Nine Kurdish and three Sudanese women.

The workshop, which started on the second of January and ended at one o’clock today, 13 February 2021. Women who gave us great confidence that change is inevitably coming. The Intellectual, the Politician, the Comrade of the Struggle, the Wife, the Pain, the divorcee….. etc were inside them. Women who emphasised through their great march that feminist solidarity is a necessity for social justice and just peace. Women from the countryside and from the cities. Women who belonged to the land and nostalgic songs.

This project was implemented on the ground with a slogan that has a political significance that says loudly that Only We Can Write Our Strories. The objectives were based on believing in promoting migrant women and reflecting their real roles and our rejection of the pathetic role of the victim. The project continues, which Dr. Ishraga Mustafa Hamid undertake voluntarily and lovingly because our paths are common and the sparkle of our tears shines from the Nile Forum and embraces all conscious, solidarity and courageous women.

Throughout the duration of the workshop (every Saturday from ten to one o’clock), I could not stop thinking and reflecting on the great experiences the participants presented. The tears that accompanied most of these biographies during the reading illuminated many common pains and woes, as well as our abilities to give, and opened rivers in the soul that flowed into our cognitive awareness of the unity of our destinies.

We are the women of the world whose rights are violated. All love to the participants and to dear Maria Abass who initiated asking me if it was possible to prepare this workshop and of course I agreed with the determination of the Nile’s absolute belief in the value of giving, we are now richer. A balance of love, joint action and networking for the common cause. The networking through which we achieved this creative workshop as a collaboration between Mandi Girls Arts and Kurdish feminist voices. Perhaps I need a lifetime of books about these beautiful women and their acute awareness of the need to exchange knowledge and experiences. Is there any fruit of this workshop?

The next workshop will start next Saturday, 20 February 2021, with Eritrean women who write in Arabic and some Sudanese women who want to write their biographies, as a joint space between Arts of Banat Mendy and the Eritrean Women’s Network.