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Reem Abbas

Reem Abbas is a Sudanese journalist. She graduated from the American University in Cairo

June 2023

  • Author Fatin Abbas in a selfie holding a #KeepEyesOnSudan sign

    ‘Khartoum was lit with savage fire’: five Sudanese writers on the country’s nightmare conflict

    As lives are lost, families separated and cultural institutions destroyed, female authors, artists and activists speak of their anger, fear and grief as war rages in their homeland

August 2014

  • A man looks through the remains of a house destroyed by a Sudan Armed Forces airstrike, in Tabanya, in South Kordofan, a region of Sudan, in 2012.

    Guardian Africa network
    Can art help to bring peace to Sudan?

    Activists have so far failed to unite Sudanese citizens against the conflicts ravaging their country. Now, an art collective and a film-maker are trying to change that, writes Reem Abbas

October 2012

  • Sudanese journalists

    Guardian Comment Network
    double quotation markSecret reading in Sudan

    Reem Abbas for Open Democracy, part of the Guardian Comment Network
    Reem Abbas: The banning of books by the Sudanese authorities has inspired a new reading culture in Khartoum