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n boy s journal maryud and sabah morning in order to develop children s literacy 111 but because of diminishing support the numbers of such magazines and children s books decreased from 30 000 copies a week of the most popular magazine to a much lower number of such publications 112 in the 21st century sudanese comic strips and graphic storytelling have been enjoying a growing audience they are mainly published on social media but also in the form of magazines or during national comic competitions 113 as a political cartoonist living in the sudanese diaspora khalid albaih has become known for his social and political caricatures in arab and international online media 114 traditional and modern forms of sudanese theatre edit rituals and theatre like performances such as the zār rituals have been described by modern studies as part of ancient and traditional civilisations in sudan 115 during the 1930s ibrahim al abadi 1894 1980 created a play about an important sudanese resistance fighter against the turkish army el mek nimr and khaled abu al rous wrote a play about a village love story called tajouj 116 along with other sudanese or foreign plays they were produced at the national theatre of the time 117 in a period of flourishing cultural life in sudan from the 1960s and up to the restrictions of many public activities by the public order laws since 1989 foreign and sudanese theatre plays in the modern sense enjoyed a certain amount of popularity in khartoum 118 nevertheless the college of music and drama of the sudan university of science and technology has been offering studies and degrees since 1977 119 and together with the sudanese dramatists union has organized theatre festivals and workshops at the national theatre opened in 1959 in omdurman 120 anthologies of sudanese literature edit after the 2009 collection of short stories in french translation nouvelles du soudan several anthologies in english such as i know two sudans an anthology of creative writing from sudan and south sudan 121 the book of khartoum 48 literary sudans an anthology of literature from sudan and south sudan 122 or modern sudanese poetry an anthology 123 have made contemporary literature from sudan and south sudan accessible to readers in translation in addition banipal literary magazine published a special issue in 2016 on sudanese literature today 124 in 2020 the common literary magazine published 11 short stories by sudanese authors in english translation 125 apart from those names already mentioned above writers featured in these compilations are mohammad jamil ahmad emad blake nur al huda mohammed nur al huda ahmed al malik dan lukudu agnes ponilako kenyi a spencer mamoun eltlib 46 and others in his introduction to literary sudans an anthology of literature from sudan and south sudan taban lo liyong wrote 126 in this collection most writers are rebels against the system or fighting a kind of existential war third world artists during the decades of african independence from 1950 to 1970 were to assist the politicians in pushing for cultural revolution and independence but after seeing how the politicians play loose with the blank check we gave them it is high time the artists echoed the aspirations to democracy respect for human rights and true nationalistic independence with emphasis on economic independence and welfare for us all taban lo lyiong academic scholarship on sudanese literature and arabic language edit an outstanding sudanese scholar and literary critic with a long list of publications on poetry or other genres and in arabic in general was abdallah al tayyib 1921 2003 his primary field of study was the arabic language and its creative use in poetry one of his most notable works is a guide to understanding arabic poetry a massive opus written over thirty five years some of his collection of folk stories from sudan and africa have been translated into english al tayyib was also president of the arab language league of sudan and a member of the academy of the arabic language in cairo through his radio programmes on literature he contributed also to a wider appreciation of literature for people without access to written sources 127 another notable scholar on language and culture in sudan was awn alsharif qasim 1933 2006 among many other works he authored the sudanese encyclopedia of tribes and genealogies in seven volumes and 2628 pages a pioneer state of the art series of books about place or personal names and sudanese tribes their roots and origins 128 in 2024 sudanese scholar hashim mirghani was awarded the prestigious katara prize for arabic novel for his critical study the novel as a stage for identity debates and its reconstruction 129 several departments of the university of khartoum like the faculty of arts the institute of asian and african studies or of islamic studies publish academic scholarship relating to the history and present of literary culture in sudan 130 nonfiction and cultural journalism by sudanese writers edit the list of sudanese writers of nonfiction as another important form of narrative writing includes authors like abdullahi ahmed an na im 131 or sadiq al mahdi 132 known for their contributions to such topics as islamic thought politics or social issues in sudan addressing sudanese and other arab readers these are published in arabic although some publications such as essays academic scholarship interviews or other journalistic texts have also been translated into english 133 one of the sudanese online magazines focussing on sudanese culture and the close relationship of life in sudan and south sudan as well as with other east africa n neighbours is the bilingual online andariya magazine 134 135 see also edit african literature arabic literature modern arabic literature list of sudanese writers culture of sudan culture of south sudan literature music of sudan notes and references edit on the notion of a modern national literature in africa compare the 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