The Italian Tourism Co - Sudan

01/03/2025

May Allah bless you and your family
Ramadan Kareem 🇸🇩

09/04/2024

Eid Mubarak to all our friends and colleagues! 🌙🎉

The holy month has come to an end and we wish you a joyous Eid filled with love, laughter, and blessings. The situation in Sudan is still very difficult but we hope the spirit of Eid can bring people closer to Allah and to their loved ones. 🫂

28/03/2024

While in Sudan it is the holy month of Ramadan, in the Catholic religion it is time to celebrate Easter, the resurrection, symbolised by a dove and an olive branch. 🙏🏼

We hope that the dove of peace will deposit the olive branch on the land at war.

May the dove fly over all Sudan, bringing peace and the resurrection of life. 🕊

22/03/2024

Ramadan is always a joyful time of family sharing and is characterized by special foods and drinks that are only consumed during this period.

This applies to all Arab countries, but today we wanted to show you the typical foods of Ramadan in Sudan. 🤩

First of all, like all Sudanese meals, the goal is to share food, so people all gather to eat around a single big plate characterized by different dishes. 🫂

Apart from the classic Sudanese food like foul or tamiya, the ones that definitely cannot be missed are balila, asida, and gurrasa. All the meal is accompanied by different drinks such as karkade, but the most important one during Ramadan is Abrè (pic 4-5), which is prepared through a slow process starting from sorghum, which you mix with herbs and spices creating sheets that are then toasted. To end the meal, different sweet dishes are served like kunafa, perfect to be savored with the ever-present chai.

This year's Ramadan will be very different for millions of people in Sudan, considering the severe food crisis in the country, and all of them will not be able to enjoy the classic foods we just described. Nevertheless, we continue our prayers for peace and a return to normalcy as soon as possible. 🙏

11/03/2024

We wish Ramadan Kareem to all our friends and colleagues 🫂

Despite the difficult situation that many people in Sudan are living in, we hope Allah may shower all people with blessings and protect them. During this Holy month, we wish all of you happiness and tranquillity with your families as we continue our prayers for peace. 🙏

23/02/2024

This black line across the desert is the tarmac road that connects Dongola to Wadi Halfa, the main road that can bring you to the Egyptian border. 🛣️

One year ago this road was normally trafficked, as it was a very important connection between the two countries for their trade. A very long road that crosses thousands of kilometers of sand and dunes, to connect Sudan and make it prosper. 🚗

Now the purpose of this road is very different, the trade between the countries is much less, and this became the road of hope, where displaced people try to reach the border to enter Egypt. 😔

We used to travel along this road a lot, proudly showing the country to many travelers coming either from the south or the north. We continue to pray for the end of the conflict and we hope to be able to travel again soon on this road, back and forth as we used to. 💞

25/01/2024

Sudan is a land woven with the threads of history and speaks through its ancient sites - an anthology of events etched in stone. Each ruin, a chapter; each artifact, a verse. 🏛️

A journey to Sudan is a journey into the past that echoes the greatness of its people and is a testimony to the milestones that can be achieved when humans work all together. 🫂

Beyond being the soul of Sudanese identity, these archaeological treasures are the heritage of all of us. 🌍

We must preserve them! Not only to safeguard history but as a duty to our shared humanity. 🔴

The war in Sudan continues but we don't lose hope for a better future, where we can start to build again symbols of greatness, welfare, and peace 🙏

16/01/2024

11/01/2024

OUR NEW BRAND IS BORN ✨👇

In recent years we have been organizing several trips to countries bordering Sudan to meet the requests of various clients who were very satisfied with our services in Sudan. 😊

Given the current situation in the country, we decided to improve and enrich our portfolio of destinations and created a new brand: Beyond Borders. 🎉

Now you can travel with us also to South Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti, Socotra, and more unexplored destinations.🌍

While we pray for peace and wait to be able to organize trips in Sudan again, we have taken this new exciting side path to lead you to newly emerging destinations! ✈️

🔴 Join us and follow our page to check all our new proposals and group departures! 🔗✨

https://www.facebook.com/byndborders

15/12/2023

In the last months, we have been sharing with you beautiful pictures of Sudan and its people to raise awareness but, more importantly, we tried our best to actively support the Sudanese people 🫂

Through our NGO Friends of Sudan Culture & Environment, we have been helping for months hospitals and refugee camps that support people in need, and thanks to the donations of our NGO supporters, we will continue to send help to the last remaining hospital in Omdurman and to two food shelters that are hosting 5.000 refugees. ❣️

But after eight months into the conflict, our help is sadly minimal compared to the millions of people in need and the psychological effects of war are causing as much damage as bombs and violence. Many Sudanese are losing hope; for peace, for a return to normalcy, for a future. 😔

With this post, we would like to promote a new initiative of our NGO called "A Postcard of Hope", a blend of the beautiful pictures of Sudan with the aid towards the hospitals and refugee camps that we are supporting. 🏥

With a small donation to this campaign, you will receive a postcard of your choice that can be a keepsake for yourself or a gift for your loved ones. 📬

If you want you can find more info about this initiative at this link. ➡️🔗 https://donorbox.org/a-postcard-of-hope

05/12/2023

The situation in Sudan is dramatic, there is very limited information in daily newspapers and TV but many organizations are determined to keep the focus on this situation ⬇️

We are very proud and grateful to announce that the Museo Egizio, Torino is hosting on Thursday 07th of December the event "Focus on Sudan" with many important guests as the curator of the Egyptian Museum of Turin, the association of the Cinema Museum of Turin and Emergency. 🏥

This event represents the first in a series of initiatives aimed at raising awareness and public opinion, humanizing the narrative, and stimulating concrete actions in support of the Sudanese people. 🙏

We are honored to have been invited and be part of this event: our colleague Carla Piazza, will be part of the discussion “Why culture is a vital part of the equation” ❣️

We kindly suggest you join us at this event, as it is open to the public from 14.30 to 18.00. 🫂

You can book your free seats at the following link: ⬇️ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/focus-on-sudan-tickets-770541298767

30/11/2023

We are happy to share with you this great opportunity to take part in an interesting lesson, led by the University of Venice "Ca Foscari", on the occasion of the celebration of the 50 years of work of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Sudan, which unearthed in the last half a century some of the most beautiful archaeological treasures that Sudan has to offer. We can't wait to participate and go through all the great achievements the Missione Archeologica Italiana in Sudan - Jebel Barkal has made ❣️

Domani a quest'ora saremo alle prime battute della nostra giornata di studi: "Jebel Barkal. Half a Century of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Sudan (Aula Baratto, Dorsoduro 3246, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia). Tra gli ospiti: Paola Buzi e Angelo Colonna di Egittologia e Civiltà copta dell'Università Sapienza di Roma, che ha accolto la missione con Sergio Donadoni dal 1973 al 2004; Alessandro Roccati, successivo direttore fino al 2010; Karla Kroeper e Christian Perzlmeier, con il loro progetto quasi trentennale nel sito di Naga (https://naga-project.com/naga-online/) ; Pavel Onderka e Vlastimil Jung Vrtal, che ci racconteranno dei loro scavi a Wad Ben Naga, sito in parte coevo a quello di Jebel Barkal; Nuha Abdelhafiz, che testimonierà le relazioni tra le due università di Venezia e di Khartoum. E poi ci saremo tutti noi membri della Missione Archeologica Italiana in Sudan - Jebel Barkal !
Celebriamo questi lunghi 50 anni, sì, ma celebriamo soprattutto il Sudan, il suo patrimonio archeologico, la sua gente, che da decenni ci ospita e collabora con tutti noi alla realizzazione di un progetto culturale che diventi una forza e una risorsa per la stessa popolazione di questo fiero, tormentato, straordinario paese.

Link al convegno: https://unive.zoom.us/j/87466460227?pwd=dEtLNlYvYnk1V0IvTGw2aEYyTzZHUT09

Italy in Sudan
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici - Università Ca' Foscari Veneziaa