taken from a boat on the nile as the sun sank lower and lower.
1. make it beautiful - the shondes
2. home - lcd soundsystem
3. rill rill - sleigh bells
4. montanita - ratatat
5. colours - hot chip
6. blue lips - regina spektor
7. cosmic love - florence and the machine
8. map of the world - monsters of folk
9. used to be - beach house
10. we fell off the roof - seabear
mamoun and amelia before she left for the airport.
people keep leaving this place. most recently, my pal amelia.
it seems like, with each departure, for better or worse, sudan takes on a new flavor. when louise was around, sudan had the flavor of lentil soup and too-long walks under the too-hot sun. when amelia was around, it had the flavor of watermelon-rind chutney and trips to the souk.
nowadays, it has the flavor of shiro and bus rides to places farther away.
i celebrated my 25th birthday on a rooftop in omdurman with beet chocolate cake, homemade ginger ale, la roux, the xx and some dancing. i don't know that i ever gave much thought to where i'd be or what i'd be doing when i turned 25. if i did, i'm sure it never occurred to me that i'd be living in sudan. and yet, there i was and here i am. amazing.
jemma's too fast for the shutter. 
the rooftop before people arrived.
me fussing with some candles. 
why hold the camera still when you get pictures like these?
pictured below is fuul. i eat it nearly once a day. (i actually had some last night!) it speaks to my failure as a documenter that this is my first entry about fuul in six months.
fuul, at its very basic, is just mushed up beans. but that's just the beginning. you can add falafel (as seen here), eggs, tomatoes, onions, peppers, even peanut butter. you eat it with your (right) hand and bread. you eat it for breakfast and lunch and dinner. really, the possibilities are limitless. the fuul pictured here, it should be said, is fancy fuul. i'm not sure where it came from, but it was pretty damn delicious.
everybody is reaching for the fuul!
right hand and bread work in conjunction as fuul shovel. yum. (max, if you're out there, i'm sorry.)
a shop on the way to the bus station.
the view from heidi and nel's new flat.
mamoun makes a wish.
heidi in the stairwell.
a man and a doorway in omdurman.
an alley like any other.
