Nubians
Raging Violence, Nubians Versus Arabs
Over a week ago, conflicts between rival Arab and Nubian clans in Aswan, in southern Egypt, escalated into street violence that claimed 26 dead and over 50 injured. Accounts in the Egyptian and international media differ as to who or what caused the violence. The story, as told by the Egyptian government on Saturday the […]
Nubians Recognized in Egyptian Constitution
National Geographic covered a lot of familiar ground in its recent news report on the Nubians of Egypt, but it also included some interesting information about Nubian culture and current affairs. The journalist writing for the Geographic, Peter Schwartzstein, begins his story by recounting his meeting with Fatma Emam Sakory. She arrived late. When she […]
Nubian Recognition in New Egyptian Constitution
The new Egyptian constitution, completed at the beginning of December, included a few political gains for the Nubians, but at least one young intellectual activist is not entirely satisfied. Fatma Emam Sakory, a freelance researcher and translator, was a member of the consultative office of Haggag Oddoul, the senior Nubian writer who represented the Nubians […]
Oddoul Serves on an Important Egyptian Committee
A committee writing a new constitution for Egypt has banned forced evacuations, like the one 50 years ago that destroyed most of Old Nubia. According to a news report last week, Hoda Al-Sadda, chair of the Rights and Liberties Subcommittee, indicated that the measure is aimed at protecting minority groups—not only the Nubians from southern […]
Nubians Question Egyptian Developments [magazine article review]
“Today, we can all feel the energy and buzz of Nubian youth. As a community, we Nubians have accomplished some of our goals, but the best is yet to come,” Haggag Oddoul said in an interview published on Friday. The comments by the famed Nubian Egyptian writer were included as part of a 5,000 word […]
Pictures of Nubians
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting published an interesting report last week by multimedia journalist Lauren E. Bohn on the Nubians of Egypt and their continuing claims to lands along the Nile. The text of her article offers little that is new: the losses the Nubians suffered since the Aswan High Dam was closed in […]
Nubians Have Conflicts
A brief incident of violence broke out among the normally peaceful Nubians at the end of last week, but the major injury was to the tourist trade image of southern Egypt. Since the incident affected over 600 tourists, it generated some news coverage. Details are a bit sketchy from the different accounts, but apparently a […]
Nubian Delegates Meet President Morsi
On Monday last week, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi received a delegation of Nubians from southern Egypt who presented a variety of demands that, they said, had been ignored by former President Hosni Mubarak. Further, they expressed their disappointment that there have been no changes in their situation since Mubarak’s regime fell over two years ago. […]
Egyptian Government Grants Land to Nubians
In response to several years of protests and demonstrations by the Nubians, the Egyptian government finally announced last Friday that it will grant them 5,320 acres of land around the shores of Lake Nasser. Many Nubian villages, in both southern Egypt and northern Sudan, were flooded when the High Dam at Aswan was built in […]
The Nubians and the Egyptian Referendum
The referendum process in Egypt over the country’s new constitution has been as difficult for the Nubians as for the other minority groups that have protested the Muslim Brotherhood steamroller. Voting across the country was divided into two phases, with Cairo, Alexandria, and many of the other cities going to the polls last Saturday, and […]
