After the Revolution, Before the War: Tracing Khartoum’s Syrian Community
Royal African Society ·
On 18 March 2023, Arwa Ahmed, an architect and photographer of the Sudanese revolution, and I stood chatting in the shade of the Grand Hotel on Nile Street in Khartoum. We had spent the morning jumping in and out of Arwa’s white Hyundai photographing buildings of historic significance for the Syrian…