War Blog (Arabic)

This book is very useful for those who have not experienced the experience and atmosphere of the April 15, 2023 war inside Khartum and the rest of the cities that were directly affected by military operations, especially the Sudanese in the diaspora and non-Sudanese countries interested in Sudanese affairs. It is a documentation of a personal experience with the psychological and intellectual state I experienced during the war period, which I do not think the effects of it will end soon, and of course it will be a prominent milestone in the history of this country if it remains unified and the history of the region in general. The book is a personal life of the war atmosphere inside the city of Khartum during the first weeks of the war, in addition to one hundred articles written from December 2020 to July 2024 and published in a number of paper and electronic newspapers, the most important of which is Al-Midan newspaper, which speaks of the Sudanese Communist Party.

These articles were grouped into seven chapters, where the first chapter reviews a number of SMS messages, advice and comments that I wrote during the first two weeks of the war, which are comments that reflect the psychological state, reactions and attempts to adapt to the atmosphere of war during the early days of its outbreak, a state that I am sure asserting that the majority of the inhabitants of the capital Khartum, residents of the Darfur region, Kordofan and the states of Al-Jazeera and Sennar have gone through. In the second chapter, entitled The War Notebook, we find articles dealing with the immediate issues and challenges related to the war. The third chapter, entitled on the reform of security institutions, also contains a series of articles related to some conceptual and practical aspects related to the reform of the military institution and the rest of the security institutions. The book then moves in the fourth chapter to an important political issue that remained strongly on the table in the pre-war period and continued vigourously during the war, which is the issue of radical change as a political project with economic and social dimensions that differs in its presentation fundamentally from the rest of the other political projects on the Sudanese political arena today.

The fifth chapter, which is entitled Articles on Public Political Affairs, reviews a series of political topics that in my assessment were introductions to the war, followed by the sixth chapter, which reviews a series of articles, most of which were written before the outbreak of the war. These articles deal with a number of issues related to the struggle for power during the transitional period and the various positions of the political and military forces towards this conflict.

After that, the book moves in the sixth chapter, which includes foreign policy articles that dealt with recent developments in the Palestinian issue and the Gaza war, as well as the position on the issue of normalisation and the seriousness of this matter on the security and stability of Sudan.

The book concludes with the seventh chapter on the concept of popular resistance as one of the revolutionary means of confronting war, as this chapter contained seven articles dealing with some important theoretical aspects related to this concept.

I would like to draw the reader's attention to the fact that the book is a process of intellectual and political development during a difficult period of the country's history, and therefore it may find some different positions in the issues addressed by the book. Therefore, I deliberately wrote the history of writing each article so that the reader can follow the course of this development according to the developments of events.