This piece received an honorable mention in the nonfiction category of the 2o24 Wallace Prize. Every inch of a typical Nubian home along the Nile River in Aswan, Egypt is covered in bright colors. In ...

Selfie with crocodiles! An Egyptian Nubian village famous for its homegrown crocodiles attracts worldwide tourists. ASWAN, Egypt, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- In one of the Nubian homes at Gharb Soheil village ...

A Nubian activist lies dead, after being jailed for celebrating his own culture. In the wake of the tragic loss, Mohammed Elnaiem looks back at 12 years of resistance in Egypt News of the death of ...

Nubian vaults–built from just mud, water, and stones–were a feature of ancient Egypt, but could they be a solution to climate change and the housing crisis in Central Africa. In Sahelian Africa, a ...

“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 ...

The Sun Temple at Abu Simbel is a popular tourist attraction which has featured in well-known films like Death on the Nile and The Mummy Returns but had it been left where Ramses II built it 33 ...

This month, Aswan’s famous High Dam celebrated its golden anniversary, marking fifty years since its construction and the resultant migration of the Nubian peoples that had previously lived in the ...

Fatma Addar grew up in a Nubian family, connected to her ethnic minority's rich history through its tales of a bygone life on the Nile, though regaled less and less in their original language. She ...

Visitors walk towards the entrance of the Nubia Museum in Aswan, Egypt, on Feb. 10, 2020. The Nubia Museum in Upper Egypt's charming city of Aswan by the Nile River is considered by architects and ...

WILLIAMSTOWN >> The letter has a sibilant sound, and in the drawing filling the wall it repeats like rippling water or depressions in the sand. When women walk down the street in Cairo, men make that ...

A crocodile is seen in Aswan, Egypt, on Feb. 12, 2020. In Nubian village of Aswan, tourists can take selfies with real big crocodiles. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa) ASWAN, Egypt, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- In one of ...

Visitors walk towards the entrance of the Nubia Museum in Aswan, Egypt, on Feb. 10, 2020. The Nubia Museum in Upper Egypt's charming city of Aswan by the Nile River is considered by architects and ...