Osman Nusairi
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Osman Nusairi
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Osman Nusairi works as a consultant on the MAC project. He has guided the research into the Sudanese objects at the Royal Engineers Museum, has co-authored research publications and provided translations. Where he has substantially contributed to entries on this archive you will see the identifier ON.
Osman studied in Sudan and the UK. He has been living in London since 1972 but has remained involved in Sudanese issues.He writes plays in both Arabic and English as well as translates. He was a lecturer at The Institute of Music and Drama and a director in the National Theatre in Sudan before coming to the UK, where he continued to research and write, for the BBC and elsewhere. His research and translation work on the Mahdiya includes translating Arabic texts on the Mahdi, including volumes of correspondence and memoranda, and other materials written by Sudanese historians and contemporaries of the Mahdiya.
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Making African Connections
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Title | Alternate label | Class |
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Lady Watson's Scrapbook | Physical Object | |
Letter from Gordon | Physical Object | |
Photograph of Lord Wolseley | Physical Object | |
Photograph of Sir Evelyn Baring | Physical Object | |
Arabic letter from ʿUthmān Abū-Bakr Diqna | Physical Object | |
Arabic note from Gordon | Physical Object | |
Arabic letter to Nuṣḥī Pāshā | Physical Object | |
Photograph of Maj. H.H. Kitchener | Physical Object | |
Rātib in leather pouch | Physical Object | |
Sketch Map of Sudan in February 1879, drawn by Col. C. G. Gordon | Physical Object | |
Finial of the Mahdī’s qubba | Physical Object | |
The Graphic | Physical Object | |
railing | Physical Object |
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The jibba: clothing for Sufi and soldier | Text | |
Flags of the Mahdiyya | Text | |
Research trip to Sudan (March 2020) | Event | |
The rātib | Text | |
A note on the term anṣār | Text | |
The Role of Women in the Mahdist Period | Event | |
Interview with Osman Nusairi | Event | |
The legacy and perception of Mahdism in Sudan. | Event | |
The importance of Mahdism in Sudan and why UK museum's presentation of this history is controversial. | Event | |
How did Mahdism hold the country together? | Event |
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Interview with Dr Amani Yousif Bashir, Director of the Sheikan Museum (English Version) | Event | |
Omdurman Sufis | Event |