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 ...

“My grandparents spoke Nubian, my father spoke a little Nubian and I don’t speak it at all,” says Fatma Emam Sakory, a freelance Nubian researcher and activist. Sakory’s grandparents moved to Cairo ...

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 ...

My parents are Nubian. They were both born in Cairo after their families were forcefully displaced during the second reconstruction phase of the Aswan low dam in 1932. I grew up in a family building ...

It was a relatively chilly evening in the Egyptian capital Cairo as the Aragide Nubian troupe took to the stage. But the cold outside was quickly forgotten. 'Aragide is a way of life rather than just ...

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 ...

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(MENAFN- Daily News Egypt) Aiming to revive the Nubian language and promote its distinguished heritage and culture, Momen Taloush, a software programmer, released the first Nubian application, Nubi, ...

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 ...