Sheikh Hamad El-Nil…

In my talk last night at the American University of Beirut on Malcolm X’s connections to Sudan, I had the opportunity to speak about the sacred landscapes in Sudan that Malcolm passed by but didn’t visit, such as the popular Sufi shrine of Sheikh Hamad el-Nil in Omdurman–where hundreds of people gather each week to participate in the spirited zikr ceremony and soak in the ecstasy of the whirling dervishes…