“My grandparents spoke Nubian, my father spoke a little Nubian and I don’t speak it at all,” says Fatma Emam Sakory, a freelance Nubian researcher and activist. Sakory’s grandparents moved to Cairo ...

When Ramey Dawoud looks back on his childhood days in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, he recalls hearing the adults around him speak in their native language: Nubian. Yet with him they’d ...

A guesthouse on Elephantine Island holds treasures of Nubian culture (Credit: Mai Farouk) Nubian filmmaker Hafsa Amberkab is reclaiming the power of narrative by connecting younger generations to ...

It was a relatively chilly evening in the Egyptian capital Cairo as the Aragide Nubian troupe took to the stage. But the cold outside was quickly forgotten. 'Aragide is a way of life rather than just ...