A Blog by the Editor of The Middle East Journal

Putting Middle Eastern Events in Cultural and Historical Context

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Remembering the Lost Nubia

As part of the 50th Anniversary of the Aswan High Dam the Egyptian media has been writing a lot about the period. Here's an interesting interview in Al-Masry Al-Youm's English pages with a Nubian displaced by the High Dam, remembering the lost villages of Nubia and showing distinctly mixed views of Nasser.

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