Moma/sharjah Art Foundation Ibrahim el-salahi: prison notebook, paperback/ibrahim el-salahi

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Sudanese artist, writer, critic, cultural diplomat Ibrahim El-Salahi (born 1930) is one of the critical figures of African and Arabic modernism.

While serving as Sudan's Undersecretary of Culture in 1975, El-Salahi was imprisoned without trial and endured six months of deprivation in the notorious Cooper (now Kober) Prison.

During a period of house arrest that followed, he exorcised his experience in the Prison Notebook , an intensely personal work that is both a major historical doc.