Nubian displacement is a known consequence of the construction of the Aswan High Dam (1960-71). Centering this displacement in histories of Afro-Arab solidarity, however, sheds new light on the hydropolitics that shaped the dam’s construction as well as on the contradictions of Bandung-era ..
Bayan Abubakr
Bayan Abubakr is a Ph.D. student of history at Yale University. Her research focuses on racial formations amongst enslaved groups and their descendants, Sudanese Arabs, and colonial elites in Ottoman-Egyptian Sudan (1821-1884).