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… Continue reading…
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… Continue reading…
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… Continue reading…
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… Continue reading…
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… Continue reading…
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…. Continue reading…
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… Continue reading…
