Away from the Nile, a Nubian die like a fish out of water, "says Hosam Eldin Mostafa, 38, while five crocodiles lather for tourists has crammed into a sink. At a bend in the river, on the outskirts of Aswan, with its dirt streets, houses of sun-dried brick and ocher painted blue and souvenir shops, the Nubian village Sehiel Garbi air may have a theme park but it is heaven compared to the shacks piled next to the railroad tracks where they ended up living many Nubians.
In this Big Bang-individual and collective hopes, rational and irrational-up in Egypt after the fall of Mubarak, the Nubians are also open new horizons for their cause. Exiles in their own country, dream of returning to the ancestral beloved land, submerged beneath Lake Nasser from the High Dam construction.
"I sacrificed everything for Egypt. Imagine our dismay when, fifty years later, our beloved country is no reward, "says Abdu Salim Nubian activist, an agronomist for 61 years. The question was Nubian back, in fact, to 1902, when the British built the first Aswan dam and forced the first towns to move higher.
Successive enlargements in 1912 and 1933, more people were flooded. The disaster came with the High Dam in 1964, he left under water to 43 villages and displaced 60,000 Nubians. They left behind the dates, fruit and fish from the land of gold (etymology of Nubia, was the gold that Ramses II was to marry the Nefertari Nubian) and were relocated to a strip of thirty towns hastily built , in barren and unfit for the building between Aswan and Luxor, away from river.
The Nubians, who maintain close links with the Nile, their source of life, economic and spiritual sense, "never felt good there," says Selim. So by 1977 this dark-skinned people and language and identity new lands claimed by the lake to President Sadat. His murder and Mubarak came to power he shelved the project.
Fearful of encouraging separatism if I gave them a land, Mubarak has always refused. The diaspora, aggravated by migration north in search of work, has been to take its toll: loss of language, traditions. But the straw that broke the camel came in 2008, with the announcement of an ambitious development plan for tourism and agriculture to repopulate the lake Nasser, Egypt's population is concentrated in 3% of the territory, aimed at foreign investors local, but ignoring the Nubians.
"For the first time," said Selim, many began to believe something that others had long been saying: that the dispersion of the Nubian is intended to annihilate us. " The fall of Mubarak and the prospect of a new Egypt have encouraged the dreams of Nubia on the banks of Lake Nasser. "We are patient, but when a new government, talk," says Selim.
This is our land. It need not be just for us, but we should be the first to return ".*" 50 years ago were rescued one by one the rocks of Abu Simbel ... we ask now is to save the Nubian people. " 
In this Big Bang-individual and collective hopes, rational and irrational-up in Egypt after the fall of Mubarak, the Nubians are also open new horizons for their cause. Exiles in their own country, dream of returning to the ancestral beloved land, submerged beneath Lake Nasser from the High Dam construction.
"I sacrificed everything for Egypt. Imagine our dismay when, fifty years later, our beloved country is no reward, "says Abdu Salim Nubian activist, an agronomist for 61 years. The question was Nubian back, in fact, to 1902, when the British built the first Aswan dam and forced the first towns to move higher.
Successive enlargements in 1912 and 1933, more people were flooded. The disaster came with the High Dam in 1964, he left under water to 43 villages and displaced 60,000 Nubians. They left behind the dates, fruit and fish from the land of gold (etymology of Nubia, was the gold that Ramses II was to marry the Nefertari Nubian) and were relocated to a strip of thirty towns hastily built , in barren and unfit for the building between Aswan and Luxor, away from river.
The Nubians, who maintain close links with the Nile, their source of life, economic and spiritual sense, "never felt good there," says Selim. So by 1977 this dark-skinned people and language and identity new lands claimed by the lake to President Sadat. His murder and Mubarak came to power he shelved the project.
Fearful of encouraging separatism if I gave them a land, Mubarak has always refused. The diaspora, aggravated by migration north in search of work, has been to take its toll: loss of language, traditions. But the straw that broke the camel came in 2008, with the announcement of an ambitious development plan for tourism and agriculture to repopulate the lake Nasser, Egypt's population is concentrated in 3% of the territory, aimed at foreign investors local, but ignoring the Nubians.
"For the first time," said Selim, many began to believe something that others had long been saying: that the dispersion of the Nubian is intended to annihilate us. " The fall of Mubarak and the prospect of a new Egypt have encouraged the dreams of Nubia on the banks of Lake Nasser. "We are patient, but when a new government, talk," says Selim.
This is our land. It need not be just for us, but we should be the first to return ".*" 50 years ago were rescued one by one the rocks of Abu Simbel ... we ask now is to save the Nubian people. "
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