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The blog was curated with a museum mindset treating stories and media content as if they were museum objects and subjects. The different rooms have themes taken from traditional knowledge like food and coexistence, which also address forms of knowledge such as gender and language.

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Women

How do Sudanese women instigate change in their community using heritage and culture?

Women

How do Sudanese women instigate change in their community using heritage and culture?

Cities

How does a place become heritage?

Cities

How does a place become heritage?

Food

How can food shape our concept of heritage?

Food

How can food shape our concept of heritage?

Resilience and Coexistence

How do people cope with disasters?

Resilience and Coexistence

How do people cope with disasters?

Language and Communication

How languages become vessels for heritage as they develop over the generations?

Language and Communication

How languages become vessels for heritage as they develop over the generations?

Landscape

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Landscape

Coming Soon

About Us

The SSLH blog museum extends our living heritage awareness campaign on social media by allowing topics to be organised and treated in more depth.

The original SSLH brief was to revitalise the Ethnographic Museum in Khartoum as Sudan’s Living Heritage Museum. Due to the war, this became impossible. The blog museum space utilises digital space as a temporary alternative, working within its limits and potential to initiate discussions, archive and express our living heritage and identity.

The blog was curated with a museum mindset treating stories and media content as if they were museum objects and subjects. The different rooms have themes taken from traditional knowledge like food and coexistence, which also address forms of knowledge such as gender and language.

The curation logic also attempts a different viewpoint on ethnographic collections, one that recognises the different groups as designers, authors, and knowledge holders.

The blog museum team is both an expert editorial and media team along with diverse cultural experts specialised in museums, environment, and living heritage.

Thanks to...

Zainab O. M. Gaafar
Curator, writer, translator, and content producer
Sara El-Nager
Chief editor, writer, and translator
Mamoun Eltlib
Arabic editor, proofreader, and translator
Khalda M. Nour
Translator
Dr Helen Mallinson
General producer
Zoe Cormack
Museum consultant
Muzna Alhaj
Researcher and translator
Amna Elidrissy
Researcher and writer
Alia Ibrahim
English proofreader
Hind Abdelbagi Abdelgadir Elzubir
Research assistant
Amani Yousif Basheer
Anas Madani
Asia Mahmoud
Aya Sinada
Darfur museum
Dr Amani Gashi
Dr Ikram Madani
Durham Archive
Fatima Osman Mohamed Mustafa
Griselda El Tayib Archive
Hatem El-Siddiq Mohammed Ahmed
Isam Hafiz
Khalid Shambool
Khalifa House Museum
Mark Watmore and Yoho Media
Merghani Deishab
Michael Mallinson
Najlaa Osman Eltom
Rayan Khalil
Roaa Ismael
Shaikan Museum
Shorrti
Studio Urban
Sudan Memory
The British Museum
Western Sudan Community Museums Project
Women Museum in Darfur
Yousif Hamad
Ahmed Gaafar
Ahmed Ibrahim Mohamed Sulaiman
Alsir Al-Sayed
Ashraf Abdalla
Azza Ahmed Abdel Aziz
Dafallah Hajj Ali
Dr Fatma Mostafa
Dr Mohammed Abdullah Al-Hussein
Dr Nahid Muhammad al-Hasan
Dr Sahar Rasoul
Dr. Rashid Mustafa Bakhit
El-Tadafuq organization
Iqbal Ayoub
Khalid Abdel Rahman
Locale
Mai Abusalih
Mazin Elrasheed
Mohamed Kamal
Mohammed Awad
Mohammed Ibrahim
Mohammed Osman
Montser Khair Monti
Mujahid Al-Doma
Mustafa Muiz
Noory Taha
Omer Eltigani
Prof. Fadwa Abdul Rahman Ali Taha
Prof. Osman Mahgoub Gaafar
Rafa Renas
Rebecca Lorins
Salih Abdel Rahman
Sari Omer
Shiroug Idris
Sidahmed Mohamed Al-Hassan
Sittana Badri
Snoop
Yousif Alshikh
Yousif Basheer Idris

SSLH
Editorial Team

Zainab O. M. Gaafar
Curator, writer, translator, and content producer
Sara El-Nager
Chief editor, writer, and translator
Mamoun Eltlib
Arabic editor, proofreader, and translator
Khalda M. Nour
Translator
Dr Helen Mallinson
General producer
Zoe Cormack
Museum consultant
Muzna Alhaj
Researcher and translator
Amna Elidrissy
Researcher and writer
Alia Ibrahim
English proofreader
Hind Abdelbagi Abdelgadir Elzubir
Research assistant

Key
Contributors

Amani Yousif Basheer
Anas Madani
Asia Mahmoud
Aya Sinada
Darfur museum
Dr Amani Gashi
Dr Ikram Madani
Durham Archive
Fatima Osman Mohamed Mustafa
Griselda El Tayib Archive
Hatem El-Siddiq Mohammed Ahmed
Isam Hafiz
Khalid Shambool
Khalifa House Museum
Mark Watmore and Yoho Media
Merghani Deishab
Michael Mallinson
Najlaa Osman Eltom
Rayan Khalil
Roaa Ismael
Shaikan Museum
Shorrti
Studio Urban
Sudan Memory
The British Museum
Western Sudan Community Museums Project
Women Museum in Darfur
Yousif Hamad

Other
Contributors

Ahmed Gaafar
Ahmed Ibrahim Mohamed Sulaiman
Alsir Al-Sayed
Ashraf Abdalla
Azza Ahmed Abdel Aziz
Dafallah Hajj Ali
Dr Fatma Mostafa
Dr Mohammed Abdullah Al-Hussein
Dr Nahid Muhammad al-Hasan
Dr Sahar Rasoul
Dr. Rashid Mustafa Bakhit
El-Tadafuq organization
Iqbal Ayoub
Khalid Abdel Rahman
Locale
Mai Abusalih
Mazin Elrasheed
Mohamed Kamal
Mohammed Awad
Mohammed Ibrahim
Mohammed Osman
Montser Khair Monti
Mujahid Al-Doma
Mustafa Muiz
Noory Taha
Omer Eltigani
Prof. Fadwa Abdul Rahman Ali Taha
Prof. Osman Mahgoub Gaafar
Rafa Renas
Rebecca Lorins
Salih Abdel Rahman
Sari Omer
Shiroug Idris
Sidahmed Mohamed Al-Hassan
Sittana Badri
Snoop
Yousif Alshikh
Yousif Basheer Idris
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