Haggag Oddoul
Nubians Appoint Oddoul to Represent Them
Leaders of the Nubian community, both from Egypt and abroad, met in Aswan last week to air their grievances about their treatment by the Egyptian government and to seek some solutions. They decried the destruction of Old Nubia by a dam built across the Nile at Aswan in 1902, a higher one in 1934, and […]
Nubian Reactions to the Revolution
The fame of Alexandria, Egypt’s second largest city, with over 4 million inhabitants, is based in part on its incredible history, its wonderful modern library, and its ancient tradition of multiculturalism. A cosmopolitan cultural center right from its founding in 331 BC by Alexander the Great, the city became home to sizable populations of Jews, […]
Nubian Connections to the Nile Remembered
Haggag Ouddul, the famous Nubian writer, published an article last week that describes some traditional customs connecting his people to the Nile River. He provides an evocative opening for his essay in Al-Ahram, a prominent Egyptian weekly magazine: “ Nubia is as soft as the Nile’s mud, dark as the Nile’s water and powerful as […]
Novela by Oddoul Parodies Nubian Situation
A 1999 novela by Haggag Oddoul about Nubia, My Uncle Is on Labor, has just been translated into English, according to a review published in Bloomberg.com last Thursday. Oddoul’s Nights of Musk, translated into English in 2005, has become a well-known literary testament to the spirit of Old Nubia, and this newly translated work, like […]
Empty Promises to the Nubians
A conference titled “ Nubia between Resettlement and Development,” held in Cairo in April, revealed only a portion of the continuing resentment among the Nubians. An article in the Jordanian paper Al-Dustour, which prompted a story in this website at the beginning of May, was evidently only part of the media frenzy that accompanied the […]
Nubians Dance by the Nile, and Dissipate Conflicts [short story review]
Blame Muhammad Wardi: the magic of his songs and the heat of the dancing inflame the passions of the young and old. A recent short story by Haggag Hassan Oddoul explores the passions of the dance in old Nubia and is now available full text, for free, on the Web. The setting for the story […]
Old Nubia Slips Beneath the Waves [book review]
The lake is a menace that haunts human lives, the dam that formed it the destroyer of villages, people, and all the goodness of Old Nubia. The River People, in a new collection of short stories about the Nubians, ultimately succeeded in summoning Asha Ashry into the drowned river. She committed suicide because the young […]
