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 ...

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

TO OUTSIDE observers a decree issued by Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi in November 2014 may have seemed benign. With the stroke of his pen, Egypt’s president designated a stretch of mostly uninhabited land in ...

FROM a boat on the reservoir between Egypt’s high and low dams in Aswan, a local Nubian man called Haj Omar points to where the ancient temple of Philae used to be. After the low dam was completed in ...

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