I’ve not lived there since I was 6. My experience is doomscrolling the news and getting really anxious about getting a new citizenship ASAP. I have family there and they mostly moved outside the capital where the fighting is. Some are still in the capital. It’s hard to contact them. Last I’d heard of my cousin he was eating raw flour to survive. He’s a doctor in the military trapped in a place surrounded by fighting.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Where abouts do you reside now? What do you feel they overlook when Sudan is displayed visually or verbally discussed from the media.
Also for a pleasantry if someone said Poland was known for sausage, Germany for snitzel, U.S. for cheeseburgers, (all over generalized one off foods, not specific or defining) what would you say would be a food for Sudan?
droning_in_my_ears@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I live in Qatar. Will be moving to Germany soon hopefully.
I don’t really feel qualified to say what the media gets wrong about Sudan because like I said I didn’t grow up there and I’m not a political scientist. Sudan is not talked about much in the western media and when it is, it’s never good news. Usually because another coup or killing, and it’s more accurate than most media in the middle east. But if you want an example of western media getting something completely wrong here’s Fox News calling Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo a reformist. He’s a genocidal warlord with ties to Russian Wagner. I suspect that article is propaganda because he’s been known to hire PR firms to clean up his image.
Ok. Enough of the depressing reality. What food are we known for? I don’t know actually. We share some of our culture and foods with our much more popular northern neighbor Egypt, but that culture is mostly attributed to them. For example we also have pyramids but not many know that. We also make Falafel, ful, mahshi etc.
We do have many foods that only we make but it’s not known to outsiders. Usually Ramadan food: traditional stews eaten with gruels or fermented bread. There’s some traditional drinks too.
One of those stews, is a food other Arabs know because of a funny coincidence: part of its name in our dialect means “male whore” in other dialects.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The food sounds interesting. I’d love to go visit some time. As I’ve gotten older it seems I have lost that “someday I’ll go visit said place” spontaneity/hope for adventure. Born in 1989. I think it’s time I re-find that part of myself. If I make it there I’ll be sure to tell you a out the food. A nice falafel sounds good.
droning_in_my_ears@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Maybe wait a little while haha. This civil war is dragging on and we might be more than one country by the time it ends.