{"id":70,"date":"2019-03-22T20:31:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T01:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scscme.org\/scscme\/blogs\/atassib\/?p=70"},"modified":"2019-05-24T23:55:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T04:55:48","slug":"blog-intro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scscme.org\/scscme\/blogs\/atassib\/2019\/level-systems\/regional\/blog-intro\/","title":{"rendered":"An Eye on Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">First appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/mehistorian.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/eye-on-sudan.html#more\">my older blog<\/a> on March 11, 2009.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> About two weeks or so separated the death of the famous Sudanese  novelist al-Tayyib al-Salih and the charges of war crimes made against  the Sudanese president &#8216;Umar al-Bashir by the International Criminal  Court (ICC) at The Hague. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Since Clinton&#8217;s bombing of Al-Shifa pharmaceutical company in 1998,  Sudan went under the American media radar to re-emerge with the problems  in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first acting head of state to be charged by  the ICC for war crimes. Is this a progress for international justice to  be celebrated or a precedent that will be regretted even by the people  who pushed so hard for it? <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Since Clinton&#8217;s bombing of Al-Shifa pharmaceutical company in 1998,  Sudan went under the American media radar to re-emerge with the problems  in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first acting head of state to be charged by  the ICC for war crimes. Is this a progress for international justice to  be celebrated or a precedent that will be regretted even by the people  who pushed so hard for it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> It is ironic that al-Salih most celebrated novel &#8220;Season of Migration to the North&#8221; dealt with the  South-North cultural relations, the same relations that are souring these days due to the civil war in Darfur and the alleged genocide being committed by the government-supported Janjaweed militias. Al-Bashir&#8217;s response to the charges of the ICC <g class=\"gr_ gr_40 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar multiReplace\" id=\"40\" data-gr-id=\"40\">were<\/g> far from the ethereal language of al-Salih. In <g class=\"gr_ gr_39 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar multiReplace\" id=\"39\" data-gr-id=\"39\">a orchestrated<\/g> public appearance of al-Bashir in northern Darfur (among his supporters) he used the, now famous, &#8220;shoe&#8221;  symbol to tells us what he thought of the ICC charges. However, I would have to say that <g class=\"gr_ gr_12 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"12\" data-gr-id=\"12\">al-Zaidi&#8217;s<\/g> shoes flying in Bush&#8217;s face tell a <g class=\"gr_ gr_16 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_hide gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Style multiReplace replaceWithoutSep replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"16\" data-gr-id=\"16\">completely  different<\/g> story than the charges of ICC being &#8220;on al-Bashir&#8217;s shoe&#8221;  (symbolizing his utter disdain for the ICC and its backers). <g class=\"gr_ gr_17 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Style multiReplace\" id=\"17\" data-gr-id=\"17\">Al-Zaidi  was<\/g> empowered by his shoe when he used as a medium of expression,  whereas al-Bashir seemed rather helpless and out maneuvered.<br> While Mustafa Sa&#8217;eed, the main protagonist of &#8220;Season of Migration to the North&#8221;, conquered the west with his southern charm and masculinity, al-Bashir looks <g class=\"gr_ gr_37 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Style multiReplace\" id=\"37\" data-gr-id=\"37\">today  rather<\/g> emasculated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About two weeks or so separated the death of the famous Sudanese novelist al-Tayyib al-Salih and the charges of war crimes made against the Sudanese president &#8216;Umar al-Bashir by the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[52,47],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regional","tag-dictatorships","tag-sudan","wpcat-17-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scscme.org\/scscme\/blogs\/atassib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scscme.org\/scscme\/blogs\/atassib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scscme.org\/scscme\/blogs\/atassib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scscme.org\/scscme\/blogs\/atassib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scscme.org\/scscme\/blogs\/atassib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.scscme.org\/scscme\/blogs\/atassib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"http:\/\/www.scscme.org\/scscme\/blogs\/atassib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scscme.org\/scscme\/blogs\/atassib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scscme.org\/scscme\/blogs\/atassib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scscme.org\/scscme\/blogs\/atassib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scscme.org\/scscme\/blogs\/atassib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}