Shamla's voor Mabruk & Negaz

Few people still live in traditional tents, as they are heavy and they require transportation when moving, either by camels or by truck. The Rashaayda staying in this camp, came with out camels or other means of transport..

Since a Rashaayda trader from Halfa came to bring the newly woven parts of tent, Aida has been organizing the reconstruction and enlargement of the existing tents.

For events that Mabruk organizes to promote the Rashaayda cause and his position as a leader, he needs several traditional tents. By emphasizing and exposing Rashaayda culture he aims to acquire the esteem from other leaders from the Rashaayda qabila and who live in countries like Saudi Arabia, Jemen, Kuwait, Egypt and Libya. Aida is one of the few women in the camp who is still capable to make these traditional artifacts.

She has asked Negaz, an Eritrean lady, who regularly comes by to do the washing for Aida to help her with sewing the extra parts to the existing 3 tents to enlarge them.

This is the tenth sequence of PART II of the Visual Ethnography: REPRESENTING THE RASHAAYDA. It is work in progress.

This documentary will be called Aida, lioness amongst Free Lions; an extensive Visual Ethnography that will comprise several hours of video. It is work in progress. The film was shot from March till July 2006 when this community of Sudanese Rashaayda were still in exile in Eritrea, and part of the armed opposition against the government of Sudan of General Omer Al Bashir. In October 2006 the Rashaayda Free Lions and the the Beja Congress Party (rebelmovements) signed the Eastern Peace Agreement with the government of Sudan. The film focuses on Aida, who lives in the Rashaayda refugee camp in Al Gerda, near Tesseney in Western Eritrea. Aida succeeds to survive and feed her family within the network of her extended family. She is helped in the process through the relations she maintains with the coordinator of a local NGO: Fuzum, and the leader of the Free Lions rebelmovement: Mabruk Mubarak Saleem. Fuzum, who is the coordinator of the local NGO: SCPJ, eho id s good friend of Aida, also maintains close relations with Mabruk Mubarak Al Saleem (State secretary of Transportation, roads and bridges, at present), then the leader of the Free Lions movement, the armed militia of the Rashaayda.

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Music

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• Rashaayda
• Sudan
• Eritrea