The seminar and workshop were followed by several fieldtrips to potentially feasible research areas in Greater Khartoum. These trips were attended by the core research team consisting of the following participants: Muna al Ahmad, Sumaya Zakieldeen, Josepha Wessels, Vittorio Felci, Fanny Christou and the student-assistant team; Malek Alddouma, Mohammed Abdalla and Yassir Abdallah.
During these fieldvisits, the research team members visited Dar el Salaam and Tuti Island.
Dar el Salaam is a fringe area neighbourhood in the city of Omdurman (part of greater Khartoum) consisting of approximately 68 blocks, specifically designed to host families, often displaced from various parts of the country. Dar el Salaam therefore knows a high level of ethnic diversity.
In the middle of the rapidly expanding urban conurbation of Khartoum lies Tuti Island, a “rural eye in the city”, a "green eye" of rural calm that is surrounded by three main urban centres, the Three Towns: Khartoum, Khartoum North (called Bahri, large industrial centre) and Omdurman. The island is considered as a fertile land, an agricultural hub within the urbanised Khartoum. Tuti is completely surrounded by the water. The White Nile flows on its Western side, the Blue Nile surrounds it from south and east, one of its branches flows on its southern side to meet the White Nile. The is island is thus at the confluence of the White Nile and the Blue Nile.
