{"pk":63592,"title":"<!--StartFragment-->Houses of Egyptian Nubia: West Aswan — Then and Now<!--EndFragment-->","subtitle":null,"abstract":"<p><!--StartFragment--></p>\n<pre class=\"a-b-r-La\" style='display: block; font-family: \"Courier New\", Courier, monospace, arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>Most of the Nubians in Sudan and Egypt were relocated when the Egyptian High Dam was constructed in 1964, but not all of them were. Several Nuban villages sitting north of the High Dam were in no danger of inundation, and were not evacuated. The houses which the Nubians built and continue to build in these villages, distinctive and beautiful, continue to be cherished by their owners. Here I present photographs of the houses in the village of West Aswan, where I lived for 3 ½ years, showing traditional as well as more modern styles, to demonstrate that the extraordinary Nubian culture, ancient as it is, has not disappeared despite great change.</pre>\n<p><!--EndFragment--></p>","language":"eng","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Nubia"},{"word":"Egyptian Nubia"},{"word":"Nubian village"},{"word":"West Aswan"},{"word":"houses"},{"word":"architecture"},{"word":"High Dam"},{"word":"tourism"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/23v065j5","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Anne","middle_name":"M.","last_name":"Jennings","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2026-02-26T17:48:20.852614Z","date_accepted":"2026-02-26T17:48:50.757981Z","date_published":"2026-02-26T16:49:00Z","render_galley":{"label":"Houses of Egyptian Nubia: West Aswan — Then and Now","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/dotawo/article/63592/galley/48910/download/"},"galleys":[{"label":"Houses of Egyptian Nubia: West Aswan — Then and Now","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/dotawo/article/63592/galley/48910/download/"}]}