#alaa awad

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- Alaa awad

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this is another list of palestinian fundraisers who urgently need our help to save themselves and their family. as for the unvetted fundraisers, please don't just pass them by — they need our help as well, and often have the lowest funds.

hadia (who needs surgery!) and her children, vetted by 90-ghost, €3,309/€50,000

rasha saad al-din, unvetted as of yet, €2,096/€50,000

ahmed khalil, vetted by 90-ghost, €1,045/€50,000

hamdi ayyad, unvetted as of yet, €415/€25,000 

safaa al khatib, #135 on the vetted gaza evacuation fundraiser list, €23,874/€35,000

ahmed awad and his elderly parents, vetted by association through save-hijazi-family2, €22,605/€25,000

mahmoud jehad, #190 on the bees and watermelons verified fundraiser list, $1,640/$25,000

aboud and family, unvetted as of yet, £130/£50,000 (EXTREMELY LOW ON FUNDS)

mohammed ayyad, unvetted as of yet, €4,158/€38,000

alaa and her family, vetted by 90-ghost, €9,081/€100,000

samer abu ras, #196 on the vetted gaza evacuation fundraiser list, kr135,824/kr450,000 (1$=10kr)

mahmoud baalou, vetted by 90-ghost, $7,886/$50,000

kareman dohan, vetted by 90-ghost, $7,407/$50,000

israa alazaiza, #236 on the vetted gaza evacuation fundraiser list, $6,763/$48,000

jamil mohammed and 19 family members, unvetted as of yet, $100/$100,000 (EXTREMELY LOW ON FUNDS)

hamza al-absi, vetted by nabulsi, €3,149/€21,000

youssef al-habeel, whose son has a severe respiratory illness, #406 on the vetted butterflyeffect project list, €10,740/€20,000

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❛ 𝖎𝖋 𝖎 𝖑𝖔𝖔𝖐 𝖇𝖆𝖈𝖐, 𝖎 𝖆𝖒 𝖑𝖔𝖘𝖙. ❜

MEEREEN, AROUND 300AC.

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will be edited frequently. daenerys stormborn quick digital sketch to bring attention to the people in palestine.

ALL EYES ON PALESTINE.

people in need:

@d-imtthal @salman-1987 @mohammedswierh2 @huda-yousef @mahmoud0qassas @siraj2024 @amanyayyad74 @khaled-mother @ahmed-ziad @bilal-salah0 @mahmoud-sharif2 @familyetaf1234567

FUNDRAISERS:

[gryficowa]

Boycott!

Now that I have your attention:

[la-solemulo]

A Palestinian Woman Wearing a Traditional Ensemble II

Ensemble in traditional Palestinian textiles; With applique, ornaments and other accessories

2023 photograph by Awad Jaghoub

A Palestinian Woman Wearing a Traditional Ensemble I

Please donate if you can: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-alaas-family-escape-gaza-live-a-safe-life

[workersolidarity]

[ 📹 An overnight air raid by the Zionist occupation army targeted the residential home of the Awad family, in the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, resulting in the deaths of 6 civilians, including a baby, while dozens of others were wounded in the strike. ]

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GENOCIDE OF PALESTINIANS CONTINUES FOR THE 204TH DAY AS ISRAELI OCCUPATION FORCES BOMB MORE CIVILIAN HOMES

On the 204th day of "Israel's" ongoing special genocide operation in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) committed a total of 4 new massacres of Palestinian families, resulting in the deaths of 32 civilians, mostly women and children, while another 69 others were wounded over the previous 24-hours.

It should be noted that Gaza's Ministry of Health, along with the entirety of the healthcare system in the Gaza Strip, have been pummeled by the Israeli occupation's aggression, causing extensive damage to the systems of monitoring the deaths of Palestinians in the Israeli genocide, and are no longer capable of keeping an accurate tally of the number of civilians killed.

Many of those killed in Israeli airstrikes remain buried under the rubble and are unable to be recovered due to continued Zionist aggression, which, along with extensive damage to local infrastructure, has left the official tally of Palestinians killed grossly undercounted.

Meanwhile, in the United States, protests continue on University campuses across the country, with tens of thousands of students demonstrating to call for divestment and sanctions against the Israeli entity.

In response to these protests, two American Congressman, one Democrat and one Republican, have introduced a bipartisan bill to force colleges to allow supervision by an official "antisemitism" monitor on campus.

The official name for the bill is "COLOMBIA" (College Oversight and Legal Updates Mandating Bias Investigations and Accountability) Act.

Colleges which are accused of "allowing antisemitism to fester" would have a monitor appointed by the Secretary of Education who would supervise actions taken by universities to tamp down "antisemitic" sentiments.

"Failure to comply the monitorship would result in a loss of Federal funds," a press release by the offices of Congressmember Ritchie Torres, a cosponsor of the bill, said.

The second cosponsor of the COLOMBIA protest-suppression bill is Rockland County Republican, Mike Lawler of New York.

In further news from Gaza, the Ministry of Health made an announcement on Saturday stating that all of the citizens of the Gaza Strip are drinking unsafe water, putting the Palestinian population at risk of disease and death.

The Ministry pointed out that the public health laboratory has long been shut down due to the Zionist aggression, and the ministry remains incapable of examining drinking water in the Gaza Strip.

The Ministry also slammed the Israeli occupation's blocking of chlorine from entering the enclave, leaving the Health Ministry unable to treat drinking water in Gaza, forcing the entire civilian population to drink unsafe water and putting their lives at risk.

Gaza's Ministry of Health also said the suffering of Gaza's population is compounded by the difficulty of obtaining water following the Israeli occupation's destruction of Gaza's desalinization plants.

In Beit Lahiya for instance, in the northern Gaza Strip, the city's mayor, Alaa Al-Attar, reported that the Israeli occupation army has destroyed 70% of water wells in the city, along with 50% of the city's sewage pumps, and has destroyed more than 80km of water and sewage networks, resulting in a humanitarian catastrophe for the local population.

In further tragic news, an infant who's life was saved after being removed from her mother's womb her death in an Israeli airstrike, has died herself from complications.

According to several reports in the local Palestinian media, as well as an Al-Jazeera report, the infant baby, named Sabreen al-Rouh Jouda, was rescued from her mother's womb after an Israeli airstrike hit their home, killing the unborn child's entire family, including her mother who carried her at the time, along with her father, and her young sister.

The infant Rouh died in hospital on Thursday and was buried with the rest of her family in Gaza.

Meanwhile, the massacre of civilians in Gaza continues unabated, with airstrikes and artillery shelling targeting residential homes and buildings across the northern, central and southern Gaza Strip, resulting in dozens of casualties over the last day.

In Gaza's north, Zionist gunboats fired live bullets from heavy machine-guns towards the fisherman's port of Gaza City, while at the same time shelling the outskirts of the Al-Shati Refugee Camp with artillery.

In another gruesome massacre, Zionist warplanes bombed near the Faisal School in the Japanese neighborhood of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, killing three Palestinian civilians and wounding a number of others.

Similarly, occupation fighter jets bombed the Sawarha area, west of the Nuseirat Camp, in the central Gaza Strip, martyring two civilians and wounding several others.

The slaughter of Palestinians continued with another Zionist airstrike targeting a civilian house in Rafah City, in the south of Gaza, killing at least 6 civilians.

That strike was immediately followed by two more airstrikes on residential homes in Rafah, resulting in the deaths of 8 more civilians, mostly women and children, and wounding dozens of others.

In yet another tragedy, Zionist occupation forces destroyed a residential home in the al-Sultan neighborhood of the Nuseirat Refugee Camp, in the central Gaza Strip, leading to the death of 4 civilians, including a baby girl.

Elsewhere, Zionist warplanes bombed yet another inhabited residential building, also in the Nuseirat Camp, killing 4 citizens and wounding at least 30 others.

The occupation army continued its terror with the launch of repeated firebelts targeting the Al-Mughraqa area of central Gaza, while Gaza City in the north was hammered with a multitude of airstrikes, several of which focused on the Shuja'iyya neighborhood where three residential homes were targeted.

The Zionist army also obliterated a house in the Al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City, killing 3 civilians, including a woman and her child.

Previously, an occupation airstrike that targeted a residential building belonging to the Shawa family, housing displaced civilians, was scoured by Civil Defense crews who managed to recover the bodies of three civilians, including a child, while several others who were wounded were taken to Al-Ahli Arab National Hospital.

Zionist warplanes also heavily bombed the Al-Zawayda area of central Gaza, targeting civilian homes in multiple intense raids, killing a Palestinian civilian and wounding a number of others.

A multitude of civilians were also wounded following occupation artillery shelling which targeted agricultural lands in the Sawarha area, west of the Nuseirat Camp, while occupation fighter jets continue firing firebelts to the northwest of Khan Yunis, in Gaza's south.

Occupation aircraft similarly targeted residential buildings in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.

As a result of "Israel's" ongoing special genocide operation in the Gaza Strip, the current death toll among the local population has surged yet again, now exceeding 34,388 Palestinians killed, including over 14'690 children and 9'680 women, while another 77'437 others have been wounded since the start of the current round of Zionist aggression, beginning with the events of October 7th, 2023.

April 27th, 2024.

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[lowpoly-cat]

Lists of palestinian gofundme fundraisers that i got asked to share:

All of these gofundmes are for families, even if it isnt written so.

links highlighted in red have the least funds.

Amal Musa: 790 euro out of 53,000

Abed Rahman: 8,000 dollar out of 50,000

Sohad Mahmoud: 9,300 euro out of 20,000

Montaha: 340 euro out of 60,000

Osama Basil: 2,600 euro out of 15,000

Mohammed Al-khaldi: 350 euro out of 20,000

Omar Al-Habil: 490 dollar out of 35,000

Ahmed Al-Habil: 2,700 euro out of 50,000

Ahmed Matar: 650 euro out of 64,000

Dr. Farhat's family: 7,990 dollar out of 29,500

Nadine’s family: 540 dollar out of 25,000

Alaa’s family: 9,400 euros out of 100,000

Nada Al-Farra: 1,100 euros out of 20,000

Hassan’s family: 800 euros out of 50,000

Lina Khames: 4,300 euros out of 100,000

Ahmed Awad: 23,000 euro out of 40,000

Mohammed Almadhoun: 7,000 euro out of 50,000

Osama Al-Anqar: 2,700 pound out of 50,000

Aya Yasser: 880 USD out of 20,000

Nedaa’s family: 8,500 pound out of 25,000

Rasha Saad Al-Din: 2,200 euro out of 50,000

Ola Ferwana: 4,600 euro out of 35,000

Youssef’s family: 7,100 USD out of 15,000

Alaa Al khateeb: 28,000 pound out of 56,000

Khaled Smeer: 627 AUD out of 60,000

Abdel Muti Al-Habil: 12,000 euro out of 25,000

Mohammed Helles: 3,000 euro out of 45,000

Ahmed Al Zaee: 25,000 CAD out of 50,000

Youssef Al-Habeel: 13,000 euro out of 20,000

Haya’s family: 86,000 euro out of 100,000

Ahmed Alanqar: 5,800 euro out of 30,000

Reham Yasr Al Soufi: 4,400 AUD out of 40,000

Ahmed Shaqqoura: 30,000 euro out of 45,000

[t-spriggsy]

Hello! I've seen a few Palestinian families on tik-tok asking for support/to use audio's/use filters/ etc. I have done those things and encourage you to do the same!

Obviously, this is not everyone. But if there is someone I missed, I encourage you to boost a family(or families!) yourself. If you cannot donate now, please save to come back when you can and share this in the meantime!

Family: Video : GFM

Haiam Hammo Family| Her Video | GFM €11,785 of €50,000

2. Nagham Na's Family| Her Video | GFM $9,762 of $45,000

3. Hasania Family | His Video | GFM $621 of $40,000

4. Nour Tayseer Family | Her Video | GFM £9,391 of £75,000

5. Abuthaher Family | Their Video | GFM €117,117 of €165,000

6. Rawan's Family | Her Video | GFM $12,515 of $24,000

7. Samah's Family | Her Video | GFM €41,814 of €50,000

8. Al-Swaisi Family | His Video | GFM €81,178 of €100,000

9. Majd Awad Family | His Video | GFM $28,574 of $50,000

10. Muhammad's Family | His Video | GFM $34,841 of $50,000

11. Osama Qunoo | His Video | GFM €22,977 raised of €90,000

12. Ibrahim's Family | His Video | GFM $69,459 CAD of $150,000

13. Mustafa's Family | His Video | GFM £6,155 of £10,000

14. Dalia Al-Ghalayini's Family | Her Video | GFM $15,328 of $30,000

15. Hind's Family | Her Video | GFM €273 raised of €45,000 target

16. Shahd's Family | Her Video | GFM €5,925 raised of €30,000

17. Fatima's Family | Her Video | GFM €58,014 raised of €80,000

18. Aya's Family of 27 people | Her video | GFM €39,758 of €250,000

19. Alaa's Family | Her Video | GFM $20,271 AUD of $60,000 goal

20. Fawzia's Family | Her Video | GFM $37,093 CAD of $50,000

21. Mohammed's Family | His Video | GFM €15,945 of €42,500

22. Ayman's Family | His Video | GFM £32,175 of £50,000

23. Majdy's Family | His Video | GFM €49,620 of €55,000

24. Saleh's Family | His Video | GFM £8,281 of £40,000

25. Rawan's Family | Her Video | GFM $12,515 of $24,000

26. Tasneem's Family | Her Video | GFM €43,376 of €70,000

27. Muhammad's Family | His Video | GFM €13,956 of €100,000

28. Elham Saad's Family | Her Video | GFM €13,967 of €25,000

29. Insherah's Family | Her Video | GFM €10,668 of €45,000

30. Faizan's Family | His Video | PayPal

31. Ameer & Tamin's Family | Her Video | GFM $56,700 CAD of $70,000

32. Hadeel's Family | Her Video | GFM $50,109 CAD of $110,000

33. Asm's Family | Her Video | GFM $290 of $ 50,000

34. Anas's Family | His Video | GFM $139,272 of $175,700

35. Yasmin's Family | Her Video | GFM $34,570 of $50,000

36. Hala's Family | Her Video | GFM €12,402 of €50,000

37. Mohammed Quno's Family | His Video | GFM $5,405 of $25,000 38. Aboud's Family! | GFM €475 raised of €25,000 goal Aboud has reached out to me personally! Please send him some support in addition to the rest of the family.

And as always, daily clicks!

The best action is direct action. Lets help these families!!!! Please!!!

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On 26 October, the Palestinian Ministry of Health released the list of names of Palestinians killed since 7 October. Among them, from the al-Najjar family, are:

Fatima Khalil Mahmoud (74);

Fahmi Muhammad Hamdan (74) and his wife;

Fahmi's son Muhammad Fahmi Muhammad (41), pictured above on the left, his wife, and their children Omar Muhammad Fahmi (14), Abdul Rahman Muhammad Fahmi (13), Fatima Muhammad Fahmi (5), Yusuf Muhammad Fahmi (4), and Anas Muhammad Fahmi (3);

and Fahmi's son Firas Fahmi Muhammad (36) and his children Fatima Firas Fahmi (10), Obaida Firas Fahmi (8), Aleman Firas Fahmi (5), and Sarah Firas Fahmi (3);

Hamdan Hamdan Ahmed (56) and his children Ehteram Hamdan Hamdan (34) and Muhammad Hamdan Hamdan (17);

Ayman Shaaban Shukri (55), pictured above on right;

Hanan Ahmed Muhammad (55) and her brother Muhammad Ahmed Muhammad;

Zahra Ibrahim Muhammad (52);

Muhammad Salman Shaldan (52); 

Amal Hamada Khalil (50);

Suhaila Hussein Hassan (45) and her sister Samira Hussein Hassan (58);

Ramadan Ibrahim Suleiman (45);

Fathia Abdel Hafez Khalil (44);

Fateen Fawzi Muhammad (42) and her siblings Mazen Fawzi Muhammad (34), Bara'a Fawzi Muhammad (28), and Soha Fawzi Muhammad;

Sawsan Sobhi Abdel Salam (41);

Haneen Saad Mustafa (34);

Khulud Atta Muhammad (34);

Dua Bashir Abdel Karim (32);

Salman Amin Salman (32);

Samah Khader Saleh (30);

Mahmud Talal Awad (28);

Muhammad Shaldan Salman (26) and his siblings Mahmud Shaldan Salman (25), Rawan Shaldan Salman (22), and Ruba Shaldan Salman (17);

Ghada Nabil Hassan (26) and her sibling Farah Nabil Hassan (10);

Afnan Zaki Jumaa (25); 

Farah Suleiman Salman (24) and their siblings Nadim Suleiman Salman (20), Yazan Suleiman Salman (14), and Safa Suleiman Salman (1);

Abdul Moin Salman (23);

Rana Ahmed Abdel Majeed (23);

Muhammad Ahmed Mahmoud (16);

Sama Fahd Musa (16) and her siblings Hikmat Fahd Musa (13) and Muhammad Fahd Musa (9);

Shahid Muhammad Hussein (14) and his sibling Waaed Muhammad Hussein (12);

Mahmoud Ahmed Saleh (12);

Salma Muhammad Rasmi (6);

Obaida Muhammad Rajaa (6) and her sister Toulin Muhammad Rajaa (4);

Moeen Suleiman Moeen (6) and his siblings Jude Suleiman Moeen (4), Mihraman Suleiman Moeen (1), and Zayn al-Din Suleiman Moeen (less than a year old);

Aya Salah al-Din Hamdan (4) and her brother Sanad Salah al-Din Hamdan (3);

Omar Ahmed Nawaf (3) and his sister Aya Ahmed Nawaf (1);

Ayed Ismail, his wife, and their three children, including Juri Ayed Ismail (1);

Bassel, an engineer and a father to four children who is remembered for being "extremely talented" and "very generous with people;"

Lubna Muhammad Youssef (23);

Nisreen Muhammad Muhammad (less than a year old);

Hassan Mahmoud Ibrahim (33) and his children Adam Hassan Mahmoud, Ali Hassan Mahmoud, and Jana Hassan Mahmoud (2);

Afaf Muhammad Abdel Mohsen (49);

Arkan Fawzi Salman and his sisters Rana Fawzi Salman (39) and Lauren Fawzi Salman;

Ibtisam Ibrahim Hamdan (61);

Raed Hamada Muhammad (24);

Tariq Musa Suleiman (38);

Muhammad Abdelkarim Muhammad (46) and his sons Abdelkarim Muhammad Abdelkarim (15) and Wasim Muhammad Abdelkarim (13);

Sanaa Kayan Hamada (39);

Abdullah Ayesh Abdul (70) and his daughter Shaima Abdullah Ayesh (34);

Essam Muhammad Essam (10) and his sister Sarah Muhammad Essam (11);

Subhia Kamel Ibrahim (59);

Shaer Walid Hassan (37) and his sister Rawa Walid Hassan (28);

Wadih Yahya Hassan (33), who was martyred by iof forces during their storming of Hebron;

Shadi Nasser Muhammad (22);

Tuhfa Hassan Hussein (22);

Yusuf Mahmud Mustafa (51) and his daughter Farida Yusuf Mahmud (32);

Islam Ibrahim Saeed (37);

Alaa Ziad Ismail (33);

Muhammad Awad Ismail (36);

Hudhayfah Tayseer Ayesh (33), a journalist;

and Amal Hamada Othman (2).

Counselor Muhammad Fahmi al-Najjar, who lived with and was martyred with 16 members of his family, including his wife and children, was a lawyer and member of the Board of the National Authority for Documentation and Prosecution of Occupation Crimes. His house was directly bombed. 

Their relative, Ramy Abdu, states that Fatima Khalil Mahmoud (Mukhalalti) and Fahmi Muhammad Hamdan al-Najjar were judges. Firas Fahmi Muhammad al-Najjar, whose wife and children were also martyred, was an engineer. 

You can read more about the human lives lost in Palestine on the Martyrs of Gaza Twitter account and on my blog.

[cheragh-jadu]

A Special Kind (Artisant) of Street Art! Alaa Awad

[steep1253o]

PLEASE HELP THESE FOUR PALESTINIAN FAMILIES EVACUATE OUT OF PALESTINE!!

Here's four fundraisers set up for Palestinian families aiming to evacuate to Egypt once the borders reopen. Please donate even a little to the campaigns and share them widely!

Ahmed - $9,735 raised out of $30,000:

AbdelMuti - $10,935 raised out of $25,000:

Mohamed - $15,040 raised out of $20,000:

Asil - $14,532 raised out of $50,000:

[123ypu]

More Palestinian gofundme's I was asked to share:

These are all Verified so, Please do not hesitate to share and donate if you can.

@ahmed-ziad: Verified by @/nabulsi. He currently has £8,678 of £30,000.

2. @ahmedabuomar : A family of five struggling to aquire their basic necessities. Theya re currently raising money to evacuate. Verified by @apollos-olives & @malcriada. They only have €1,656 of €30,000.

3. @mohammedaldeeb : Run by palestinian medical professional, this gofundme is currenlty raising money to pay for housing expenses in Egypt.

Verified by @90-ghost. They currently have €34,508 of a €55,000 goal.

4. @mahmoud0hilles : They are currently raising money to help a family of over 40 people escape Gaza. Verified by @nabulsi They only have €7,631 of a €50,000 as of right now.

5. @save-hijazi-family2 : Support Mohammed and his elderly parents, all of whom are ill Verified by @90-ghost . They only have €7,050 of their €20,000 goal.

6. @abuadamfamily : Run by @mohammedalanqer for this family.

Verified by @nabulsi @90-ghost , @sar-soor , @fairuzfan

Again, please consider sharing or donating to these gofundmes.

[gryficowa]

Boycott!

It's weird coming back to digital after two months of not drawing… Tia…

Now that I have your attention:

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Recently I've been watching fan animations from GF, you know, related to Bill's book, because of the boycott of Disney and the fact that they don't sell them in my language, so you know, I have to cope somehow

(Bill the kid looks so cute that you can forget that he wanted to kill two children and turned many of them into statues to make a throne out of them)

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From Streets to Symbols: Unveiling the Power of Graffiti, Art, Music, and Culture in Protest Movements – A Spotlight on the Sudanese Revolution

Have you ever found yourself associating a dance move with a particular era or linking a pose to a significant cultural moment? Such connections often transcend the boundaries of the physical, seeping into the realms of art, music, and cultural symbols. In Sudan, the evolution of symbols during the revolution was nothing short of poetic. The Sudanese revolution of 2019 serves as a compelling canvas where these forms of expression converged, giving rise to the Kandaka with the white toub—a powerful symbol of resistance that echoed the collective voices of a nation yearning for change.

Graffiti and Street Art as Voices on Walls

During Sudan’s 2019 revolution, as people mobilized across the country with sit-ins, marches, boycotts, and strikes, artists helped capture the country’s discontent and solidify protesters’ resolve (How Art Helped Propel Sudan’s Revolution, n.d.). What started as protests against rising food and fuel costs turned into a coup where millions marched to overthrow al-Bashir after 30 years in power.

Artists became an integral part of the months-long sit-in at the military headquarters in Khartoum, known as the heart of the revolution. This expression of creativity was both a result of loosening restrictions on freedom of expression and a catalyst for further change.

Artists throughout Sudan used graffiti to spur conversations about the trajectory of the country and also used murals to share information about dates and times of protests. Jonathan Pinckney, program officer and research lead for USIP’s program on nonviolent action, pointed out that art has played a role in many major nonviolent struggles to create a shared vocabulary (How Art Helped Propel Sudan’s Revolution, n.d.).

Hussein Merghani’s watercolor of hundreds of people from Atbara traveling to join the sit-in at the military headquarters in Khartoum in April 2019.

A mural by Galal Yousif near the sit-in site reads “you were born free, so live free.” (Sari Ahmed Awad)

Visual Arts and Popular Culture: The Kandaka and the White Toub:

In a society where patriarchy and male dominance prevail, it's quite surprising that a woman emerged as a symbol of protest. The kandake, breaking stereotypes, became an iconic figure, showcasing the resilience of Sudanese women who have long been leaders in the country’s revolutions. Since 1989, when Omar al-Bashir seized power, women faced curtailed rights under vaguely defined moral and penal codes, notably the 1991 Public Order Laws dictating women's public conduct, movement, and even clothing. Despite these oppressive measures, women persisted in their fight against al-Bashir's rule, playing a pivotal role in mobilizing protests.

This resilience found a remarkable face in a young student named Alaa Salah, captured in a moment of protest wearing a white toub and traditional jewelry. Standing atop a car, she passionately chanted revolutionary poetry, expressing the collective frustrations: “They imprisoned us in the name of religion, burned us in the name of religion … killed us in the name of religion,” met with the resounding response of “revolution” from the crowd (Ismail and Elamin 2019). This powerful image swiftly went viral in Sudan, becoming a catalyst for countless Sudanese artworks, ranging from political caricatures to paintings to graffiti on Khartoum's streets.

What makes this image truly iconic is the symbolism embedded in the white toub—a garment worn by women of all classes, considered a democratic attire that doesn't conform to strict piety rules promoted by Islamists. Urban upper- and middle-class women, by embracing the toub, transcended ethnic and social differences, actively promoting unity. The resonance of this image extended beyond its visual impact, inspiring a wave of artistic expressions that echoed the collective call for change on the streets of Khartoum.

The Digital Canvas: Social Media as the New Protest Wall

When delving into the role of digital communities and social media in amplifying protests, particularly within Sudan, one cannot overlook the pivotal role online communication played during the revolution. However, these efforts faced substantial hurdles due to government-initiated internet outages and blockages targeting key sites.

Despite these challenges, the #SudanUprising hashtag emerged as a crucial tool, enabling people to stay connected with the diaspora and providing a real-time feed of events. This hashtag echoed resoundingly across various digital platforms, effectively transforming cyberspace into a dynamic virtual protest ground.

As the Kandaka and the white toub began to capture hearts on social media, the digital realm evolved into a powerful conduit for spreading awareness and mobilizing global support. The viral nature of these symbols transcended geographical boundaries, forging a united global community in solidarity with Sudan's impassioned fight for justice. Journalists, activists, and human rights groups closely followed #SudanUprising, receiving updates in English, while international organizations such as the UN and Amnesty unequivocally condemned the attacks on the protesters.

During the persisting blackout, more details about the tragic June 3 attack unfolded, revealing a grim toll – over 100 lives lost, including 26-year-old engineer Mohamed Mattar. In a poignant tribute, Mattar’s family and friends changed their profile pictures to blue, his favorite color. This simple yet powerful act evolved into #BlueForSudan, swiftly transforming into a global movement to honor and stand in solidarity with all the victims.

Renowned figures such as American singer and actress Rihanna and Nigerian artist Davido joined the chorus of celebrities and high-profile artists who utilized their platforms to shed light on the crisis, further propelling the momentum of awareness online. This vividly underscores the profound impact of virality in shaping public opinion and underscores the critical importance of social media in enhancing visibility and fostering global support for protests. The viral image of the Kandaka served as a catalyst, creating a wave that stirred widespread calls to action.

Navigating Change and Resilience Through the Digital Evolution of Expression

Looking back at how graffiti, art, music, and culture unfolded during the Sudanese revolution, it's clear these expressions aren't confined to physical spaces – they evolve and echo on digital stages. The Kandaka in the white toub isn't just an image; it's a powerful symbol, showing how art and culture shape stories and bring people together. In today's world, hashtags become anthems, and digital communities amplify calls for change. The Sudanese revolution teaches us about the enduring strength of creativity in tough times. The Kandaka's journey from streets to screens, from local to global, shows us how art can spark change and resilience in the face of challenges.

References

How art helped propel Sudan’s revolution. (n.d.). United States Institute of Peace. https://www.usip.org/blog/2020/11/how-art-helped-propel-sudans-revolution

Roussi, A., & Lonardi, M. (2021, July 6). Art on the front lines of a changing Sudan. Al Jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/6/30/art-on-the-front-lines-of-a-changing-sudan

From white Teyab to pink Kandakat: Gender and the 2018-2019 Sudanese Revolution. (n.d.). Journal of Public and International Affairs. https://jpia.princeton.edu/news/white-teyab-pink-kandakat-gender-and-2018-2019-sudanese-revolution

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Kamala Ibrahim Ishag: States of Oneness from Abdelrahim Kattab on Vimeo.

Short Documentary with the Sudanese artist Kamala Ibrahim Ishag for her solo exhibition: States of Oneness, at the Serpentine Galleries.

Director and Producer - Suzannah Mirghani Cinematographer - Khalid Awad Editors - Abdelrahim Kattab and Suzannah Mirghani Sound Mixing and Colour Grading - Abdelrahim Kattab Production Company - Klozium Studios Camera Assist - Abdalbagi Alameen Gaffer and Sound Recordist - Burhan Tame Production Manager - Alaa Aboualyousr Driver - Abdallah Noor Original Music Composer - Sulaf Elyas Arabic Subtitle Translation - Amin Isaac Content Producer, Serpentine - Fiona Glen Senior Editor and Curator of Editorial Projects, Serpentine - Hanna Girma