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Saudi writer and novelist Ahmad Abu Dahman, who passed away earlier this month, did not merely pass through geography or interpret place in…

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The fall of the Sudanese city of El-Fasher in November led to horrendous reports of mass killing. In recent days, British parliamentarians were told…