As part of the Cairo Art Book Fair public program, we present “Visual Representation of Khartoum: A Discussion of the Book Colonial Spectrum”, exploring the author Hassan Al-Nasser’s ideas on the city through creative and critical writing, tracing how the road in Khartoum shifted from a path of movement to a tool of surveillance. Presented by Modathir Abdelgadir.
Saturday, December 13, 4–5 PM, The Garden, Ghurnata – Heliopolis.
Published by The Muse multi studios, supported by AFAC. 2024.
This book and discussion will be in Arabic*
About the book:
Colonial Spectrum is a blog about the city of Khartoum, trying to excavate the city map in a style in which the writer mixes autobiography with civility and social concepts, and the writer tries to present a different structure of the text between what is literary and what is social. The book is divided into two chapters, the first about the history of Khartoum “Sper Kitchener” and the second is about the roads of Khartoum and their structure in general.
Hassan Al-Nasser is researcher, journalist, and author who holds a Master’s degree in Sociology and Anthropology from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. Hassan is interested in the modern city in the Sudanese context, in addition to other cultural interests such as literature. He is the Head of research at The Muse Multi Studios and the author of Colonial Spectrum (2024).
