Items related to Aswan High Dam

Tourists from a cruise ship travel by boat to the Temple of Kalabsha on Lake Nasser, Egypt.
Al-Masry Al-Youm 11 Apr 2013
Ninety percent of the diesel that spilled into Lake Nasser on Sunday has already evaporated due to high temperatures in...
Egypt Independent 28 Jan 2013
Security was beefed up at the Aswan High Dam on Monday to protect construction work, as protests continue in Cairo and...
Colourful Nubian houses in Gharb Sohail village
Heba Afify 24 Jul 2012
ASWAN - Sixty years ago, a military coup brought Gamal Abdel Nasser into power. Shortly after, the Colonel ordered the...
عشرات من نشطاء وأهالي النوبة ينظمون وقفة احتجاجية أمام مقر مجلس رئاسة الوزراء، وسط القاهرة، 24 مارس 2011، لعرض المطالب النوبية مجددا، مؤكدين علي أنها ليست مطالب فئوية، وداعين الشعب للوقوف بجانبهم.
Al-Masry Al-Youm 16 Jul 2012
Nubian groups in several cities plan to protest outside the Agriculture Ministry on Wednesday to call for the...
Al-Masry Al-Youm 15 Mar 2012
Egyptian rescue teams in Aswan Governorate rescued on Thursday 344 Egyptian and Sudanese passengers who were on board...
حوالي 300 مواطن من أهالي النوبة يتظاهرون أمام مقر رئاسة مجلس الوزراء، القاهرة، 7 أبريل 2011، احتجاجا علي تهميشهم وإهدار حقوقهم -علي حد قولهم- ولمطالبة عصام شرف، رئيس الوزراء، بفصل دائرة نصر النوبة الانتخابية وتجميل مشروع وادى كركر.
Mahmoud al-Gaafari 06 Sep 2011
Nubian demonstrators are protesting for the third day in front of the Aswan Governorate building. The protest started...
The High Dam in Aswan,Which was constructed in the era of president Gamal Abdel-Nasser with assistance of Soviet experts and its cost was about one billion US dollars ,Completion of construction was in 1971
MENA 13 Dec 2010
The German government signed an agreement extending €4.345 million in additional loans to Egypt for work on a...
Currently a couple hundred farmers occupy land near Lake Nasser, but the number could increase to a million inhabitants in the next decade.
Andrew Bossone 19 Jan 2010
Herodotus famously wrote 2500 years ago that "Egypt is the gift of the Nile." But 50 years after the...