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The High Dam
Hydroelectric power plant · Aswan ·
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This Displaced Egyptian Community Is One of the Oldest on Earth
"Built in the 1960s, the dam’s construction submerged ancestral Nubian lands and displaced large portions of the community, severing physical ties to their homeland and triggering a widespread diaspora. That loss reshaped Nubian life but did not erase it: descendants and displaced communities have preserved and transmitted their identity through wedding customs, traditional music, food, dances, storytelling and, more recently, social media, keeping memories of the homeland alive despite the displacement." - Travel + Leisure Editors
