Monday, 4 July 2016

CREATING A STORY: NÚRIA POPPINS

WHO? Núria Poppins

WHERE? Nubia, Egypt

WHEN? In the past

WHAT? Discovering Nubian culture

I was travelling around Egypt discovering ancient cultures. We arrived to Nubia in the south of the country. Nubian people are different from Egyptians and Sudanese. They’re another culture with another language and other traditions. They’re another ethnic. I travelled by camel along the Nile and I arrived to a Nubian village where I met Sara, a beautiful local girl with enormous green eyes. I was fascinated. She demanded me help for her poor family. I gave it. I promised that I would return next year. I did it. She was there, waiting for me. 

  
Contemporary Nubian is a spoken language only. When its speakers want to write it they have to resort either to the Arabic or to the Latin alphabet.

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