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
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 …
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. …
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 …
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”), …
One of the exciting community outreach projects that the Narrating Nubia project has been working on is the development of a children’s book. This has been a project undertaken by a team of local community members, archaeologists, and a Sudanese-American artist. On a recent trip to El-Kurru, team members working on the book were able …
In a Zoom meet-up in early February, Mr. Narbe Mansoruian’s sixth grade students at the Hollywood Schoolhouse in Los Angeles, California shared with us their questions and reflections on their participation in the Fall 2022 Nubia Odyssey. We (Michael Fahy and Jeff Stanzler) opened the meeting with Michael showing a handful of photos from his …
Bailey: Anwar and I have been friends since my visit to El-Kurru last year (see post here). We stayed in contact through WhatsApp, and when I saw a Call for Papers over email about an AIA panel on decolonizing North African archaeology, I immediately thought of him. Anwar: I flew to the United States for …
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Several members of the El-Kurru team are on their way to Sudan to work with our partners on the El-Kurru community heritage center, which will open this year. We will have a chance to see our worksheets and teacher training materials in action in several Sudanese schools, and we will work more on our bilingual …
On Saturday, October 22nd at 1pm EST the American Sudanese Archaeological Research Center will be hosting a lecture by Ismail Elnour on community archaeology around the Jebel Barkal site. Zoom registration for the event can be found here.
