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Our project was launched at SOAS in May 2016.
Programme: How can we safeguard the intangible heritage of the Nubian Nile valley?
Entrance: Nubian slideshow by Noor El Refai with music accompaniment of the song 'Dayman Nasrebo o'Nile' originally by Sidky Ahmed Selim. Sung here by Zakaria "Zizo” and recorded in his home on Seheil Island, Egypt.
2pm Opening address, Dr Mandana Seyfeddinipur (Director SOAS World Languages Institute)
2-2.10pm Welcome, Dr Fawzi Salih (Chair, Sudanese Nubian Association, UK)
2.10-2.20pm The need for action, Basma Osman (SNA, UK Youth Office)
2.20-2.45pm Goals of the Project, Professor Herman Bell (IAIS University of Exeter, UNGEGN)
2.45-3pm Safeguarding the Nubian languages, Dr Kirsty Rowan (SOAS)
3-3.30pm Experience of teaching the Nobiin Nubian language Dr Halim Sabbar, MBBS, (specialist on Nubian folklore and language)
3.30-3.45pm Tangible and intangible culture: The waterwheel through more than 1,600 years of Nubian history, Professor Herman Bell
3.45-4pm Presentation by Robert Dvořák on Paradise Lost: Portrait of a vanishing culture - Sudanese Nubia published by DAL, Sudan.
4-4.15pm Marrying the Landed with the Mobile: Monumental Heritage (problems) in Sudan, Rebecca Bradshaw (SOAS)
4.15-5pm Discussant session: Overcoming Obstacles to the Revitalization of the Nubian Language and Culture.
5pm Drinks reception in the foyer of the Khalili theatre - all welcome
Special thanks to Nubian colleagues in Egypt, especially to the musician Fikry Kashif of the Eskaleh Nubian Ecolodge in Abu Simbel (Nubian: Absámbal), to the linguist and teacher Houssein Kobbara of the Centre for Nubian Studies and Documentation (also in Absámbal) and to the authority on poetry and music Dr. Mostafa Abdel-Kadir of Adindáan (Nubian: Andan), now in Cairo.
Many thanks to Angelica Baschiera (Centre of African Studies) and Dr Mandana Seyfeddinipur (SOAS World Languages Institute) for their support and assistance.
Many thanks to our exhibitors for their displays of Nubia in the foyer of the Khalili: Manal Mubarak Abdulatif 'Paintings of traditional Nubian life'; Dahlia Mahmoud 'Tribal tribulations' and Noor El Refai 'The Nubians'
Programme: How can we safeguard the intangible heritage of the Nubian Nile valley?
Entrance: Nubian slideshow by Noor El Refai with music accompaniment of the song 'Dayman Nasrebo o'Nile' originally by Sidky Ahmed Selim. Sung here by Zakaria "Zizo” and recorded in his home on Seheil Island, Egypt.
2pm Opening address, Dr Mandana Seyfeddinipur (Director SOAS World Languages Institute)
2-2.10pm Welcome, Dr Fawzi Salih (Chair, Sudanese Nubian Association, UK)
2.10-2.20pm The need for action, Basma Osman (SNA, UK Youth Office)
2.20-2.45pm Goals of the Project, Professor Herman Bell (IAIS University of Exeter, UNGEGN)
2.45-3pm Safeguarding the Nubian languages, Dr Kirsty Rowan (SOAS)
3-3.30pm Experience of teaching the Nobiin Nubian language Dr Halim Sabbar, MBBS, (specialist on Nubian folklore and language)
3.30-3.45pm Tangible and intangible culture: The waterwheel through more than 1,600 years of Nubian history, Professor Herman Bell
3.45-4pm Presentation by Robert Dvořák on Paradise Lost: Portrait of a vanishing culture - Sudanese Nubia published by DAL, Sudan.
4-4.15pm Marrying the Landed with the Mobile: Monumental Heritage (problems) in Sudan, Rebecca Bradshaw (SOAS)
4.15-5pm Discussant session: Overcoming Obstacles to the Revitalization of the Nubian Language and Culture.
5pm Drinks reception in the foyer of the Khalili theatre - all welcome
Special thanks to Nubian colleagues in Egypt, especially to the musician Fikry Kashif of the Eskaleh Nubian Ecolodge in Abu Simbel (Nubian: Absámbal), to the linguist and teacher Houssein Kobbara of the Centre for Nubian Studies and Documentation (also in Absámbal) and to the authority on poetry and music Dr. Mostafa Abdel-Kadir of Adindáan (Nubian: Andan), now in Cairo.
Many thanks to Angelica Baschiera (Centre of African Studies) and Dr Mandana Seyfeddinipur (SOAS World Languages Institute) for their support and assistance.
Many thanks to our exhibitors for their displays of Nubia in the foyer of the Khalili: Manal Mubarak Abdulatif 'Paintings of traditional Nubian life'; Dahlia Mahmoud 'Tribal tribulations' and Noor El Refai 'The Nubians'
Sudanese Nubian Youth Association training day in endangered language documentation, April 2016.
Members of the Sudanese Nubian Association (UK) and the Youth Association spent the day training in endangered language documentation using video technology at SOAS. These videos are archived at SOAS' Endangered Languages Archive and with the community to be used for applied language learning materials for the Nubian languages.
Members of the Sudanese Nubian Association (UK) and the Youth Association spent the day training in endangered language documentation using video technology at SOAS. These videos are archived at SOAS' Endangered Languages Archive and with the community to be used for applied language learning materials for the Nubian languages.
A Tale of Two Rivers exhibition at the University of Exeter
Talk given by Prof Bell at the Faculty of Asian and African Studies at St Petersburg State University, 20-23 June 2017, XXIX International Congress on Historiography and Source Studies of Asia and Africa: Their Heritage and Modernity.
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"The Intangible Heritage of the Nubian Nile, with a tribute to the late Dr Abdelhalim Sabbar" Prof Herman Bell
Volume 2, page 240-241
Volume 2, page 240-241
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