Sudanese Culinary Anthropology by Omer Al Tijani 

As part of GU-Q’s Seeing Sudan: Politics Through Art Hiwaraat Conference, CIRS hosted a community lunch led by pharmacist-turned-chef Omer Al Tigani. The lunch talk was an exploration of how Sudanese food serves as an archive of memory, identity, and cultural continuity in times of upheaval. Omer will walk us through the history and origins of Sudanese cuisine, reflecting on its role in sustaining communities, narrating histories, and everyday practices that carry the memory forward. He is also the author of the The Sudanese Kitchen book and “Humble Salt: Archiving the Sudanese Kitchen,” essay which appeared in After Memory: Essays on the Sudanese Archive.