This presentation was updated several times according to the developments in Nubia

1. Nubia Project
Destruction of
Nubia
By Damming and Cultural
Cleansing
Nuraddin Abdulmannan
Nuraddin Abdulmannan
Maryland July 2009
Maryland July 2009

2. Map of Nubia
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3. Nubia in the Past
• Nubia’s name is derived from the
Hieroglyphic word “Nub” for
"Gold". Nubia, the land of gold is
the mother of the most ancient
civilization on the face of the
Earth.
• At the height of its political
power Nubian Pharaohs ruled
from south Khartoum, capital of
Sudan to Egypt. Nubia was
known by Kush, Napata, and
Merowe. Nubia was ruled by
kings and queens AKA as
(Kandakas) who built more than
20 pyramids in Nubia.
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4. • Nubians are mentioned in
the old Testament and its
celebrity Pharaoh Taharqa
led an army from Nubia in
year 701 BC to rescue the
Jewish Kingdom in Jerusalem
from Assyrian annihilation.
• Greeks, Romans and Arab
historians wrote about the
greatness of the Nubian
people and their civilization.
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5. Nubia at Present
• Nubia is located in today's
northern Sudan and southern
Egypt.
• Isolated, marginalized,
impoverished and depopulated.
Millions migrated to Khartoum
and Arabian Gulf.
• Considered by US Congress as a
marginalized area in Darfur
Accountability Act.
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6. Nubia (Nub)
the Land of Gold
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7. Shield ring _Queen Amanishekito
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8. Queen Malakaye
From Aspelta
grave
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9. Damming of Nubia
• The Aswan dam and the High dam of Egypt
caused relocation of Nubians 4 times from
their lands. The total Egyptian Nubian
population and a sizable Sudanese Nubians
were relocated to Arabized lands.
• Nubians suffering from dams started in 1902
when Egypt built the Aswan Dam.
• The apex of their sufferings was in 1964
when Egypt built the High Dam, the largest
man made dam in the world. The total
Egyptian Nubian population were relocated
and 50,000 Sudanese Nubians were
relocated in Eastern Sudan.
• After more than 40 years Nubians in
Northern Sudan and in Eastern Sudan are
suffering.
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10. • The Nubian region from Wadi Halfa
to Dongola has no electricity or
paved asphalt roads. The whole area
is marginalized, impoverished and
neglected by the government.
• Meroe dam has been completed in a
record time of 2 years.
• Kajbar, Dal and Elsheraik dams are
underway.
• These dams will wipe out Nubia from
the map and destroy an international
heritage.
• UN Human Rights Rep was denied
visiting Nubia twice.
• BBC team and Christian Science
Monitor correspondents were
deported from Nubia.
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11. • Nubians resisted building Kajbar
dam and on June 13, 2007 the
security forces opened fire on a
peaceful demonstrations killing 4
and injuring many near Kajbar dam
site.
• Manaseer tribes resisted Meroe
dam and many of them were killed
or injured and the government
relocated them by force in a desert
area far from the Nile river.
• LA Times and National Geographic
covered recent developments in
Nubia.
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12. Nubians & Asbestos
Related Cancers
• 50,000 Nubians who were
relocated in 1965 to Eastern
Sudan and housed in Asbestos
roofed houses are threatened
by asbestos related cancers.
Their numbers have increased
while the agricultural scheme
is collapsing and a new
Nubian exodus started to old
Nubia and peripheries of
Khartoum.
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13. Dams map
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14. Sudan map before NIF coup in
1989
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15. The Nile River State was taken from the Northern State
to find an access for the Arabs of Sudan to Egypt and
to disconnect Nubia from Beja
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16. Hamdi Triangle and
Nile River State
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17. Nubian Language and
Arabization of Nubia
• Nubians used the Egyptian
hieroglyph language before and
during the Middle Kingdom era in
Egypt. With the emergence of
powerful Nubian kingdoms, the
Meroetic language, a new and more
sophisticated language written in
cursive alphabets was introduced.
The Meroetic language was used
during the Napatan & Kushite
Meroetic era. Unfortunately the
Meroetic language is still un
-deciphered.
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18. • Abandoned after the
destruction of the last Nubian
Christian Kingdom of Aludia
(Alwa) with its seat at Soba
south of Khartoum in 1505 AD
• Rewritten in 1997 by Egyptian
archaeologist Mukhtar Khalil
Kabbara who died the same
day he concluded transcript
of his book “ Nobiin ga Sikkir
Faiwa”.
• Nubian language is prohibited
in the school curriculums.
• Nubian language was used by
Egypt as a military code
language in its 1973 war
against Israel.
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19. The Old Nubian
Language
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20. •The Nubian language (Nobiin) remained a
written language in Greeco-Coptic
alphabets for centuries. The Nobiin was
usually translations of Christian writings
from original Greek language to an adapted
Nubian language in Greco-Coptic
alphabets. After introduction of Islam to
Egypt and Sudan, and the interruption of
the cultural and religious ties between the
Nubian Christian kingdoms and the Roman
church, the Nubians adopted Islam, and
gradually they abandoned writing their
language and adopted instead the Arabic
language for their official writings.
•Nubian language is rewritten now and we
need linguists and academicians to help in
reserving scholarships in universities for
the advancement of the Nubian language,
its grammar, dictionary, encyclopedia and
literature etc. We encourage universities
and institutions to help in teaching Nubian
language..
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21. Egyptian
Conspiracy
Against
Nubia
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22. •All invasions to Sudan
through out its history came
from Egypt.
•Egypt signed the Nile
Waters agreement (NWA) in
1959 during the military rule
of General Abboud and
occupied Halaib and signed
the Four Freedoms
Agreement during the NCP
rule.
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23. The Four Freedoms Agreement
(Egypt’s plan to wipe out Nubia)
On Tuesday, June 15, 2004 the
Sudanese National Assembly
approved the four freedoms
agreement with Egypt (freedom
to move, reside, work, and own).
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This agreement targets the
Nubian and allows millions of
Egyptian farmers to move freely,
reside, work and own land in
Nubia, change demographic
structure and dominate the area,
become majority and annex
Sudan in future.
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24. Dams of Merowe, Mugrat, Sheraik
and Sabaloka are going to inflict
immeasurable damage to the Nubian
heritage. These dams are storage for
Egypt’s water and to act as filters to
the High Dam that suffers from
suffocation due to huge deposits of
clay and silt. These dams will
submerge Nubian villages/towns,
inundate the most rich archeological
sites in the world and force the
Nubians out of their land.
Egypt is using Nubian land as a free
storage for over 4 decades.
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25. Who benefits from
destruction of Nubia?
• The pro Arabs and Muslim
Fundamentalist Governments of
Sudan and Egypt are the main
beneficiaries of building dams and
destroying Nubia, its monuments,
relocate and displace Nubians
and destroy their culture and
heritage.
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26. Alsha’ab Newspaper Friday December 10, 1992
Egyptian newspaper warns from an American
conspiracy to dismantle Egypt and Sudan and
a campaign from Jews and Black Americans to
form a Nubian state south of Egypt and north of
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27. Nubia Festival and Road to a Black Kingdom from
Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia
Nubia Festival is an American Zionist conspiracy to
separate Nubia and target Egyptian identity –
Alsha’ab July 23, 1991
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28. Defufa, Kerma, the oldest town
in history
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29. Statues of Black Pharaohs,
discovered recently in Kerma
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30. What do Nubians Need?
• To live in their ancestral lands and
preserve their culture, and heritage.
• Protection from dams and cultural
cleansing and forcible relocation and
marginalization.
• Help from US administration,
European Community and UN to stop
damming Nubia and destruction of
Nubian monuments.
• International help to develop Nubia
and invest in its huge resources and
potentials for tourism, minerals,
agriculture and the Nubian aquifer
which contains one of the largest
underground water reservoirs in
Africa.
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31. What you can do to protect Nubia
from destruction
• Call upon US Congress to act
urgently and encourage the
administration to exert
pressures on Sudan government
to stop building dams in Nubia.
• Ask US Congress to slash a
portion of USAID to Egypt and
to compensate for using Nubia
land as a free storage for
Egypt’s waters over 40 years.
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32. • Make pressures on China and
Arab financiers to stop
financing and building these
destructive dams to turn the
Nile River to an Arab river and
build a new Andalucía on the
Nile valley.
• To save thousands of Nubians
living in Asbestos houses in
Eastern Sudan for over 40
years. Cancers began to spread
among Nubians.
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33. • Tell your friends, congregation, community
centers and institutions to act and spread
the word to protect the Nubian people,
their culture and heritage from destruction.
• Join the Nubian campaigns to preserve the
Nubian monuments and Call upon the
UNESCO and the international community
to take its responsibility to rescue this
international heritage by declaring Nubia
as a historically protected land and send
fact finding missions and media
representatives to investigate and conduct
studies.
• Tell the international museums hosting
Nubian artifacts to adopt museums in
Nubia. This will help attract international
tourisms into Nubia.
• Invest in Nubia, the land of GOLD and first
Queens of the world.
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34. • Help stop Arabization of Nubia. Dams
will bring millions of Egyptian farmers
and billions of dollars from Arab
investors who will push Nubians to the
desert and to squatters of Khartoum
and other cities.
• Contact the media to cover the Nubian
issues, folklore and culture.
• Send fact finding missions from US
Congress and Media to see reality on
the ground.
• UN Human Rights Representative was
denied visiting Nubia.
• BBC team and Christian Science
Monitor correspondent were deported
from Nubia.
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35. • Get involved and be proactive to
encourage others to participate
in Nubian events and protests
against dams and cultural
cleansing and attend their
forums and fundraising events.
• Pledge a donation to support the
Nubian cause and the advocacy
activities and share your ideas
about effective measures to
protect Nubian people, their
culture and heritage from
destruction.
• Break the isolation on Nubia by
talking about Nubia.
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