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 ...

ABU SIMBEL, Egypt — The lush farmland where Bakri Gaffar played as a boy, scaling palm trees and fishing the Nile, now lies deep underwater. Gaffar, 75, remembers every contour of his village, which ...

This undated photograph shows the parents of Haggag Oddoul before they were forced to leave their homeland, in Egypt. Oddoul, at 74, has spent a lifetime chronicling the miseries of the Nubians' ...

NASR AL-NUBA, Egypt (Reuters) - For half a century, Egypt's Nubians have patiently lobbied the government in Cairo for a return to their homelands on the banks of the upper Nile, desperate to reclaim ...

In this May 7, 2018, photo, 65-year old Mohammed Haroun sits in front of his home in Wadi Karkar, a new complex under construction in the desert west of Lake Nasser, Aswan, Egypt. Evicted from their ...

ASWAN, Egypt — Siham Othman was born decades after her grandparents were forced to evacuate from their homes on the banks of the Nile River along with tens of thousands of their fellow Nubians. But ...

CAIRO – Egypt's Aswan Court has ordered the continued detention of 24 Nubians for participating in an unauthorized protest three days earlier until Sept 13 when he is set to review the case. Wednesday ...

ASWAN, Egypt (AP) — The world of their parents and grandparents was turned upside down more than 50 years ago when they were evacuated from villages along the Nile River to make way for the High Dam.

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