Soudan 2019, année zéro

Soudan 2019, année zéro (transl. Sudan 2019, Year Zero) is a book about the Sudanese revolution, published in French in 2021. It contains descriptions, commentaries and photographs of the protestors' sit-in area during the weeks in May and June 2019 that led up to the Khartoum massacre. As additional visual documents, the book contains images by Sudanese documentary photographers, illustrating different stages and social backgrounds of the revolution up to the destruction of the sit-in by security forces on 3 June 2019. The book was edited and written by French political scientist Jean-Nicolas Bach and the director of the French cultural centre – Institut français – in Khartoum, Fabrice Mongiat. Additional text was contributed by Azza Ahmed Abdel Aziz, Azza Mustafa Mohammed Ahmed, Duha Bakri, Hiba Diab, Hind Mahmoud Yousif Hussein, Hind Meddeb, Jean-Luc Fauguet, Mohamed Abdelbagi G. Bakhit, Mohamed Musa Ibrahim, Osama Abu Zied, Sadam Faris, Mohammed Ahmad Enour, Tamer Mohammed, Ahmed Abd Elkreem, Said Ahmed and Yasir Awad Abdalla Eltahir. Sudanese poetry of protest and resistance is presented through works by ar, Nylawo Ayul, Youssef Elbadawi Hamad, ar, Mahjoub Sharif, ar as well as by anonymous poets. The photographers who contributed their documentary images were Ahmed Ano, Duha Mohammed, Eythar Gubara, Hind Meddeb, Issam Hafiez, Jean-Nicolas Bach, Metche Jaafar, Mohamed Keeta, Mohamed Noureldin, Mohammed Alasmani, Osama Abu Zied, Saad Eltinay, Sari Omer, Suha Barakat and Ula Osman. In addition, the book's front and back cover show geographical maps of the protest sites in Khartoum with descriptions of the various places of action and artistic creation. Pictures of murals and graffiti, documentary videos and an interactive map of the sites have also been published online at sudanrevolutionart.org On April 11, 2019, the dictatorial and Islamist government of Omar al-Bashir, which had ruled over the Sudan for thirty years, was overthrown by popular protests.