. My predicament came to the attention of a Nulwetta schoolboy called Fatih and he took me to the local 'doctor', who very quickly satisfied himself ...
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