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| | Al-Ahram Weekly | Features | Before the flood |
 | | For its part the Sony Gallery is showcasing fl and white photographs taken in the early 1960s by Abdel-Fattah Eid as part of a project to document Nubian culture before the valley was submerged by Lake Nasser. |
 | | In the late 1950s a sense of urgency swept across a dispersed but deeply concerned community of historians, archeologists, architects, anthropologists, painters, and documentary film makers with the realisation, in the words of Rex Keating, that "this evocative land of Nubia" which they knew and loved, was under sentence of imminent death by drowning. |
 | | The anthropologists tell us that even before the flooding by the High Dam, Nubia had become a somewhat idealised homeland for most of its men, forced by economic circumstance to migrate north to Cairo and other Egyptian and Arab urban centres for employment, returning briefly during holidays and finally at the time of retirement. |
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