…when we reach the north I will call you at a time God willing you are not sleeping…
-Email from Soliman KhairAllah, December 18, 2023, 6:17am
After a half year of urban war, KhairAllah and his son Soliman have decided to move the family out of Omdurman up north where there is no fighting, but he seems worried that I might be roused from sleep by a call that they have safely arrived. On the Darb I tried to explain the rotation of the earth to KhairAllah, how it was night in America when it was day in Sudan. He never believed me because he thought I meant to say therefore it was always night in America.