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Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir. Reuters

Sudanese President Plans to Attend U.N. AIDS Meeting, Challenging ICC

by Ahmed Younis | May 20, 2016 | Middle East

Khartoum- Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is challenging the International Criminal Court (ICC ) and planning to attend an AIDS conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York next month. The Sudanese presidency has announced that it applied for U.S. visas and is...

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Fuel pumps at a gas station are burned and toppled during protests over fuel subsidy cuts in Khartoum on September 25, 2013. (REUTERS/Stringer)

Sudanese opposition calls for civil disobedience as government raises wages

by Ahmed Younis | Sep 30, 2013 | Middle East

Khartoum and London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Sudanese government has said it will not retract its decision to cut fuel subsidies in response to the violent protests that began on September 23. Minister of Information Ahmed Bilal Othman said ending the fuel subsidies was...

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Debris lie on the ground as a child stands outside a home following heavy rains in Omdurman, some 30 kilometers northwest of the Sudanese capital Khartoum, on August 13, 2013. (AFP PHOTO/ASHRAF SHAZLY)

Sudan’s Eid Expressed through Social Media

by Ahmed Younis | Aug 13, 2013 | Media

If only Al-Mutanabi was in Khartoum on the morning of the first day of Eid to rewrite his poem “Eid! In what [sorry] state do you return, Eid!” The bitter irony of the poem is nothing compared to the current state of the Sudanese during Eid this year. They face rising...

Is there space for Americans in the Muslim Ummah?

by Ahmed Younis | Aug 27, 2011 | Opinion

What is the state of Muslim identity and fraternity among the global community of Muslims, also known as the Ummah? Whether in the context of counter-extremism and Islamophobia in the West or radical change in majority-Muslim societies, the role of a global Muslim...