(UN)doing Resistance - Three Decades of the Regime's Assault On the Arts in Sudan: Sudan
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When anthropologist Ruba El Melik and researcher/journalist Reem Abbas came together later in 2019 to birth the idea of this book, the political agreement that split power between the military and civilian powers was being celebrated as historical. Despite loud criticism from revolutionaries, the agreement's implementation was underway, not without challenges, but perhaps the shape and form of resistance was different, as it tried to grapple with the forced reality of the agreement.
The book describes in great detail how the effects of the Inqaz regime's tools of political Islam and authoritarianism wielded immense oppression that constricted arts, artists and infrastructures physically and psychologically.
In the deeply disturbing theme"Institutions", readers are taken on a whirlwind journey of fraught campus wars at universities waged by the Islamist regime's student bodies and the notorious National Intelligence and Security Service. The thorny issue of accountability - raised during the revolution and in modern turbulent times towards democracy - arises in this section.
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