《苏丹史》主要内容简介：近代以来，苏丹的历史是一部充满了革命与内战的历史。20世纪90年代，苏丹曾经作为伊斯兰恐怖主义的温床，吸引了国际社会的关注，而最近，苏丹的繁荣中心地带与边缘地区之间，以及北方与南方之间的紧张关系在达尔富尔地区得以爆发。作为一名经常光顾该地区的资深学者，罗伯特。柯林斯在其最新著作中追溯了苏丹200年以来的历史，以表明今天有多少悲剧已然扎根于往昔。作者回溯至1821年，自穆罕默德•阿里（Muhammad Ali）征服该地区伊始，贯穿了英（国）埃（及）共管时期（Angl-Egyptian Condominium），直至1956年苏丹取得独立。然后作者又将焦点转到由英国人所确立的脆弱的民主制度在持续不断的教派纷争中轰然倒塌后苏丹独立的岁月。作者认为，正是这些宗教的以及种族的分裂活动，加之领导不力导致苏丹长期地持久地处于各种冲突之中。作者的写作态度坦白、直率，说理入微，对于一些复杂的议题决不畏缩不前。《苏丹史》对干苏丹这一饱受蹂躏的国家的历史将作出独特的和重要的贡献。

After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan. It is the 1960s, and he is eager to make a contribution to the new postcolonial life of his country. Back home, he discovers a stranger among the familiar faces of childhood—the enigmatic Mustafa Sa’eed. Mustafa takes the young man into his confidence, telling him the story of his own years in London, of his brilliant career as an economist, and of the series of fraught and deadly relationships with European women that led to a terrible public reckoning and his return to his native land. But what is the meaning of Mustafa’s shocking confession? Mustafa disappears without explanation, leaving the young man—whom he has asked to look after his wife—in an unsettled and violent no-man’s-land between Europe and Africa, tradition and innovation, holiness and defilement, and man and woman, from which no one will escape unaltered or unharmed. Season of Migration to the North is a rich and sensual work of deep honesty and incandescent lyricism. In 2001 it was selected by a panel of Arab writers and critics as the most important Arab novel of the twentieth century.