Journal

Each Sunday, a letter from DAR. It is sometimes a report from the week's news. Sometimes a portrait of one woman whose name I have learned. Sometimes a question I cannot yet answer. Always, the Sudanese women who can no longer write are the reason I write.

A letter from DAR. Sundays. In English, French, or Arabic. You can leave any time.

Recent

6 September 2026
When the United Nations corrects the map of Africa… who corrects the map of Sudan?
A legitimate question to the United Nations and the international media: where did the map that places Halaib and Shalateen inside Egypt come from? Correcting the size of a continent while leaving a border distortion in place is not correction — it is selection.
27 August 2026
Our mother Maryuma… When the question about a woman becomes a question about an entire homeland
One elderly woman in Al-Gezira became a story the whole country argued over. The harder question is the one nobody is counting: where are the Sudanese women who have disappeared?
21 August 2026
When one party to the war calls for dialogue: Who will dialogue with Al-Burhan?
The question is not whether Sudan needs dialogue. It is who decides who sits at the table — and whether a process designed by one party to the war can return power to the people.