174:, which was followed by five more novels and three collections of short stories. In his stories that take place in East Darfur, he made use of the local style of language and specific cultural references of his native region, which first alienated some readers in other regions of Sudan. In an interview with Sudanow magazine in 2017, Ishaq stated that there was no other option for him, but to make his characters talk like they do in real life.
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Africans have intermarried and began to look like each other not only physically, but also in their way of speaking, the way they build their houses, and so on, which brings us back to the issue of Sudanese identity." Several of Ishaq's novels take
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