Sudan Retold Edition 1½ is part of a long-term artistic project that began a decade ago, bringing together artists, writers, curators, and cultural workers responding to a Sudan shaped by many cultures, religions, languages, and histories—yet often pushed into a single, linear narrative. Through fiction, personal memory, archival fragments, and visual storytelling, the contributors reflect a country that has always been more complex than the stories told about it. This second volume of the book project was developed during a fragile transitional period—the revolution, interrupted by renewed repression—the military coup, and continued across geographies as the contributors were displaced by the ongoing and devastating war. It brings together chapters from the last book and new chapters, hence the title 1 1/2.

What began as an effort to tell Sudanese (his)stories differently has become a way of holding on to memory and place when both are under threat. This book, and the exhibitions that launch and introduce it, are not historical overviews. They are fragments, fictions, testimonies, and visual narratives. They draw on personal archives, oral histories, forgotten objects, and speculative figures—not to reconstruct a singular past, but to open space for layered, plural understandings of Sudan.

Contributors: Ahmed Abushakeema, Alaa Satir, Amna Elhassan, Atong Atem, Ayat R. H. Ahmed, Badri Ibrahim, Bokhari Hamid, Dar Al Naim, Elamin Gasim, Enas Ismail Hag Mohamed Eltayeb, Enas Satir, Hazim Alhussain, Husam Kabri, Khalid Abdel Rahman, Locale, Malaz A. O. Mohamed, Mawadda Kamil, Mazin Gamar, Mohmed Dardiri, Mohamed Alhajjay, Nahid Abunama-Elgadi, Ola Hassanain, Omer Eltigani, Rayan El Amry, Reem Aljeally, Reem Khalaf, Reham Mohamed, Sahar Abdalla, Dr. Salma Egail, Sara Amin, Sarra Ibrahm Saeed, Sammany Hajo, Suzi Mirghani, Tala Gadir, Wael Al Sanosi, Waleed Mohammad, Yasir Faiz, Yasmeen Abdullah Ahmed, Yousif Elamin

Editors: Khalid Albaih, Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann, Suzi Mirghani
Coordinator: Zainab Gaafar

Curatorial support: Rahiem Shadad
Publisher: Almas Art Foundation, London
Partner: Georgetown University in Qatar, Alhosh Gallery Qatar
Designer: Locale, Aala Sharif