She explained that through time, Nubians tended to Arabise the words, and replace most of them, “which ended up with having sentences that are half Nubian and half Arabic. While a young big-city woman ...
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 ...
Inspired by their own journey of personal discovery, a group of Nubian writers and artists are creating resources to help children learn their ancient written and spoken language Following a ...
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 ...
In Egypt, an ethnolinguistic group of people, who are believed to originate from one of the earliest cradles of civilization, are fighting to preserve their ancestral legacy. An i24NEWS report ...
TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
Alsarah is an artist and a participant in the sonic history of music. Born in Khartoum, Sudan, of Nubian descent, she sings of migration, love, and nationhood in both Arabic and Nubian languages, with ...
This article is part of a series examining free expression and information access in civic spaces across six language communities in the MENA region. Servants, doormen, wardrobe assistants, and ...
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