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Sudan Events<\/strong><\/p>\n This novel appeared in two parts in the original Arabic, the first in 1971 and the second in 1976. Sudan Events This novel appeared in two parts in the original Arabic, the first in 1971 and the second in 1976. Bandarshah is now retired from a government post in education and has returned to his old village. He had retired, he says, because he was fed up and had, in fact, retired early. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-this-weeks-issue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13700,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13698\/revisions\/13700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBandarshah is now retired from a government post in education and has returned to his old village.
\nHe had retired, he says, because he was fed up and had, in fact, retired early.
\nHe is catching up with his old friends.
\nThings are not as good as they were, his friends explain, but the old men reminisce and tell tales about the past.
\nSa\u2019eed the Owl, for example, is now Sa\u2019eed Asha \u2018l-Baytat (it means\u00a0he who gives supper to hungry girls, i.e. is chivalrous and generous). He had been the assistant of the headmaster, doing all the odd jobs for him.
\nEvery time he was paid, he had the amount logged and gave the money to the headmaster to keep.
\nThis went on for ten years. Once the headmaster retired, Sa\u2019eed struck.
\nHe demanded all his money back, knowing full well the headmaster did not have the money.
\nIn return Sa\u2019eed demanded the headmaster\u2019s daughter as his wife.
\nAt first he was refused but, in the end, the headmaster had no choice but to accept.
\nSalih gives us other such as whimsical stories, such as Taher Wad Raawasi\u2019s battle with the\u00a0bitch of a fish, who always outsmarts him.
\nSome show the changing situation in the area, such as the ousting of Makhtar Wad Hasab ar-Rasoul as the chair of the local cooperative by the younger generation, not because of any specific wrongdoing but just because the younger generation want to take over.
\nBut the main story is, of course, about Bandarshah hah (it means\u00a0ruler of the city). Bandarshah was a legendary king, who may have been a Christian king of Nubia or an Abyssinian king.
\nNo-one seems to know. Isa Wad Dau al-Beit is, one day, dressed up in finery and is immediately nicknamed\u00a0Bandarshah.
\nThe significance of this only becomes clear later.
\nWe know that Bandarshah and his grandson, Meryoud, are very successful.
\nMeheimeed recounts a story when he was fifteen that Meryoud, the same age as he, came to visit his grandfather and showed supreme self-confidence when buying a calf from the grandfather.
\nHowever, some of the main characters recount dreams that they have had of Bandarshah, which seem to mix the real and the legendary Bandarshah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"