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It is one of the most accomplished and evocative portraits ever written about Sudanese society at the time of independence. Read Lyrics Alley by Leila Aboulela available from Rakuten Kobo. Just to root for the home town crew, Evry sou 1 Katie blew. Katie Casey was baseball mad, Had the fever and had it bad. Moving from the alleys of Sudan to cosmopolitan Cairo and a decimated post-colonial Britain, Lyrics Alley is a sweeping tale of desire and loss, faith, despair and reconciliation. Lyrics edit Below are the lyrics of the 1908 version, which is out of copyright. It is not until Nur begins to assert himself outside the strict cultural limits of his parents that both his own spirit and the frayed bonds of his family can begin to mend. Lyrics Alley is an evocative description of the struggle between tradition and modernization, a conflict that is still being fought in present-day Islamic culture.'-New Internationalist (3 stars) A tender love story a family saga, and a portrait of 1950s Sudan teetering on the brink of modernity. But when Mahmoud's son, Nur, the handsome heir to his business empire, suffers a debilitating accident, the family is suddenly divided in the face of an uncertain future.Īs British rule nears its end, Sudan is torn between modernizing influences and the call of traditions past - a conflict reflected in the growing tensions between Mahmoud's two wives: the younger, Nabilah, longs to return to Egypt and escape the dust of 'backward-looking' Sudan and Waheeba, who lives traditionally in the confines of her open-air kitchen. In 1950s Sudan, the powerful and sprawling Abuzeid dynasty has amassed a fortune through their trading firm, with Mahmoud Bey at its helm.

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