Hope for the Egyptian Nubians damned by the dam | Khaled Diab

Now, half a century after the inundation, Egyptian Nubians are finally being offered the prospect of decent compensation for the loss of their homeland in the 1960s. Following years of concerted campaigning by Nubian campaigners, and their active role in the revolution, Fayza Abul Naga, the minister for planning and international co-operation, announced that Nubians would soon be compensated with

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The country's third president Anwar Sadat, although he grew up in the north of Egypt, was the son of Nubian parents, while the country's current de facto leader, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, is also of Nubian origin.