tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14948874140624180562024-03-13T09:17:21.500-07:00Zoulcolm Xyou forgot that when your free it's multiplied indefinitely
By the struggle that be the struggle I see
To socialistically unite the third world countries
Expose hypocrisy in Americas democracy
Sloppily obsessed with stopping me cause I speak prophecy
Trample and dismantle your capitalist philosophy
The same way I stomp the conquering rap monopoly
And I'm not a fucking prophet
But that's the fucking prophecyAhmad DZAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12888511595118330870noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494887414062418056.post-52921882991906744642012-03-22T01:20:00.003-07:002012-03-22T01:56:08.727-07:00Meeting The WorldTonight was the inauguration party of the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/narconews.com/Issue67/article4534.html">School of Authentic Journalism</a>, I filled its fun-to-fill application in December 2011 (you can read my essay <a href="http://zoulcolmx.blogspot.mx/2012/02/damned-dams.html">here</a>), of course I knew how amazing it will be by reading about the previous classes, but tonight after hearing about 70 people introducing themselves, I cannot even find words to describe the awesomeness. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I remember the first time I started steadily writing is after I read George Orwell’s essay “<a href="http://orwell.ru/library/essays/wiw/english/e_wiw">Why I Write</a>”. That was in 2005, the same year I graduated from high school with a pretty good average, when you’re from Sudan and you get such a degree you’re expected by your immediate and extended family to become an engineer or a doctor, I applied and got accepted to Sudan University’s Electrical Engineering, one of the best engineering schools in Sudan, not so many people know that I merely chose that because I had a childhood fantasy of becoming like Judy Foster in <a href="http://www.blogger.com/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_%28film%29">Contact</a>, years later I realized I was fascinated by her story and not her job. Strange enough is the fact that the guy, who directed Contact, is the same guy who directed two other childhood favorite films of mine –I should probably note that I lived my childhood in Saudi Arabia-, Forrest Gump and Castaway. I began writing poetry and rapping also around that time, I’ve been listening to Rap music for over a decade of my life, printing lyrics and reciting them at my house was my fun and that’s how I learned English by the way. I was enjoyed what some rappers identify as “audio films”, in fact looking back now, the first track I recorded was more this kind, you can check it out <a href="http://zoulcolmx.blogspot.mx/2009/09/sudanese-hip-hop.html">here</a>.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Long story short, in 2010, an opportunity that I’ve never dreamt of emerged; the Goethe Cultural Center in Khartoum offered a 6 weeks intensive workshop on Documentary Filmmaking, I applied but for some reasons I was accepted as a “listener”, the workshop was conducted by Kasim Alabd, an Iraqi-British filmmaker who I’m so grateful to because he decided to include me as a listener and I got to participate in other student’s works and not do one of my own, comes 2011 and the Goethe Institute launched the project Sudan Film Factory a great initiative led by the Sudanese artist Telal Afifi, and I got to participate and work on a story of my choice, and it was screened in January 2012.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Why Am I telling all of this? Well, up until tonight I have always had doubts that I might’ve made a mistake and disappointed my family and future by dropping off engineering even though I have the positive support from most of my friends, but tonight I realized how proud I am that I’ve done so, so many boys and girls I got to meet at the school of authentic journalism have amazing and interesting backgrounds, and so many of them love telling video stories and also so many of them despise “institutionalized education”, and they all want to earn a living doing what they love. I feel so empowered after hearing all of their stories, and I can’t wait to get to know all of them better.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I know for sure, if my government finds out about my participation in the School of Authentic Journalism, they will call me a spy, an agent, an advocate of the west, a traitor, etc. they’re just so evil that they cannot see the beauty that laid within the walls of a Mexico City restaurant tonight, the beauty that will continue to be an inspiration to me and to the other students for the rest of our lives, because no matter what colors our skins are, what languages we speak, what faith we believe in, we all want a better home, and a better Earth.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">In February 2012 a couple of friends and I established a media production company in Khartoum, I wanted to name it <a href="http://wysinger.homestead.com/apedemek.html">Apedemek</a> after the Nubian lion god of Ancient Meroe, the ministry of commerce didn’t like the name and we eventually had to settle with the name <span style="font-style: italic;">Tashawor</span>, I’m gonna go back to Sudan, stronger and more determined to do what I love and to build with my old and new friends “the Sudan that we’ve been dreaming of daily”<span style="font-style: italic;">(1)</span>.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_-Bw44SRBMk/T2rozfLpq8I/AAAAAAAAAIw/FfTmDSz9xdg/s1600/2012-03-21%2B14.44.20.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_-Bw44SRBMk/T2rozfLpq8I/AAAAAAAAAIw/FfTmDSz9xdg/s400/2012-03-21%2B14.44.20.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5722642247768976322" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Gracias</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></p><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">(1): a line from a poem by the Sudanese revolutionary Poet Mahjoub Sharif</span></span>Ahmad DZAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12888511595118330870noreply@blogger.com81tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494887414062418056.post-46147877309445276312012-02-17T14:28:00.002-08:002012-02-17T15:10:31.939-08:00Damned Dams<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 21px; "><b><span >This was an essay for a course I applied to in December.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 21px; " ><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 21px; " ><b><br /></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><u><span style="line-height: 115%; " >Damned Dams<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%; " >27 December, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><u><span style="line-height: 115%; "><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none" > </span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 115%; " >“It is better for the Sudanese people to experience the rule of the religious mania group, it will be a fruitful experience as this group will expose the falsehood of religious slogans, it will control Sudan politically and economically even if by means of arms. And it will put Sudan through bitterness and strife, and eventually strife will hit among the groups themselves and they will be uprooted from Sudan”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><!--[if !supportLists]--><span ><span style="line-height: 115%; ">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="line-height: 115%; ">Mahmoud Mohammed Taha in a speech in 1977, he is a Sudanese Muslim reformer and mystic, considered by some as a Sudanese Gandhi, he was executed by Nimiri’s regime when Mahmoud peacefully protested against Shari’aa Laws.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="line-height: 115%; " ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 115%; " >It has been clear that Sudan will not see a bright future unless the government of the National Congress Party (Formerly known as the National Islamic Front) is stripped of power and replaced by pluralistic democratic civil society to guarantee the Sudanese people their basic rights and sustainable peace and development. the brutality of the NCP/NIF inflicted upon the Sudanese people after their 1989 military coup nearly eradicated such vision from the minds of Sudanese people, in addition to its investment in ignorance, NCP/NIF regime used Islamic sloganeering to portray itself as the protector of Islam and views those who attempt to oppose it as infidels. But after their 20 years old holy war with the South ended with a peace agreement, it became clear that all of the martyrdom propaganda they heavily used in the 1990’s was nothing but a big lie, and with the exposure of their deeply rooted corruption, people are starting to realize that all they’re left with is fear, and more people are breaking it day after day. With the power of the internet and new media, information is no longer suffocated by authorities. In 2007, the people of Kajbar town revolted against the building of a new dam that was going to repeat the tragedy of President Abboud and President Abdulnasir’s deal to build Al-Sad Al-Aali Dam which drowned not only the lands but also the ancient history of the Nubians of northern Sudan and forced them to seek refuge in other parts of the country, authorities wasn’t happy with the people’s attempts to stop the new dam construction and responded violently killing 4 young protesters with live bullets.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 115%; " >In 2009, the government of NCP/NIF started constructing another dam in the north, named Meroe, and was used by the president Omer Al-Bashir as a “we don’t need you” message to the “Americans, Israelis, and Zionists” after the ICC issued arrest warrant against him. The people of Al-Manasir were promised compensations which they’ve been waiting for ever since. On November 17<sup>th</sup>, they declared a protest and started a sit-in in Ad-Damer city in northern Sudan that is still going until the hour of typing this article. It sure gathered momentum, as the number of demonstrators kept increasing, videos and pictures were uploaded and views by millions outside the “Justice Square” as the Manasir themselves named the location of the sit-in. Activists in Khartoum started sending support messages to the demonstrators in Ad-Damer by conducting solidarity stands in front of the Dams Administration building and declaring that their “stand with the Manasir is a a stand for change”. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 115%; " >On Thursday, December 20<sup>th</sup> a group of Manasir Youth arrived to Khartoum determined to bring the cause closer to Osama Abdulla, the president’s cousin and the Director of the Administration of Dams. They chanted around down town’s public bus station and were met with violence from the authorities and many youth were arrested. The next day the Manair Youth issued a statement on Facebook calling supporters to gather on Thursday 12 p.m in the University of Khartoum and march with them to the near presidential palace where they will deliver a message to the president, the police and security forces were waiting outside campus ready and steady not aware of the Manasir Youth tactic of splitting into two groups, one started a demonstration in the Public Bust Station once more, and the other group mobilizing the students inside the UofK campus. The police forces moved to suppress the first group which gave a chance to the second group to leave the campus and head to their destination, when the authorities found out they were fooled, the revenge was furious. Tear gas was bombed openly by riot police regardless of passing cars and buses, then the police invaded the campus and violently evacuated it without differentiation between students, except for the NCP’s student sector which is known to have direct contact with the National Intelligence and Security Services. Many students were injured and looted, some of them did not even know about the Manasir cause. Later that night the security forces attacked both the boys’ and girls’ dormitories beating and looting rooms taking mobile phones and laptops.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 115%; " >On Sunday December 25<sup>th</sup>, the students of UofK called for strike in protest of the police violence and invasion of the campus, and drafted a list of demands to present it to the university’s administration. An atmosphere of rebellion started spreading amongst the students, who demanded the resignation of the chancellor, an official apology from the police, the return of all stolen possessions, the treatment of all injured students and that the soldiers responsible be brought to justice, an important demand was added the next day of the strike, and that is to take the authority upon the very poor dormitories from the Students Support Fund and include it into the University’s administration, a very important demand because the Students Support Fund is controlled by the “Islamic Movement”, the student sect of the NCP/NIF, which spends more funds on its members and snitches than it does on the dorms. The students started organizing themselves through facebook groups and the Manasir Youth declared their support to the strike through speeches conducted in different campuses.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 115%; " >The political activism in Sudanese Universities is consisted of small parties and student sects of big parties, discussions are held daily in the form of open forums which are mostly attended by the members of the speaking party and a few members of its rivals; efforts are lost in mistrust, personal grudges and competitive behavior that often reach the point of violence, even though they all almost agree on the urgent need for change except –of course for the Islamic Movement which is pro NCP/NIF. But a great deal of students are not interested in these activities and they actually tend to avoid any contact with their fellow students who are involved in them, those seemingly apathetic students are known as flouters, and the maximum they’d do is to vote in the Students Union Elections, recently a new body emerged during UofK’s Union elections in October 2011, it was dubbed “Student Unity” and its slogan was “I am non-politically affiliated student and I vote for Student Unity”, other universities caught the trend and the flouter students showed great enthusiasm towards it. The recent strike situation in UofK brought all of these bodies and parties closer together, something that is almost unfathomable. I had a discussion with the son of a big time NCP/NIF leader, the son is a student in UofK and he has posted a status on facebook declaring that they should no longer stay silent on police violations and that “the youth are the change, the youth are the freedom, the youth are the future”, which I found very strange coming from someone who last year was urging people to vote for his father’s party in the Sudanese shameful elections of 2010. He spoke honestly and told me he only voted for the NCP/NIF in 2010 elections because all the “opposition parties” are nothing but chair seekers and the proof is the latest deal between the government and two of the major opposition parties which granted them two high rank positions in the state, and he said if he can go back in time he would abstain from voting because he doesn’t really believe in the NCP/NIF, he was honest to the extent he made a comparison between his situation and prophet Abraham’s situation whose father was “an infidel”. My point here is that, we should leave aside our political differences and political party relations and work on our human relations, everyone who wants to see a better Sudan where we all get equal chances of expressing our views peacefully can recognize the next one who wants the same thing I believe. I see this strike as an opportunity to create the necessary human relations that are based merely on the love of freedom and not political gains, this unity and determination to change can be sustained not by winning this battle, but by understanding the power of standing up as one, and I think this can be conveyed to the students by means of media and communication. UofK is not the only university that suffers from the regime’s brutality, during these days Kasala University is occupied by NISS agents and 16 students have been detained for a week, in Red Sea University students are being expelled for political reasons, and in universities all over the country the NCP/NIF is breaking someone’s legs or life. Student Unity bodies should all coordinate with each other and support each another, UofK students proved they are well knowledgeable when it comes to media production and they’ve been blessing their strike with videos and posters, this can be taught to the other universities in the far sides of the country where a camera phone is so hard to find, they can be provided with cameras and maybe laptops with basic training on capturing and uploading and social networking. Satire is great for breaking the tension and the fear; i suggest the students start mass producing jokes and cartoons about the police, about the irresponsible coward Mr. Hayati the chancellor of the university, about the unjust corrupted Osama Abdulla manager of dams department, and at the head of the decaying state Omer Al-Bashir. And we should not forget the real cause behind the UofK strike; it is not the Manasir’s long demand for justice, but the aspiration of the Sudanese people as a whole for social justice, freedom and equality. The October and April revolutions of 1985 and 1964 were sparked by Khartoum University students, and history tends to repeat itself, but this time we will prevent it, unlike the previous Sudanese revolutions, we will not allow this one to be stolen by the businessmen and soldiers again.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 115%; " > It is too early to determine whether the students’ faith in the possibility of change increased or decreased, the coming days will show and tell. But the obvious sense of responsibility amongst the students and the support they give for the poor people who are demonstrating 4 hours drive away to the north is remarkable, the use of social networking and communication tools has improved a lot since January the 30<sup>th</sup> when the youth marched down Alqasr Street inspired by Egypt’s Jan25 and Tunisia’s victory, and I can tell that January 30<sup>th</sup> 2012 will be a turning point.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 115%; "><span >The improving of the media created by the students is reliving, during the attack of the police on UofK’s campus, Khalil Ibrahim, rebel group leader was announced killed by the Sudanese Army, many local newspapers on the next day said the demonstration of Manasir in Khartoum is an act of revenge to Khalil’s death. Pro-government newspapers of course, but the students were ready to defend their cause and they pushed at least one newspaper into correcting its information, agencies like AFP, and Bloomberg conducted interviews with the students and published the true story on their websites, I believe the most effective way to support the cause through media is if we become truly independent in delivering the message, we are the ones who should be interviewing each other and taking videos and pictures of violations and victories, and provide the outside media with it, and not the other way around. We need to embrace the culture of video, even when nothing interesting is happening during a protest or a sit-in, we should keep a camera or two rolling, such footage will come handy and that is for sure, and it will also be a good training when all the dams of fear separating us from our future fall.</span><span ><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Ahmad DZAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12888511595118330870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494887414062418056.post-7844813577218674082012-01-11T16:36:00.000-08:002012-01-11T16:48:15.691-08:00This Is Street<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Haven't blogged in ages, i know<div>I need to come back, I miss this</div><div>but anyways, Facebook timeline brought this up to me, thought I share it here</div><div>wrote it a long time ago, so yeah</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 720px; height: 478px;" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/271196_10150227328698434_713483433_7521459_2734906_n.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span ><span style="line-height: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span ><span style="line-height: 14px;"><div style="text-align: center;">i'm doin this, for the kids growing up on the other side of perfect</div><div style="text-align: center;">a life of hurting, only agony is certain</div><div style="text-align: center;">people say eyes are windows to the soul</div><div style="text-align: center;">but you can't see through these curtains</div><div style="text-align: center;">of pain and misfortune</div><div style="text-align: center;">heads are heavy due to the weight of burden</div><div style="text-align: center;">still, they hold it high and even higher when sniffing on glue so they don't mire</div><div style="text-align: center;">in a life of shit, they tend to catch a fire</div><div style="text-align: center;">burn slow, for they know heaven gates are theirs to acquire</div><div style="text-align: center;">I admire their smiles and laughter</div><div style="text-align: center;">hope reminiscing will help them erase the anguish in the hereafter</div><div style="text-align: center;">if they ever reached it, cuz these kids, are just like a rafter</div><div style="text-align: center;">they never know if the next wave will take them to safety or to the grave</div><div style="text-align: center;">most of them are depraved</div><div style="text-align: center;">most of them never had a father, so don't tell one to behave</div><div style="text-align: center;">most of them don't work at all, but one still feels like a slave</div><div style="text-align: center;">and your garbage is someone else's food, and just like you and I they do crave</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">- Now this is street ..</div><div style="text-align: center;">by Ahmad Mahmoud on Friday, August 8, 2008 at 6:25pm</div></span></span></div>Ahmad DZAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12888511595118330870noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494887414062418056.post-71142552251206747662011-07-03T05:55:00.000-07:002011-07-03T06:04:03.724-07:00Gissat al Masoora al Maksoora/ The Broken Pipe FairytaleBig Welcome to the new blogger <a href="http://sudaneseactifist.wordpress.com/">SudaneseActifist</a>, who's a dear friend of mine. and here is her Masoora Story :)<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; color: rgb(122, 122, 122); font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "></strong></p></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; color: rgb(122, 122, 122); font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "></p><blockquote><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Once upon a time, not so long ago (at least 3 months ago), a suicide bomber pipe in Umdurman decided to explode. The pipe was in al-7itana, an area not so old, the pipeline must have been installed at least 20 years ago. Then the government increased water flow. What a noble thing to do. They want to give people more water but with such strong water flow the pipes struggled to subdue.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Poor suicidal 7itana pipe couldn’t take it anymore. Water flowed so strong, more than it could afford. It exploded flooding the whole street causing all sorts of disarray. The street was not paved so ponds kept getting formed. Mosquitos, frogs and wildlife have found a new home!</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">I know one girl that lives there that kept calling the Water Lords (aka Water Authority of the State of Khartoum). She called them AT LEAST 10 times she said but of course no solution was even sought. Other neighbors also called but only for their demise. All they got in return was a whole bunch of lies. Then they<br />were told the government cares, no more water should go to waste. They’re installing water meters to prevent the watershed! Rejoice people of 7ittana<br />water meters will be there FOR you! Yet the broken pipe also stood right there releasing water like a salvo :/</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Watershed moment is what the water meters caused. People of 7ittana, Nas al 7illa, rose and roared no water meters<a href="http://sudaneseactifist.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/our-water.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(243, 104, 109); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-197" title="our water" src="http://sudaneseactifist.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/our-water.jpg?w=194&h=306" alt="" width="194" height="306" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 15px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 5px; border-right-width: 5px; border-bottom-width: 5px; border-left-width: 5px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; max-width: 490px; height: auto; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(251, 221, 223); border-right-color: rgb(251, 221, 223); border-bottom-color: rgb(251, 221, 223); border-left-color: rgb(251, 221, 223); float: right; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " /></a> shall be installed; “if the water lords dared to mess, they better fix the broken pipe before they can only blame themselves!” For sending a water meter messenger<br />that will only be beaten up, will be of no good but for the ruthless hospital<br />thugs (a.k.a some government hospital staff).</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">The story’s incomplete as we can’t but sit and wait. Will the people rise up or was it all just roars and talk? Will action be taken? And who will start the onslaught? or will it all just be forgotten as the water meters get installed? but who will pay for the broken pipe? whose water meter will it condemn?</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">I promise I shall keep you posted all they way until the end so stay tuned ya nas and listen up with intent :P</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">P.S. This is a true story. I’m going to go take pictures of the broken water pipe and post them really soon.</strong></p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "></strong></p></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Visit our group "against prepaid water meters" <a href="https://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_220939071259504">here</a>: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_220939071259504">https://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_220939071259504</a></div><div><br /></div><div>and oh, this morning, Al-Intibaha newspaper published the Khartoum Governor's "directions" to stop installing the new meters in residential areas.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/268781_10150302858881874_746581873_9110496_2506504_n.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Ahmad DZAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12888511595118330870noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494887414062418056.post-9966025353570205702011-05-15T18:16:00.000-07:002011-05-15T18:18:10.568-07:00Bloggin' Back Real Soonhopefully .. :)Ahmad DZAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12888511595118330870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494887414062418056.post-8611684511023318382010-10-24T04:54:00.000-07:002010-10-24T05:18:13.662-07:00Otherlogy<div align="left">Last night, I tried writing about Unity and such..<br />Couldn’t draft that much<br /><br />I couldn’t even write the words: Sudan Unite<br />Because my pen knows, that I memorized a lot of Jahili Poetry<span style="font-size:78%;"><em>(1)</em></span><br />And still don’t know how Nuer tribes write<br /><br />I was taught about how Sahaba<em><span style="font-size:78%;">(2)</span></em> used to fight<br />But was never told of how Shilluk people love<br />Or at the very least, what are their pick up lines<br /><br />I learned more about Greek mythology, than Dinka mythology..<br />And oh, the ghost of Che follows me..<br />But I hardly know of any southern prodigy<br />Except for John Garang, hmmm, not so true probably<br /><br />Because I could’ve said to him Thank You in five different languages you see..<br />Shukran, Thanks, Arigato, Gracias, and Merci<br />But only today, I learned how to say “Yin Cha Leech” five years after he passed away<br /><br />“Yakh Hanak Beesh”<span style="font-size:78%;"><em>(3)</em></span><br /><br />Like when I complain if a catchy Indian song was on<br />Without subtitles..<br />But stand watching a group of Southerners singing on Harmony<em><span style="font-size:78%;">(4)</span></em><br />Without harmony, because Harmony trifles their agony<br />I see them dance, my third eye is not vital, but it’s able to glance<br />To help me enhance my identity, daydream of a day when we all live in amenity<br /><br />Back to my serenity towards Secession versus Unity<br /><br />I’ll find that when Khartoum is recognized as Meeting of the Rivers in the Dinka tongue<br />And not, The Trunk Of An Elephant<em><span style="font-size:78%;">(5)</span></em>..<br />Look up the word Omdurman too, because it also is relevant<br />I’ll finish this January, two thousand and eleven </div><p><span style="font-size:78%;">Otherlogy by: Ahmad M. 21.10.2010</span></p><p><strong><em>Footnotes</em></strong>: </p><ol><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Jahili Poetry: Pre-Islamic Arabic poetry of the Arabian Peninsula.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Sahaba: The companions of the Prophet Mohammed</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Yakh Hanak Beesh: Sudanese Arabic slang for "That's bullsh*t"</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Harmony: a locat Sudanese Music TV channel</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Trunk of An Elephant: Khartoum, in Arabic means the trunk in An Elephant (slightly pronounced Khortoum in this case), but actually it's derrived from Dinka Kir and Toum which means meeting of rivers.</span></li></ol><p> </p><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5531580182619957874" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 366px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aWb7d1y6GVQ/TMQe3lenKnI/AAAAAAAAAF0/nvUF7Z5H9-4/s400/40162_10150305859840381_552700380_15393084_6788873_n.jpg" border="0" /></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;"><strong>Breaking Africa's heart - By: Qotouf Yahia</strong></span></p>Ahmad DZAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12888511595118330870noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494887414062418056.post-5957599486132199652010-04-22T13:55:00.000-07:002010-04-22T14:00:06.676-07:00"I told You So"ish - Sudanese Election Fraud on Videoso yeah, they blocked Youtube in Sudan.. AGAIN ..<br />this <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8633162.stm">VIDEO</a> came out, and .. Youtube went out ..<br />we'll need <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21600478366">THIS</a> again, I won't even change the group's describtion<br /><br />blogging laterAhmad DZAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12888511595118330870noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494887414062418056.post-18151330373605097592010-02-18T05:58:00.000-08:002010-02-18T06:29:49.841-08:00SudaRap Mixtape Vol.1<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aWb7d1y6GVQ/S31MfP8nvQI/AAAAAAAAAFk/uEeEbNwQaUU/s1600-h/17574_304759255793_119924805793_3667940_2423443_n.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439588024673877250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 390px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aWb7d1y6GVQ/S31MfP8nvQI/AAAAAAAAAFk/uEeEbNwQaUU/s400/17574_304759255793_119924805793_3667940_2423443_n.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aWb7d1y6GVQ/S31LcbvVPgI/AAAAAAAAAFc/2IDrw17EyL0/s1600-h/20764_281865031833_773201833_4407072_2779863_n.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439586876788129282" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aWb7d1y6GVQ/S31LcbvVPgI/AAAAAAAAAFc/2IDrw17EyL0/s400/20764_281865031833_773201833_4407072_2779863_n.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><p align="center"><strong>SudaRap Mixtape Vol.1<br /></strong><br />"New mixtape collects the pieces of the sudanese rappers puzzle, picky representative and unreleased tracks are being preformed by Sudan's sickest emcees, the concept is ultimate and totally fullfilled by different techniques and styles, vary from the old skool, modern rap and underground hardcore, ripped by english and of course, our lovely sudanese accent.<br /><br />SudaRap Mixtape is an effictive addition to the hip hop scene in sudan, and will be considered as the spark that gathers all Sudanese artformers to participate together and strike with one hand."<br /><br /><strong>شريط سوداراب الاصدار الأول</strong><br /><br />"هو شريط جديد يجمع قطع الأحجية المتناثرة للرابرز السودانيين، مجموعة من الأغاني المختارة بعناية و غير مطروحة في الساحة سيتم أدائها من قبل افضل الرابرز السودانيين، مفهوم الشريط هو كامل و منجز كليا باستخدام عدة تقنيات و اساليب، وتتنوع من الاولد سكول راب و الراب الحديث الى الهاردكور راب، و اللغة المستخدمة هي الانقليزية و بالطبع لهجتنا المحبوبة السودانية، سلسلة شرائط سوداراب هي اضافة فعالة لساحة الهيب هوب في السودان و ستعتبر الشرارة التي ستجمع كل الفنانين السودانيين لكي يجتمعو ويهاجمو بيد واحدة. "<br /><br /><br />Mixtape is hosted and manged by Hashim Tha Brainstorm (AKA Zoulotary from ReZOULution) & Rebel S..<br /><br />The Artwork Desinge is by Rebel S<br /><br /><strong>DOWNLOAD AND SPREAD PLEASE: </strong><strong><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?dwqze24lmnm">http://www.mediafire.com/?dwqze24lmnm</a></strong><br />(size: -70MB)</p></div>Ahmad DZAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12888511595118330870noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494887414062418056.post-16113742579903065602009-09-13T04:30:00.000-07:002009-09-13T05:03:56.127-07:00Sudanese Hip Hop<div align="center"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aWb7d1y6GVQ/Sqzah9w11ZI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/cdZ-no7c7DU/s1600-h/10424_143662738240_89972948240_2473169_4435449_n.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380915931850855826" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 383px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aWb7d1y6GVQ/Sqzah9w11ZI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/cdZ-no7c7DU/s400/10424_143662738240_89972948240_2473169_4435449_n.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="left">I havn't been blogging lately because I'm so busy putting together an album under ReZoulution (AKA REZ249) records, whcih is a 100% independent label. set by me and my friend Ran Quip 2 years ago, and now consisted of 7 rappers. we make our own music, mostly smaple-besed beats using Sudanese original songs. and we rap in English, Classic Arabic, and Sudanese Arabic.<br /><br />anyways, our first mixtape entitled "The Food of The Sun" is to be released soon, by me (DZA Tha Dissenter) and Ran Quip, it's all in English Language, I gurantee it's going to be one of the best english rap albums ever been made in the middle east zone.<br /><br />We released a single a couple of days ago, "Forgotten Age" it is, political rap. sudanese to the core. hear it out.<br /></div>Visit the Group's page on Facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/ReZOULutionists/89972948240">http://www.facebook.com/pages/ReZOULutionists/89972948240</a><br /><div align="center"><br /><br /><param value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7XBau-eUVJQ&hl=en&fs=1&" name="movie"></param><param value="true" name="allowFullScreen"></param><param value="always" name="allowscriptaccess"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7XBau-eUVJQ&hl=" width="425" height="344" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" fs="1&"></embed><br /><br /></div><br /><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><br />The people on the Single Cover requires a whole other post, maybe later. peace </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><strong>The lyrics for my verse (The First One):</strong></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><br /><br />Fuck the peace agreement, it wouldn't cease the vehement<br />let the sunny truth beam in, the abyss of lying heathens<br />theocraticals misleading, the nation with sloganeering<br />theological treason formation is what i'm leading<br />bring hell to fake edens, I don't believe what they believe in<br />so I leave snakes bleeding, cutting them like excision<br />for skin changing and schemin, abusing religion<br />mass confusion, people losing their vision<br />invision yourself a southerner in 1964<br />when Abboud commissioned Islamization of South by force<br />what for? the dispansation of God's word?<br />man, it was the elation of his soul<br />the population refused war, and he was overthrown<br />(that's the glorious revolution of October)<br />five years later Nimeiri took over<br />south and north conflict got worse, moreover<br />Nubian monuments were buried under water<br />and the communists were slaughterd<br />by applying Sharia laws under US orders<br />April 85, he fled for his life to Egypt<br />democracy flourished for four years but they couldn't keep it<br />cuz the Salvation Invasion came to reap it<br />calling it a revolution, but it was merely an illusion<br />a false resoulution, far from a solution<br />and to this very day they still selling us dellusions<br />so this is not the conclusion</div>Ahmad DZAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12888511595118330870noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494887414062418056.post-49754759364428614692009-07-10T05:16:00.000-07:002009-07-11T07:05:44.954-07:00This Is Really Annoying My Feelings!<div align="left">The Sudanese journalist Mrs. Lubna Ahmed Hussien invites us all to come to her trial. as she might recieve the verdict of 40 lashes as a punishment for the crime of wearing an outfit that is "annoying to the public taste"!!!<br /><br /><br /><br /></div><p align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356838501208260354" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aWb7d1y6GVQ/SldQPC-nfwI/AAAAAAAAADw/LAvZeqNgnWo/s400/6174_107548572141_560072141_2670098_2338890_n.jpg" border="0" /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">A copy of the invitation signed by Mrs. Lubna herself and which she passed to her work colleagues</span></p><div align="left"><br /><br /></div><p align="left">Lubna Ahmed Hussien is a sudanese journalist who's been writing in local newspapers for years now, and has a famous column titled "Kalam Rujal" (meaning "Speech of Men"), in mid October of 2008, she was arrested along with 15 journalists. (for further information about the incident, see page 16 of <a href="http://www.sudantribune.com/IMG/pdf/SHRO_Quarterly_28.pdf">THE SUDANESE HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY</a>.</p><div align="center"><br /><br /><br /></div><p align="left">back to the topic at hand, the law of which the court's verdict will be based on is part of the Sudan Criminal Procedure Act of year 1991, and titled with the number (152). Lubna's crime was described as "annoying to the public feelings". wait, take a look at her the outfit she was wearing and tell me if your "feelings" were "annoyed".</p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357167380782278274" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 299px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aWb7d1y6GVQ/Slh7WW3WZoI/AAAAAAAAAD4/EBrRZZ6xlhU/s400/6174_107922212141_560072141_2676453_5196799_n.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">Mrs. Lubna wearing the dress She was arrested for</span><br /></p><p>This is a very respectful outfit to wear in a place like Khartoum, if they accused her of "annoying the public feelings" with this (which is only the notorious Public Order Police way of saying "you're a whore") so the Moral Police is also accusing my mother, my sisters, and my friends of being disrespectful whores who should be arrested anyday and lashed.</p><br /><br /><p>you wanna know what really annoys the feelings?</p><br /><br /><p>It's the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8122000/8122119.stm">systematic violence </a>brought to the rooms of girls' dormitory of Khartoum University by real whores, masked men with meta bars, attacking over 30 unarmed women sending dozens to hospitals for medical care, and eventually the government (who cares about the public feelings) shut down the dormitory without giving a damn about the feelings of these girls who came from their rural villages to study and have nowhere else to go. oh, the whores who attacked the dormitory are members of the National Congress Party (the ruling part), so we know who paid for these metal bars. <a href="http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article24946">Children Rape</a> annoys the feelings, The situation of the abandoned children of <a href="http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article11831">Mygoma Orphanage</a> annoys the feelings, the unfair imprisonment of <a href="http://www.blogger.com/http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=52534151217">Nahla Bashir</a> annoys the feelings. But no, they decide to spend time and money persecuting a respectfull hard working beatiful woman and leave the malicious lazy ugly MEN who bring us nothing but misery.</p><br /><p>Omer Al-Dosh, a great sudanese poet, described Khartoum in one of his poems, as "the city that lies down and sell its thighs to passerbys, look down at her children and push them to the river Nile, and goes back to lie down". I wonder what would he say if he witness these times.</p><br /><p></p><br /><p>Mrs. Lubna's last article was about <a href="http://www.kenana.com/">The Kenana Sugar Company</a>, of which the NCP hold a great share of stocks in, the company launched a new project to produce Ethanol which is a side product of Sugar manufacturing, and the president OMer Al-Bashir himself will open the project her article then discusses the fact that we can't use Ethanol for automobile fuel here because we still don't have the Technology, but It can be used to manufacture Spirits/Alcohol. she compares the company (and its stockholders) with the poor women who manufacture Aragi (Sudanese local alcoholic drink) and mocks the "<a href="http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_National_Salvation_Revolution_in_Sudan">Salvation Revolution</a>" so-called "Civil Project" seperation of Alcohol manufacturing from the canned, non-alcoholic drinks manufacturing, and describe it of being a joke in the face of the "Civil Project's" enemy which is "seperating religion from the state". and tells the story of the Shaheed Organization (Martyr's Organization), which is a product of the <a href="http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_National_Salvation_Revolution_in_Sudan">Salvation Revolution </a>(Established July, 1992), She remembers that, this organization actually started manufacturing Alcohol long before Kenana. right after the Organization stopped making Food Oil and started importing it from Malaysia and continued making Ethanol, which later reached the cups of sudanese citizens who found a hard time getting real <a href="http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Africa/Sudan/Nightlife-Sudan-BR-1.html">Aragi</a> because of the famous Sharia Laws that chased down local manufacturers, the ethanol manufactured by Shaheed Organization became locally known as ESPIRIT (obviously derrived from Spirit) and it caused poisoning and sudden blindness to its users. She later elaborates in a comically in the subject and finishes her article by the question "Is Kenana's Ethanol for the car, or for the driver?".</p><p><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357181176267492098" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aWb7d1y6GVQ/SliH5XDVSwI/AAAAAAAAAEA/Dow3OCodDSg/s400/6174_107915367141_560072141_2676296_7376681_n.jpg" border="0" /></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">Kenana Sugar Company</span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /></p><p></p><p><br />We are living ugly times in Sudan, we might <a href="http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article31725">started manufacturing airplanes</a>, but technology is nothing if we don't start working on our mental and moral health. I remember from my last visit to Kasala, I was having an outside lunch with a group of freinds from Khartoum and other Kasala locals, not far away from us there were a group of a famous private medical college, most of them born and raised out of Sudan, so their dress code might be a little different from Kasala's local citizen "taste". I was shocked when some of the people I'm with described the girls of being "nothing but whores" for dressing like that, and asking questions like "Where're their parents?".</p><p>In August of the year 1997, students of <a href="http://www.ahfad.org/">Ahfad University for Women </a>were arrested and lashed in public by the Morality Police (The Public Order Police).</p><p>And about two months ago, in my university (which is been controlled by NCP for over 7 years now, they haven't lost an election in 7 years, I stopped voting), they banned girls who wore T-Shirts from entering the campus!! and as a result, a security guard slapped a student on her face for insisting to go inside and catch her lecture. We -the students- split into two groups, those who agreed on slapping her, and those who were against the dress-code rule and the security guard violent action. I was shocked at some of the first group's opinions on this matter, the word Taliban kept echoeing in my head everytime some fucked up dude mentions the words Fitna, Awra, Munkar, etc.</p><p>this is a mere result of the bullshit fed to the sudanese citizen by the decayed government of Ingaz that contradicts not only itself, but also the doctrine they say their based on, which is Islam. I'm afraid soon we will have a gathering <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XlY0BY5tdU">like this</a> somewhere in Khartoum. I hope Lubna doesn't get lashed, and that she puplished her invitation for nothing, but if THEY lashed her, then it'll be OUR shame if we don't do something about it.<br /><br /><br />Let's end this with a party, held at Kober Prison in Khartoum, thrown by the POLICE. and view the real whores, i'm not talking about the singer, she's just doing her job. I'm talking about the policeman who's taking a video with his phone, i'm talking about the KOZ (local nickname for NCP members) who signed the papers for bringing this singer and then lecturing us about how we should dress.<br /></p><br /><br /><param value="http://www.youtube.com/v/k4TB40nH8BU&hl=en&fs=1&" name="movie"></param><param value="true" name="allowFullScreen"></param><param value="always" name="allowscriptaccess"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/k4TB40nH8BU&hl=" width="425" height="344" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" fs="1&"></embed>Ahmad DZAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12888511595118330870noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494887414062418056.post-11186930062800651882009-03-08T07:57:00.000-07:002009-03-08T09:10:23.621-07:00My Reaction to RCC<div align="left">Salam all, <a href="http://www.sudanesethinker.com/">Drima</a> posted asking fellow Sudanese Bloggers to post links for <a href="http://www.sudanesethinker.com/2009/03/07/sudanese-bloggers-react-to-icc/">their reaction </a>on the ICC's warrent against Al-Bashir . I'm on my final exams these days so I'm not going to post something big this time, but I found these funny cartoons by the Sudanese cartoonist Omer Dafa'allah, I will try to translate them in a sec, and come back later to post what I think about this. </div><div align="left">I have plenty to say about this just like millions of Sudanese citizens from both sides, those who support Al-Bashir, and those who support the ICC (to those who support Al-Bashir there's no such thing as ICC it's only the "jew", "pig" "playboy" Ocampo, and they're taking it in a personal way that just sickening). there's also those who wants to see justice brought to Sudan but they don't want it to be brought by the ICC and the ones behind it, one can't deny there are people behind this move and who benefit from its "consequences". consequences, that is a scary word to most of us Sudanese when it comes to this decision. Kizan (= Sudanese people call NCP's regime members' Kizan and it translates to cups or buckets, its singular is pronounced "Koz", it's said that Hassan Al-Turabi, the NCP's godfather have created this phrase back in the 80's or 70's I don't remember, when he stated that "Islam is a sea, and we are the cups/kizan that draw from it", yeah right. anyways. Kizan are trying to make us believe that there will be chaos and madness if Omer was arrested, they tend to repeat that the ICC's goal is "Creative Chaos" and they work to convince the Sudanese masses that if you do not support Omer Al-Bashir, you are a spy and a puppet of the enemies, which is Ocampu, USA, jews, blah blah. I gotta run now, lemme past them pictures first with simple translations.<br /><br /></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><br /><br /></div><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310833671552811298" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 275px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aWb7d1y6GVQ/SbPfFhYWwSI/AAAAAAAAADY/n-5cQOq1PIE/s400/2610_56180658433_713483433_1605823_7569163_n.jpg" border="0" /></p><p>The sign says: Omer Al-Bashir's House, and the two women are his wifes. one of them is saying "If you only knew how kind Omer is, but sons of bitches got to him, made a president of him and a stupid goat".<br /><br /></p><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310833684309024770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 275px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aWb7d1y6GVQ/SbPfGQ5rIAI/AAAAAAAAADo/K-Pqs6kZXS4/s400/n713483433_1605831_1824123.jpg" border="0" /><br />- Kizan leaves Al-Basjir for himself against ICC. The Koz holding a bag of money is urging UN and ICC to be easy with the man for his so scared of them, the UN is urging ICC to catch him.</p><p><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310833676475664018" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 275px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aWb7d1y6GVQ/SbPfFzuDhpI/AAAAAAAAADg/gdxgUx52xUs/s400/n713483433_1605830_144019.jpg" border="0" />the sign says "The Islamic Hole to hide the Symbol of sovereignty and Patriotism", fat Koz is saying "We rather live under ground than over, we don't care about ICC". -this expression "Under ground is better to us than the surface is also a Kizan invention, from the Civil War days, I forgot who said it though.<br /></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310833669731653506" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 275px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aWb7d1y6GVQ/SbPfFamKF4I/AAAAAAAAADQ/bg2EK0u6Yh4/s400/2610_56180653433_713483433_1605822_2258675_n.jpg" border="0" /><br />Omer Al-Bashir holding his shoe yelling "dog, coward, playboy", and two men looking, one is obviously high on Bango (sudanese slang for Marijuana) saying "Man, seems he went nuts", I didn't finish translation of his line cuz i'm not sure what it means, but if it's what I think it is then LMAO, it's funny lideeeeen. so, sudanese visitors, whatta you think he means by "shari7a"?<br /><br />Salam out<br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aWb7d1y6GVQ/SbPeId8dkNI/AAAAAAAAADI/QYd1hXJRRkQ/s1600-h/2610_56180638433_713483433_1605821_8053321_n.jpg"></a>Ahmad DZAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12888511595118330870noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494887414062418056.post-8593217255069803762009-01-30T02:16:00.000-08:002009-01-30T02:30:38.253-08:00Tribalism Vs. StatismLast night I went to a police station to file a report against some "Al Nizam Al3am" recruites who arrested me for "buying alcohol" (A Nizam Ala'am=Puplic Order, which is a police department responsible for "fighting moral crimes", like alcohol, drugs, sex, etc, and they are SOB's I tell you), well, me and a friend did buy a bottle of alcohol, but my friend who was holding it jumbed off the <a href="http://www.tradenote.net/images/users/000/486/347/products_images/1204176886.jpg">Raksha</a> (click to see what a Raksha is) and he ran like he never ran before lol, I was "roughed" around and threatened by a piece of bango/marijuana if I don't make my friend come back with the bottle, in the end they let me go.. anyways, that's not the issue. the issue is I wanted to avenge for wasting my time so bad I decided to go to the Police Station myself and find these suckers, I memorized the car's plate numbers and took another Raksha.<br /><br />at the station I was asked for my name, age, address, and "my tribe". the policeman who was asking me these questions was a western sudanese. I told him I can't answer this question cuz it's not relevant to my case. but he insisted it because it's "procedures". I couldn't understand how asking me about my tribe is procedure!<br />but as I tried to describe the dudes who arrested me i couldn't help but to reffer to one of them as "wad 3arab" (=son of an arab). i felt bad for using this stupid description so I added the pharase "you know, as THEY say, he was a wad 3arab/arab".<br />and I thought about "THEY" for a minute, THEY is obviously the ones who find benefit in such discrimination, the benefit is mostly political of course, but most of the times it is mere Pride. THEY find comfort in being proud of who THEY are, or in fact, what THEIR tribe is. the same western policeman told me "this will never change", and "sudan will remain racist forever". i don't think this is racism, this is more like an attempt to fulfil one's pride in one's self. i don't think this can be "changed" or removed, but it can be directed in a better way, instead of classifying sudanese people on the basis of their tribe, why not do so on the basis of their city, state, or home town, if sudanese people learned to be proud in who they really are, Sudanese, and replaced the need for tribalism as a method for pride fulfilment, we would have a much better Sudan.<br /><br />I want the next presidenid to try and make everyone proud of where he was born, make one proud of the land not the people/tribes who once dwelled this land. every sudanese state/region has its own unique culture, use this as way to fulfil people's pride with. why should all states have to teach the same subjects in schools, let every state teach its own history for example, so the children grow with pride in their land no matter what the tribes they came from are. but when you teach everyone about "great" muslim and "arab" men, our peoblem will never be solved.<br /><br />i have to go now, oh, don't mind the topic's title, it's meaningless lol<br />peace<br />and yeah, our weekend was not completely ruined after all, we went out again and bought another bottle from a place right next to the Police Station :DAhmad DZAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12888511595118330870noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494887414062418056.post-43828077654409848482009-01-24T06:14:00.000-08:002009-01-24T06:19:00.691-08:00Shadia Mansourthe palestinian singer and rapper Shadia Mansour is a real talented artist, one minute she's singing like Fayrooz, the next she's spitting rap like no other arab rapper. she's simply amazing. it's been only three days since I listened to her with Mahmoud Jrere (from DAM) on this amazing song "Badi Salam" (I want peace).<br /><br /><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/S72x4Txh_D8&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/S72x4Txh_D8&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed><br /><br /><br />cheak her tracks on her Myspace: <a href="www.myspace.com/shadiamusic">www.myspace.com/shadiamusic</a>Ahmad DZAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12888511595118330870noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494887414062418056.post-57003360191513392822009-01-24T05:47:00.000-08:002009-01-24T05:52:33.627-08:00All is War<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gCFf3jDpRlI&hl=" width="425" height="344" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" fs="1" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed><br /><br /><br /><br />Fun-da-mental -- All Is War album which caused a media frenzy is now in video form.The video shows the three bombmakers, an anarchist bomb maker who shows how with a small amount of money he can craete chaos. An intellectual, academic and educated renegade who for a certain amount of money is willing to deal his secrets to the highest bidder.The most interesting is the last one who is sponsered by the majority of the general public from their taxes and works on our behalf through the Govts or States to make the most horrific bombs(in killing ability).The track questions the morality of an acceptable and legal bomber and one that is working for other purposes.In this day of "War On Terror" all common sense and justice seems to be a monoply to those who are the most wealthy and most hypocritical, those that cause most mischeif and feel that they have the sole and moral right to muder people.. Madness all of it...video & tracks downlaods from <a href="http://www.fun-da-mental.co.uk/">www.fun-da-mental.co.uk</a>Ahmad DZAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12888511595118330870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494887414062418056.post-32181281278351732062008-12-24T03:30:00.000-08:002008-12-24T03:32:41.367-08:00The Illetracy Mythso yeah, yall know how we been taught that the prophet Mohammed is an "Ummy" (Illiterate) prophet.. meaning he can't write nor read. and we have been taught to view this as a meracle, and a proof for the Quran being "not written by him".<br />I always wondered how can a noble man like Mohammed who descended from a noble house, and married a noble woman who trusted him for her wealth and he travelled to different places for trade, how come a man like that didn't read or write. well, one can never prove if Mohammed did read and write, but one can sure demolish the FALSE claim that he was Illiterate.<br />if we read the verses in the quran that mentions that word "UMMY", there's a different meaning that's not even close to literacy .. it's actually the "nasab"/"Name" of "Umma" or Nations.. therefore "Ummy" is more like "National".. read the verse and use your mind .. I'll quote them in english since this is an english forums, but with the verse number so you can cheak in arabic.. those are just two verses, there's more ..<br /><br />3: 20 “…and tell those who have received the scriptures and the Ummien have you submitted?…”<br /><br />2:78-79 "Among them are 'ummuys' who do not know the scripture, except through hearsay, then assume that they know it.<br />Therefore, woe to those who distort the scripture with their own hands, then say, "This is what God has revealed," seeking a cheap material gain. Woe to them for such distortion, and woe to them for their illicit gains."<br /><br />reading the verses, you sense that the subject isn't the ability of Mohammed to read or write, it's the fact that he is not from the house of David, not from the tribes of Israel .. he is an Ummy, the nasab of Umma, meaning he is sent to all nations,<br />the first verse clearly states the there is: 1) people who who have received the scriptures, and 2) the Ummien, which is obviously the people who have not recieved a scripture (who are not from Ahl Al kitab).<br />in the second verse Allah warns "Ummys" not to distort the scriptures with their own hands, so the word Ummy can't mean Illitrate ..<br />the word Ummy is clearly the nasab for Umma, since Mohammed's Quran was the only scripture sent to a messenger who is not from the tribes of Israel,<br />a "Gentile" messenger.<br />the word Gentile means "belonging to or characteristic of non-Jewish peoples" and in hebrew it is "Goym". in Jewsh culture (and in the Torah), people of other cultures are called "Gentiles"/"Goym", in arabic, they are "Ummyien".<br /><br />this is open for discussion yo, before anything, go read Surat Al-Omran, Aya: 75Ahmad DZAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12888511595118330870noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494887414062418056.post-66306836885428456102008-12-13T10:11:00.000-08:002008-12-13T10:16:15.297-08:00Listen, And Close Your Eyes to See<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ft-cklDvcYQ&hl=" width="425" height="344" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" fs="1" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed>Ahmad DZAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12888511595118330870noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494887414062418056.post-92199825222958448882008-11-20T09:26:00.000-08:002008-11-20T09:30:55.461-08:00Obama is related to Bush, Cheney, Madonna, Marlyn Monroe, and Brad fuckin' Pitt YEAH, KEEP IT IN THE FAMILY BABY !!Watch this first (News footage):<br /><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_ldZS9PL9KE&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_ldZS9PL9KE&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed><br /><br />then watch this (The Arrivals Part 41):<br /><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/daxnUMUnolc&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/daxnUMUnolc&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed><br /><br /><br />BOOMAhmad DZAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12888511595118330870noreply@blogger.com43tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494887414062418056.post-67222873477230706092008-11-17T10:16:00.000-08:002008-11-17T10:30:02.462-08:00Youtube Is back, but how can we stop FOX?Youtube is unblocked in Sudan now, I don't know who to thank, maybe me for starting that group :p lol .. but ey, thank god<br />anyways .. I just learned that Myspace banned a song !!<br />Myspace as most of us bloggers know is owned by that blood sucking leech Rupert Murdoch and his FOX Corp.<br />the song that was banned is East Coast Avengers - The Day Hope Died .. listen to it:<br /><br /><br /><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8ygv9bP-cG4&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8ygv9bP-cG4&hl=" width="425" height="344" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" fs="1" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed><br /><br />for real, fuck the internet censorshipAhmad DZAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12888511595118330870noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494887414062418056.post-26211313300310078612008-11-02T09:09:00.000-08:002008-11-02T09:17:54.897-08:00Salamphew :s, the reason I made this blog was to say stuff whenever I want to all of you.<br /><br />it's been a while I havn't said anything lol<br /><br />ly b3deen<br />latersAhmad DZAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12888511595118330870noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494887414062418056.post-10783941978511666732008-10-29T07:31:00.000-07:002008-10-29T07:33:14.600-07:00Khartoum At Night<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aWb7d1y6GVQ/SQhz_2HqzMI/AAAAAAAAACw/-wfRkuhfLgU/s1600-h/Picture1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262583705279057090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aWb7d1y6GVQ/SQhz_2HqzMI/AAAAAAAAACw/-wfRkuhfLgU/s400/Picture1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div>Ahmad DZAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12888511595118330870noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494887414062418056.post-20857784656757428322008-09-21T11:14:00.000-07:002008-09-21T11:26:03.286-07:00Lyrical Blasphemy<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aWb7d1y6GVQ/SNaQzs4WbEI/AAAAAAAAABw/qPXR12j-X4U/s1600-h/n713483433_960264_8213.jpg"></a><br />Ayo Bukhari<br />wherever you are, I hope you feelin sorry<br />and your consciousness is tourturin you<br />for tradin honesty for glory<br />tellin false stories that people hold as divine allegories<br />justifyin being gory with what you defined as Sahih Hadeeth<br />even though Islam is a religion of peace<br />your book declared war on non-muslims without cease<br />for kings to conquor lands and minds and become lifetime profiteers<br />and thanks to your hatred, hell for women became the middle east<br />the misogyny you advocated spreaded like a disease<br />throughout the world, and it wsn't the teachings of Mohammed<br />oh please..<br />it was the preachings of many many many fake shikhs<br />cuz you put that shit together 200 years after he deceased<br />yeah, I know you travelled far on camel backs just to get one hadeeth intact<br />usin what's become known as Isnad<br />but creating a solid chain of narrations won't make lies become facts<br />plus, your chain is full of thiefs and liars<br />and so many of "Lahw Al-Hadeeth"* buyers<br />take Abu Huryra for example, Year 20 of Hijra he was hired by Omar to govern Bahrain<br />but he enriched himself even though Omer sent him there "without Ni3lain"*<br />so Omer denied him the position and punished him for his greed<br />and if you don't believe me you better read Al-Ikd Al-Fareed<br />Abu Huryra only lived with Mohammed for two years<br />so how come he's tellin more hadeeth than Abu Bakr is?<br />cuz he's a liar, thats what Ali and Aisha said he is<br />even "The Nation's Priest", Abdullah Ibn Abbas AKA Hibr Al-Ummah, lied<br />the prophet's cousin who was only eleven when Mohammed died<br />during the reign of Ali Ibn Abi Talib he was responsible for Al-Basra's House of Wealth<br />Ali recieved a message informing him of his cousin's theft<br />and wrote to him remindin him about Allah's wrath<br />but ibn Abbas wrote back "da3ny min Asaterik"* for he was way down in iblis's path<br />and thretened Ali that he will fund Mowaya's Attacks, Alas<br />the Dynasty of Umayyads ruled in the name of Islam for a century<br />using some hadith tellers who actually belong to the penitentiary<br />to establish their kingdom with lies, roman epire style<br />Ahadith that plagiarized the bible and many other ancient files<br />thus we learned that Eve was created from Adam's rip<br />and that the prophet Mohammed tried to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff<br />we even got stories on Mohammed sexual activities, and how he can bang all his women in one night<br />what? were those who told these Ahadith witnesses of his sexual might?<br />or that on the judgment day Allah would prove he's Allah by showing his leg<br />showing his leg? you should be burned with your book for what you said<br />yet its held as authentic instead<br />and it contradicts the Quran in so many ways<br />it's so full of crap amounts that I can rap about for days<br />but this is enough for now I guess, plus.. I gotta go blaze<br /><br />* Quoting Omer Ibn Al-Khatab when he punished Abu Huryra for using money from Bayt Al-Mal for his trade.<br />* "Al-Ikd Al-Fareed" a famous history book by Ibn Abd-Rabbu<br />* this story is mentioned in "Tarikh Al-Tabri" a well known history book by Mohammed Al-Tabri<br />* Lahw Al-Hadeeth: Quran: Surah/Section: Lukman, Aya/verse: 6<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248542420085841666" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aWb7d1y6GVQ/SNaRhenJHwI/AAAAAAAAAB4/6Gq6HDMU23w/s320/n713483433_960264_8213.jpg" border="0" /><br />if it wasn't for Bukhari, people of Denemark wouldn't draw shit like this .. it's obvious that they read the damn book</div>Ahmad DZAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12888511595118330870noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494887414062418056.post-22601416485533202302008-08-06T06:46:00.000-07:002008-08-06T07:23:48.498-07:00Why I Use Youtube?A member of <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21600478366">Unblock Youtube In Sudan Now </a>on Facebook started a topic about how we benefit from Youtube in Sudan.<br />I was like ..<br /><br /><br /><br /><blockquote>youtube for me resembles independence arts at its best .. everyone who's sick<br />and tired of the commercialized music and the fake plastic artists on tv or on<br />the radio can watch/listen his/her favorite artists on Youtube, underground<br />musicians use youtube as a base to spread their music which they can't spread<br />through majoir record companies because it lacks the commercial aspect, take rap<br />music as an example, fakes like 50 cent and lil wayne found their way to fame<br />because they're on tv 24/7 makin commercials to cell phones, shoes and stuff<br />like that, but they have no artistic material of any kind, underground artists<br />can't compete on TV, but thanks to websites like youtube and myspace and many<br />other, they have a chance to make their voices heared.and not just the music, I<br />watched a "net-movie" for the first time on youtube, it was "Zeitgeist, The<br />Movie" a documantry with amazing content that would never be shown on TV, but<br />it's on youtube for whoever wants to see it.and I know alot of bloggers, and<br />v-bloggers (video bloggers) who use Youtube as a way to communicate and to speak<br />their minds, I know people who make news just like CNN or aljazeera, in other<br />words, Youtube is the equivalent to Gutenberg's machine, information can be made<br />by people who were yesterday only recieve it. suddenly everyone gets to speak<br />and not just listen like the old days, and I blv that's great.remember youtube's<br />motto: "broadcast yourself", it's a dagger in the heart of corporate media.</blockquote><br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=21600478366&topic=9929"><span style="font-size:85%;">Click here</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> for the full post</span><br /><br />Not to mention how you can watch the eclipse, a giant wave, sky movement, sunset at Everest, full moon at the desert, depth of the Atlantic, etc. anytime anyday. that's how I benefit from Youtube, but still, my favorite part is how Youtube serves Artists to spread their art, and even helps fans to share their the artists in making the art :D . for example, cheak this video for Jedi Mind Tricks, "<a href="http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ei4cfNSwzP4">Before The Great Collapse</a>", a fan and his friends made this video and broadcasted it worldwide.<br /><br />In the end, I leave you with <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.myspace.com/terrorizerecords">Genocide</a>, an underground bosnian MC (rap artist) who was a refugee during the genocide on his homeland (Go to: <a href="http://www.myspace.com/TerrorizeRecords">www.myspace.com/TerrorizeRecords</a>) . Track is named "<a href="http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb4o7LLGuMg">Genocide Alerts</a>" and talks about Sudan.<br /><br /><br /><br /><param value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Bb4o7LLGuMg&hl=en&fs=1" name="movie"></param><param value="true" name="allowFullScreen"></param><div align="center"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Bb4o7LLGuMg&hl=" width="425" height="344" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" fs="1"></embed></div>Ahmad DZAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12888511595118330870noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494887414062418056.post-79975596759468744002008-08-05T23:35:00.000-07:002008-08-06T00:56:10.510-07:00"They will show you how hitting be"So the reasons behind blocking Youtube in Sudan are still unknown, local newspapers reported that NTC officials didn't comment, one official said they will pass a written statement to newspapers, which i'm still waiting for.<br />I can imagine how that statement will look like, they will babble about immoral videos, and the sexual content as if blocking it will stop people from watching it, or they will express their anger at the "disrespecting" graphic videos of the president Omer Al-Bashir, as if he's not already a joke and a disgrace. but what they will not say is the truth about their improsinment to the children captured after JEM attacks. who were later given amnesty by President Omer Beshir and I know he didn't do that out of sympathy.<br />We can still open Youtube in Sudan, using Canada's servers for example.<br /><br /><a href="http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=4weg3meO7vM">http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=4weg3meO7vM</a><br />The video shows prisoners of JEM May 10th attacks, children prisoners, forced to crawl while being beaten by government Army soldiers. You can hear the children scream in pain, and you will see many soldiers with whips in their hands. They say a picture worth a thousand words, well, a video worth alot more I say.<br />If you can't understand arabic or sudanese dielect, I'll try to translatre some of the dialogue. One of the soldiers voice tellin another "let him hit them, let him take out their souls too", then the same voice is asking one of the prisoners "RPG?", he says againg "Klash? klash you son of a dog". other voices in the background "hit him", "hit him good", the children cries will make you sick.<br />At the second minute of the video, the soldiers are asking one of the prisoners some questions in a sarcastic way. "You were forced to come here?" the prisoner answers "Yes we were forced", the prisoner then says some more stuff but I can't hear him, they ask him "why did you go to Angamina (the capital of Chad which gave support to Dr. Khalil's forces)" he answers "I'm from Sudan" and says something about "hitting/shooting", a soldier tells him "They will show you how hitting be". and with the same sarcastic behaviour a soldier asks a prisoner if he "wants water" and tells him to "wait, it'll come". and the video ends with soldiers shouting and telling the prisoners to stay down, a soldiers steps on a prisoner's head in a very insulting way, and I'm sure if he was ever released he will carry arms again to kill "arabs".Ahmad DZAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12888511595118330870noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494887414062418056.post-91942554402172754602008-07-25T05:26:00.000-07:002008-07-25T06:33:06.343-07:00The Revolution Won't Be InternetizedGil Scott Heron has an amazing poem from the early 70s states that "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" .. in places like Sudan, it won't be televised and it won't be internetized either.<br /><br />Many sudanese youth have joined the Facebook group "<a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21600478366&ref=ts">Unblock Youtube In Sudan Now</a>" and expressed their disagreement with the blocking. and many helped by posting proxies and IP addresses that are not tracked by the National Telecommunication Corporation.<br />Still nobody knows the reason behind NTC's blocking for youtube, some would assume it's because of pornographic videos, in other words it's blocked for moral reasons. but why does Youtube have porn in it? well, it doesn't, Youtube team removes any video with sexual content, but I guess it can't define arabic text, but reporting abuse or "Flagging" a video is enough to have it removed. NTC filtering system works in a similar way, it searches keywords from the title, tags, or even the comments to block certain pages/videos on Youtube or anyother website, I've seen this happen before. but why blocking the entire website now? without even explaining why, I think it's just another attempt to suffocate freedom of speech, specially in times like these, with <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/07/14/europe/EU-War-Crimes-Sudan.php">the international court after Omar</a>, they don't want someone with opposition to the official story about how every sudanese citizen supports Omar. they don't want us to see the documantries that have been posted lately about the "<a href="http://www.ordoesitexplode.com/me/2007/06/voice_from_a_su.html">ghost houses</a>" created to tourture individuals who didn't support the "salvation revolution", and with the elections coming, they don't want any anti-kizan* campaign, which is something not allowed on local newspapers, and the national TV is on their side 24/7, but Youtube, facebook, and blogs give a free space for the truth, and this is what THEY fear the most.<br />this is not a moral issue, it is political. they have always profited from ignorance, and web 2.0 is against ignorance and those fascists really hates it, so I won't be surprised if they blocked facebook or myspace next. if they did, we'll have to do more than just creating a group on the web.<br /><br />To open Youtube use this proxy: <a href="https://www.megaproxy.com/freesurf/">https://www.megaproxy.com/freesurf/</a><br />you can also open it by typing this IP address: 208.65.153.253<br />and watch this video: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8eDuH1SCQ0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8eDuH1SCQ0</a><br /><br />* Kizan is a nickname for the National Islamic Front and the ruling party the National Congress members.Ahmad DZAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12888511595118330870noreply@blogger.com89tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494887414062418056.post-71268418228713953092008-07-22T08:17:00.000-07:002010-04-22T14:10:30.240-07:00Youtube Blocked in Sudan<a href="http://zoulcolmx.blogspot.com/2010/04/i-told-you-soish-sudanese-election.html">Update: 23/4/2010 (two years later)</a><br /><br />Youtube was blocked by the Sudanese National Telecommunication Corporation, which is known for blocking porn websites, and controversial religous websites, hacking websites, etc .. but Youtube? why would they block it? Youtube is known for it's "report abuse" system, no unapropriate materials find its way to it, even the videos with sexual/violent content are not allowed for -18 users, so why would the Sudanese government block it?(yes, I believe the government is after this and it's not a conspiracy) what else other than it's freedom of speech services? I know what this fascist regime hates the most? no, not technology, they fear those who are able to use this technology. I was intending to upload a video I'm supposed to get soon from a friend who got it from a relative working for the military, the video shows extreme tourture commited on those who were prisoned at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_attack_on_Omdurman_and_Khartoum">10th of May events</a>, did someone upload it before I do? It's been moving from phone to phone by bluetooth for a while, even though I didn't see it till now but people are talking. The governemnt managed to prevent local newspapers from mentioning Kajbar Dam atrocities before and <a href="http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article23610">arrested many activists</a>.<br />what's next? Will they block blogs? facebook? myspace?Ahmad DZAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12888511595118330870noreply@blogger.com33