How Khalid Albaih navigates the role of art in political resistance in Sudan
By Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi
Khalid Albaih is a Sudanese creative, political cartoonist, freelance journalist, art activist and cultural producer currently based in Doha. Khalid was born in Romania to a Sudanese diplomat and a social justice activist, and has lived in exile since the age of 11.
In fact, all Khalid’s works, from his cartoons (Khartoons, as he has coined them, after the Sudanese capital, Khartoum) to his articles, speak a lot about the complexity of the Middle East – particularly in resistance to the reductive portrayals and stereotypes by Western knowledge producers and their hegemonic control on how we see Middle Eastern issues.
“Whenever I do a cartoon about Sudan or write about Egypt or Palestine, I acknowledge that, yes, we are a mess. But you – the West – you are part of that mess.”
How Khalid Albaih navigates the role of art in political resistance in Sudan
By Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi