Will Nubian demands for return become calls for secession? - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Enas Hamed

Enas Hamed

Nov 25, 2014

A Nubian boy rides a camel at the Nile river bank in Aswan, some 1200 km (746 miles) south of Cairo, March 25, 2007. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic (EGYPT) - RTR1NWNI — A Nubian boy rides a camel at the Nile River bank in Aswan, March 25, 2007. — REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

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A man plays music on a traditional musical instrument in the Nubian village of Adindan near Aswan, south of Egypt, September 30, 2015. 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 Nile, desperate to reclaim territory their ancestors first cultivated 3,000 years ago. Yet all their efforts to gain political influence have brought next to nothing. In Egypt's incoming parliament, which will be finalised after a second rou

Egypt brings long-awaited compensation to thousands of Nubians

Muhammad Ghamrawy

Muhammad Ghamrawy

Nubians offered compensation for lost land

Ahmad al-Bordeny

Ahmad al-Bordeny

Nubian man prays on rocks below the Philae temple complex near the southern Egyptian city of Aswan November 7, 2009. The earliest remains of the temple date from the reign of Nectanebo I in the third century BC and are now one of Egypt's legendary tourist attractions. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic (EGYPT SOCIETY) - RTXQGP4

Egypt’s Nubians demand rights on Aswan High Dam anniversary

Ayah Aman

In Cairo, reporting on politics and culture

Members of a Nubian folk group perform a prayer December 10 in front of the ancient temple of Queen Hatshepsut in Luxor. In a bid to clean up all signs of the grisley killing of 58 foreign tourists by Moslem militants last month, Egypt held an obituary ceremony at Luxors Hatshepsut temple, the site of the massacre.

EGYPT TOURIST MEMORIAL - RTR9IRM

Egypt's Nubians continue to demand right of return

Khalid Hassan