Works DatabaseEgyptian Drama, Cinema, and Theatre

A Tale From Nubia

  • Film
  • 1962
  • Released

Saad Nadim assembles artwork and pictorial sequences to evoke Nubian daily life, customs, and memory at a moment of dramatic upheaval — the planned inundation and relocation of roughly 50,000 Nubians during the Aswan High Dam project. The film functions as an ethnographic tribute and a visual record of a community uprooted by state modernization efforts.

  • Directing Saad Nadim

Saad Nadim assembles artwork and pictorial sequences to evoke Nubian daily life, customs, and memory at a moment of dramatic upheaval — the planned inundation and relocation of roughly 50,000 Nubians during the Aswan High Dam project. The film functions as an ethnographic tribute and a visual record of a community uprooted by state modernization efforts.

  • Directing Saad Nadim
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