Nights of Musk

Nights of Musk
Author: Haggag Hassan Oddoul
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2009
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9789774162169

These stories speak of the demise of traditional Nubian life and culture. While the temples of Abu Simbel were relocated before dam-building, the drowning of the ancient heartland of the Nubian people along the banks of the Nile went largely unnoticed. Haggag Oddoul documents the personal tragedy of social transformation.

Stories from Old Nubia

Stories from Old Nubia
Author: Ḥajjāj Ḥasan Uddūl
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2005
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9789774248948

These stories speak of the demise of traditional Nubian life and culture. While the temples of Abu Simbel were relocated before dam-building, the drowning of the ancient heartland of the Nubian people along the banks of the Nile went largely unnoticed. Haggag Oddoul documents the personal tragedy of social transformation.

Morning in Serra Mattu

Morning in Serra Mattu
Author: Arif Gamal
Publisher: McSweeney's
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1940450659

A mosaic of interrelated stories exploding with personality, myth, and geohistorical weight, Morning in Serra Mattu is a profound, joyful meditation on life in modern Sudan. Arif Gamal seamlessly blends large-scale political realities with the local and the traditional: “old villages/whose ancient way is so composed/each single blade of grass is known/and in its place.” Epic in scope, spellbinding in its intimacy, generosity, and wisdom, Morning in Serra Mattu is the book we didn’t know we needed. how thrilling it was in the earliest morning to race barefoot down the sandy slopes and dunes with all the bellowing goats and dogs and sheep and other animals for their first morning drink and to swim in the fresh waters of the flowing river while the thousand upon thousand of high unhindered Nubian stars began to fall away before a tinge of milky line along the hills until light grew from nearly nothing to an immensity —from “Return to Serra Mattu”

Aswan High Dam Resettlement of Egyptian Nubians

Aswan High Dam Resettlement of Egyptian Nubians
Author: Thayer Scudder
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-08-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9789811019340

This book highlights the long-term resettlement process of the Egyptian Nubian people along the Aswan High Dam. Assessing the resettlement of 48,000 Egyptian Nubians in connection with the High Dam is especially important for three main reasons: firstly, this resettlement process is one of the rare cases in which research begun before the dam was built has continued for over forty years. Secondly, the resettlement of the Egyptian Nubian people is one of the few cases in which the living standards of the large majority improved because of the initial political will of the government, combined with Nubian initiatives. Thirdly, given the complexity of the resettlement process, weaknesses in government planning, implementation, and in the weakening of government political provide valuable lessons for future dam-induced resettlement efforts.

Waiting for Kush

Waiting for Kush
Author: Ahmed Eltigani Sidahmed
Publisher:
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2017
Genre:
ISBN: 9789770939338

Nubian Stories

Nubian Stories
Author: Nabra Nelson
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-01-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9781034284741

Nuba, a Nubian woman who was forcibly relocated from her village in the south of Egypt due to its intentional flooding for the construction of the Aswan High Dam, tells the story of her people through her own incredible biography as well as through the ancient Nubian folkloric tales she grew up with. Based on a true story, NUBIAN STORIES is a play about loss and legacy set simultaneously in the past and present. It transports us to the village for a brief moment and makes us realize how far we are from a not-so-distant history that is being erased.

Magic Tales and Fairy Tale Magic

Magic Tales and Fairy Tale Magic
Author: R. Bottigheimer
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1137380888

This book examines magic's generally maleficent effect on humans from ancient Egypt through the Middle Ages, including tales from classical mythology, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim cultures. It shows that certain magical motifs lived on from age to age, but that it took until the Italian Renaissance for magic tales to become fairy tales.

World Mythology

World Mythology
Author: Roy G. Willis
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 326
Release: 1993
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780805027013

The great myths of the world create meaning out of the fundamental events of human existence: birth, death, conflict, loss, reconciliation, the cycle of the seasons. They speak to us of life itself in voices still intelligible, yet compellingly strange and distant. World Mythology offers readers an authoritative and wide-ranging guide to these enduring mythological traditions, combining the pure narrative of the myths themselves with the background necessary for more complete understanding. Here, noted mythology expert Roy Willis, brings together a team of nineteen leading scholars navigate a clear path through the complexities of myth as they distill the essence of each regional tradition and focus on the most significant figures and the most enthralling stories. All aspects of the world's key mythologies are covered, from tales of warring deities and demons to stories of revenge and metamorphosis; from accounts of lustful gods and star-crossed human lovers to journeys in the underworld. All are told at length and are accompanied by illuminating and readable introductory text. Also included are summaries of important theories about the origins and meaning of myth, and an examination of themes that recur across a range of civilizations. Beautifully illustrated with more than 500 color photographs, works of art, charts, and maps, World Mythology offers readers the most accessible guide yet to the heritage of the world's imagination.

Nubian Ceremonial Life

Nubian Ceremonial Life
Author: John G. Kennedy
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789774249556

Reveals and discusses some of the important and distinctive aspects of Nubian culture. This study contains discussions on the psychology of death ceremonies, the nature of 'taboo,' and the importance of trance curing ceremonies.