High Dam
Cruising Lake Nasser: When Egypt’s past and present collide
Life & Style
January 20, 2011
Cruising Lake Nasser: When Egypt’s past and present collide
Abu Simbel--In the 1960s, rising water from a new dam threatened to submerge the temples and monuments of Nubia, the…
Sunday’s papers: Electricity cut and corruption denied
Egypt
August 1, 2010
Sunday’s papers: Electricity cut and corruption denied
Government corruption has received intensive coverage over the past two days after the ruling National Democratic Party’s pledge to “seriously…
Longing for Nubia
Egypt
March 1, 2010
Longing for Nubia
Old Nubia, paradise lost
Archaeology
February 5, 2010
Old Nubia, paradise lost
This month, Aswan's famous High Dam celebrated its golden anniversary, marking fifty years since its construction and the resultant migration…
Rains disrupt High Dam power station
Egypt
January 21, 2010
Rains disrupt High Dam power station
An official report presented to Electricity Minister Hassan Younis revealed that heavy rains in the southern city of Aswan in…
Keeping water safe at its source
Environment
January 19, 2010
Keeping water safe at its source
Herodotus famously wrote 2500 years ago that "Egypt is the gift of the Nile." But 50 years after the construction…
An official celebration
Egypt
January 18, 2010
An official celebration
Aswan-This week, the Upper Egyptian city of Aswan celebrated both its national day and the 50-year anniversary of the beginning…
Jubilee of an eternal and high dam
Egypt
January 18, 2010
Jubilee of an eternal and high dam
Aswan-- On 15 January 1971, Egypt celebrated the completion of the High Dam, whose funding was the center of a…
Memories of a dam, a high dam…
Archaeology
January 10, 2010
Memories of a dam, a high dam…
The story of the High Dam was a tale of a nation, hikayit sha‘b, as Abdel Halim Hafiz chanted in…