Nubians
Correcting the Images of Nubians
Daily News Egypt published a story last week about a new organization that is trying to correct the stereotypes that many people have about the Nubians, people known for their traditional dances, colorful houses along the Nile, and beautiful smiles. The media often focus on such images, which cover up realities that are not as […]
Nubians Protest More Dams on the Nile
The Nubians along the Nile in northern Sudan, who were mostly spared from flooding by Lake Nasser in the 1960s, are now facing the threat of destruction by dams in their own valleys.
Nubians Press for Right of Return
Ever since the completion of the Aswan High Dam in 1964, successive Egyptian governments have ignored promises made to the Nubians that they would be allowed to return to farming villages along the Nile. For 51 years, the Nubian people have cherished the promise—the hope—of returning to the peaceful ways of their rural villages. Last […]
Nubian Singing in Sudan
Researcher Samir Bukab maintains that Nubian music has 12 rhythms, which inspire different meanings for different listeners, though none are symbolic of the warfare that is common among other Sudanese societies. His comments appear as part of an article on the music of the Nubian people of northern Sudan and its importance in their society. […]
Nubians Insulted by Egyptian Racism
The racism that Nubians in Egypt sometimes experience from the Arab majority in their country was dramatized last week in a widely publicized incident involving a popular soccer (football) star. The incident exemplifies the bigotry that the Nubian writer Idris Ali wrote about in a major novel, which was the subject of a review here […]
Problems of the Nubian Diaspora [journal article review]
The Nubians of Egypt continue to press for a return to their ancient homeland along the Nile as a solution to their yearnings for stability, prosperity, and peaceful village relations. Most of them were forced to leave their communities in southern Egypt and northern Sudan in 1964 when the Aswan Dam was completed. The Egyptian […]
Promises to Nubians in Wadi Qurqur
The Egyptian Ministry of Housing is building a resettlement community near the city of Aswan for the Nubian people but it is having a hard time attracting settlers. According to a news report published last week in the Daily News Egypt, the project to build housing in the Wadi Qurqur, referred to in the article […]
Changes in Nubian Wedding Ceremonies
An article published last week argues that the wedding customs of the Nubians living in New Halfa, a resettlement community in Eastern Sudan, are unchanging. The author, Abdalla Hassan Al-Haj, writing an essay for the magazine SudaNow published in Khartoum, which was reprinted in AllAfrica.com, asserts that the Sudanese Nubians are desperately trying to prevent […]
Nubian Resettlements May Move Forward
A major demand by Egypt’s Nubian community—to have the option of resettling into their historic homelands along the Nile—moved a step closer to reality last week. The government announced on Wednesday the beginning of a project to form new communities for Nubians around Lake Nasser, the vast impoundment formed in the 1960s by the Aswan […]
Nubians Waiting for Fair Treatment
Last month, the Nubian people were not discussed during the celebrations in Egypt marking the 50th anniversary of the construction of the High Dam at Aswan, even though the reservoir destroyed much of Old Nubia. Haggag Oddoul, a prominent Egyptian Nubian writer who lives in Alexandria, told a reporter from the Web-based news source Al-Monitor […]
