News and Updates

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• Panel discussion: Heritage at El-Kurru, Sudan
  by Geoff Emberling
  November 6, 2023
  Narrating Nubia team members Anawar Mahajoub and Geoff Emberling will talk online about heritage in El-Kurru Sudan this Wednesday, November 8 at noon Eastern time. For more details, see: https://lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/news-events/all-events.detail.html/114227-21832519.html
• Some Impacts of the Civil War on El Kurru
  by Shannon Ness
  September 8, 2023
  Collaborator Ibrahim Sidahmed shares in his own words how the ongoing conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia has impacted daily life in the village of El-Kurru and countless other villages and small towns throughout Sudan. Since the war broke out in April, 15th between SAF and RSF… Read more: Some Impacts of the Civil War on El Kurru
• Narrating Nubia: The Exhibition
  by Shannon Ness
  August 11, 2023
  Things have been a bit quiet these past few months, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been hard at work! With our Michigan Humanities grant concluding this summer, each of the sub groups are wrapping up their individual research projects — while much of our collective attention has been focused on our upcoming fall exhibition.… Read more: Narrating Nubia: The Exhibition
• Help Safeguard Sudan’s Heritage
  by Shannon Ness
  May 12, 2023
  Dear Readers, We share a message from our AmSARC friends and colleagues: Sudan is in crisis, and our colleagues with the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums (NCAM) need our help to maintain their positions and safeguard cultural heritage throughout Sudan! The American Sudanese Archaeological Research Center (AmSARC) is now accepting donations to aid NCAM… Read more: Help Safeguard Sudan’s Heritage
• Heritage Center Renovations Update
  by Wren Reed
  March 13, 2023
  We have restarted our renovation of “Beit Mahjoub”—the house of Mahjoub’s family—that will be the home for the Community Heritage Center in El-Kurru! One of the project’s architects, Nadejda Reshetnikova (“Nadia”), returned to El-Kurru for three weeks in January and February to restart the project. She and our second architect, José Ignacío Forcadell Utrilla (“Nacho”),… Read more: Heritage Center Renovations Update