Sudan – Arabic Communities

Hamid Bejeen Interview conducted by Thao Nguyen and Zaid Khatib Listen to an excerpt here:   In July 2013, Hamid Bejeen became a refugee when he fled his Sudanese homeland to seek asylum in Egypt. Though by 2013 the long-lasting civil war in Sudan had technically ended, his departure is another testament of its ongoing […]

  “Right now we are forgetting our past, we think about future what will happen to our country and our family? They are still waiting there they have to return back to our village. They have to start new life in our village. We will go there to help t them. Right now they are […]

Remembering the Past; Rebuilding the Future The refugee experience is not linear; it is an accumulation of experiences and memories, looping again and again in the reliving and the retelling and the remembering; it is disjointed, split open, and put back again the best it can be. One representation is visual, such as the map […]