Al Siir, Khartoum's best fixer
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| April 10, 2008 7:49 PM
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I'm sure Sudanese hospitality is not an Arab trait. Even the Sudanese who don't have much to offer will share it with you in all cases. This happens in Ghana not Syria.
| April 11, 2008 3:29 PM
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Ahh, al-Sir. There are the young, flashy Sudanese recently
returned from the UK who can get you around town in an
air-conditioned car for for $200/day, but dollar for dollar
I agree that your man is the best fixer in the city. Please
remind him that he has my shirt.
| April 22, 2008 1:11 PM
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Al Siir said you had his pants
| April 22, 2008 1:36 PM
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And Amal, why we refer to "Arab customs"? Because try as we might, journalists occasionally blunder into using lazy cliches. Point taken.
What do you think?
Rob Crilly in Jerusalem
Rob Crilly is a freelance journalist based in Jerusalem writing for The Sunday Telegraph and The Daily Mail. He spent...
Hey Rob,
Why is it that whenever foreigners refer to an act
of hospitality by a sudanese person, they refer to it as
'Arab' customs? Another person made a blog named 'Arab
hospitality' about a woman who insisted they must have
lunch in a small Sudanese village. Surely, the blog title
should have been 'African hospitality, its Africa after all.
Its as if Africans are not as hospitable as Arabs and as if
Sudanese people are Arab and not Africans.