This talk focuses ethnographic attention on Emirati land and port investments in Sudan, to argue that they form part of a project of empire-making, which relies on racialized processes of capital accumulation to reproduce itself. Through an analysis of the social and geopolitical dynamics that shape these investments, it seeks to contribute towards conceptualizations of empire-making as processes aimed at controlling transnational networks and circuits of production and distribution, as opposed to or in addition to territory. How might we understand the significance of an ailing Emirati-owned agricultural project in Sudan’s Gezira region, which has long been a site of imperial extraction and accumulation from the vantage point of a new US$6 billion Emirati-financed port project along Sudan’s Red Sea coast, which constitutes another imperial node of extraction? What else might we learn as Michel Rolph Trouillot (1988), argues by shifting not only the vantage point, but also the scales of our ethnographic analysis across multiple temporalities and spaces: the port, the body, the home to name a few? How might such a multi-scalar analysis enable us to trace the spatialized geography of Emirati power and hegemony in and beyond Sudan, while also paying attention to the processes and engagements that continuously destabilize it?