Members play dominoes, at the Sudanese Culture and Social Club on Nov. 25, 2025 (Credit: Melissa Manouchakian)
“It’s very hard for me to witness the war from afar. It’s the country I grew up in, and I’m not able to do anything,” says the President of the Sudan Club, Kamal Mursal Mahmoud.On a cold evening in Hamra, the Sudan Culture and Community Club glows softly from within. Inside, the world feels warmer: yellow light, a football match flickering on a TV, men laughing over clacking domino tiles and photographs of Sudan’s countryside hanging high on the walls.For the roughly 6,000 Sudanese in Lebanon, according to the club records, life unfolds between two front lines, the war tearing apart Sudan from afar and the war between Hezbollah and Israel on Lebanon’s soil for about the same time, in spite of the extremely fragile truce concluded last year.For Mariam, the club’s 19-year-old youth representative, this double pressure is constant. “I am a...
“It’s very hard for me to witness the war from afar. It’s the country I grew up in, and I’m not able to do anything,” says the President of the Sudan Club, Kamal Mursal Mahmoud.On a cold evening in Hamra, the Sudan Culture and Community Club glows softly from within. Inside, the world feels warmer: yellow light, a football match flickering on a TV, men laughing over clacking domino tiles and photographs of Sudan’s countryside hanging high on the walls.For the roughly 6,000 Sudanese in Lebanon, according to the club records, life unfolds between two front lines, the war tearing apart Sudan from afar and the war between Hezbollah and Israel on Lebanon’s soil for about the same time, in spite of the extremely fragile truce concluded last year.For Mariam, the club’s 19-year-old youth representative, this double pressure is...
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