Qualla: Bahr al-Arab https://qualla.com/bahr-al-arab en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Bahr al-Arab https://qualla.com/bahr-al-arab Bahr al-Arab: Introduction https://qualla.com/bahr-al-arab/ The Arabs who named it Bahr al-Arab called it the Sea of the Arabs, though it is not a sea and is not particularly large. The Dinka who have lived along its southern bank for far longer simply call it the Kiir. The river flows east for roughly eight hundred kilometres through southwestern Sudan, tracing in places the international border between Sudan and South Sudan, before it feeds the Bahr el Ghazal system that in turn feeds the White Nile. The Kiir has always been a boundary. For as long as Dinka and Baggara oral traditions reach, it has been a line along which cattle-keepers from two cultures have met, traded, married, and fought.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/s/g/bahr-al-arab-wp/s9sg-bahr-al-arab-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Bahr al-Arab: Two Names, Two Peoples https://qualla.com/bahr-al-arab/ The Bahr al-Arab - probably a contraction of Nahr al-Arab, meaning River of the Arabs - marks the historical frontier between the Arabic-speaking Baggara, cattle-herding Muslims of southern Kurdufan and Darfur, and the Nilotic Dinka, cattle-herding Christians and traditionalists ...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/s/g/bahr-al-arab-wp/s9sg-bahr-al-arab-two-names-two-peoples.mp3 0:06 2 full Bahr al-Arab: From the Marrah Mountains to the Sudd https://qualla.com/bahr-al-arab/ The Bahr al-Arab rises in tributaries draining the Bongo Massif and the Marrah Mountains in Darfur, close to Sudan's borders with Chad and the Central African Republic. The Adda and Umbelasha flow east from the Bongo; the Ibrah flows south from Marrah. These streams combine to fo...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/9/s/g/bahr-al-arab-wp/s9sg-bahr-al-arab-from-the-marrah-mountains-to-the-sudd.mp3 0:06 3 full Bahr al-Arab: The War on the Frontier https://qualla.com/bahr-al-arab/ During the Second Sudanese Civil War, the Bahr al-Arab's position on the north-south frontier made it a military front. Droughts and crop failures in the early 1980s pushed various peoples of western Sudan southward. The Baggara moved south of the Bahr al-Arab into Dinka grazing ...

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