Mamoun Eltlib and Ahmed Nashadir are widely credited with bringing an entire generation of radical poets and writers into print for the first time in Sudan through the newspapers where they were cultural editors during the Islamists regime. Here, speaking from Zanzibar and Uganda where they were displaced to by the 2023 war, they discuss their friendship, Sudanese poetry and more with translator Mayada Ibrahim.

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