{"id":59179,"date":"2025-12-25T19:06:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T16:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=59179"},"modified":"2025-12-25T19:06:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T16:06:17","slug":"kamel-your-speech-was-rich-but-the-appetizers-spoiled-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/25\/kamel-your-speech-was-rich-but-the-appetizers-spoiled-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamel\u2026 Your speech was rich, but the appetizers spoiled it!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Najy Al-Karshabi<\/strong><\/p>\n

As raindrops scattered over me on a beautiful Istanbul morning, I found myself echoing with \u201cQaddour\u201d my longing for you. The night of exile had worn me down; the specter of your memory made my heart weep. And just before purifying myself by lamenting a bleeding homeland\u2014over which drones of destruction roam\u2014I was jolted awake by my phone ringing with the special tone assigned to Professor Hassan Ismail. A man who has been quietly helping me wipe away grief since the very first gunshot, as we received waves of sorrow at the studio door: for loved ones, family, neighbors, and memories hanging on the walls of Khartoum.<\/p>\n

In his confident voice, he asked:
\n\u201cDid you listen to the Prime Minister\u2019s address at the Security Council?\u201d<\/p>\n

My heart clenched and my emotions trembled with anxiety. For days I had been following a flood of frightening \u201cleaks\u201d and a deeply discouraging report by SUNA about the visit\u2014 all of it emanating from the army\u2019s media machine, promoting the idea of giving a blank check to the quartet whose vision threatens both the army and the state.<\/p>\n

So I replied in a subdued, resigned voice, believing those \u2018big men\u2019 and \u2018big women\u2019:
\n\u201cSo that\u2019s it\u2014they\u2019ve handed them the country, the army, my memories, Qaddour\u2019s longing, and Al-Hout\u2019s sorrows\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, no,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s an excellent initiative. Just listen, then we\u2019ll meet.\u201d<\/p>\n

I listened. From the very first sentence, the Prime Minister placed the world before a harsh mirror. He held the international community accountable for the cost of delay, reminding it that the price of silence has been paid in Sudanese blood, in the tearing of the social fabric, in cities reduced to ruins, and in families forced into exile.<\/p>\n

I went back once again to read SUNA and the media machine. I found the Prime Minister\u2019s speech to be a complete, full-course meal. Yet I could not savor its taste\u2014nor could millions of Sudanese. The reason was that the appetizers served to us at the outset were drenched in salt, vinegar, and the bitter colocynth of the Kizan\u2014a bitterness that spoiled the elegance of both the initiative and the address.<\/p>\n

My dear sirs\u2014Chairman Al-Burhan and Prime Minister\u2014move swiftly to dry up the sources of this bitter Kizan poison. Serve us appropriate appetizers, in appropriate dishes, before offering such a rich and substantial meal. Otherwise, this very kind of suspicion will persist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Najy Al-Karshabi As raindrops scattered over me on a beautiful Istanbul morning, I found myself echoing with \u201cQaddour\u201d my longing for you. The night of exile had worn me down; the specter of your memory made my heart weep. And just before purifying myself by lamenting a bleeding homeland\u2014over which drones of destruction roam\u2014I was …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59179","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59181,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59179\/revisions\/59181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}