The shared cultural heritage of the border communities of Wadi Halfa in Sudan and Abu Simbel in Egypt

Document Type : Brief summaries of Dissertations.

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Institute of African Studies, Aswan

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The current study sought to achieve an important main goal represented in identifying the tangible and intangible cultural heritage, the common cultural heritage, and the changes that occurred in the elements of the cultural heritage of the two study communities, through knowledge of the cultural characteristics of the population of the two communities of the study, Wadi Halfa in Sudan and Abu Simbel in Egypt.

The field study was conducted in the village of Abu Simbel, the displacement and the people of Wadi Halfa, located in Aswan

Based on the foregoing, the study reached a set of results, including:

1- The tangible and intangible cultural heritage shared by the two participants of the study is considered similar in its belief, traditions, values, language, ideas, practices and way of life that expresses their culture and national identity.

2-The process of displacement affected the circulation of the Nubian language among the Nubians. The majority of young people from the current generation understand the Nubian language, but it is difficult for him to respond to it, and if he speaks in it, he says simple vocabulary, and uses Arabic, and this is due to the contact with tribes and merchants who deal with the Arabic language daily.

Key words (heritage - cultural heritage - border communities – Nuba- Sudan

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