Eid Mubarak! M Train has wrapped (thanks to BRIC!) and we’re back to our regularly scheduled programming. In this episode, Ahmed talks to poet to Dalia Elhassan about antiblackness, the meaning of Eid when quarantined in an intergenerational family, and the impact of the Khartoum Massacre on how the Sudanese diaspora observes Eid. Plus: Dalia shares a poem.
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Get Dalia’s chapbook in the New Generation African Poets Box Set: http://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/new-generation-african-poets-a-chapbook-box-set-sita/
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