With this widely shared cartoon, Albaih wanted to evoke the historic images of other African-American athletes who took a firm position on civil liberties.
[3] Also in 2016, Albaih and ten other visual artists from the Middle East took a road trip across parts of the United States, exploring and commenting on US civil rights and relations with the citizens of other countries.
[12] On Al Jazeera online from Qatar[13] Albaih made a personal statement about the continuing dangers of a counter-revolution against the Sudanese revolution of 2018/19, as he wrote "that replacing old dictators with younger ones will not solve the region's problems.
"[14] In the British newspaper The Guardian, he declared: "Coming from Sudan, a country that is both located in Africa and part of the Middle East, I carry the baggage of one of the most “complicated” areas in the world.
[19] At the 2022 art exhibition documenta fifteen in Germany, Albaih participated with The Walls Have Ears, his sound installation of stories about asylum seekers in Denmark.