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n. - An ancient city on the Nile in Egypt.

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  • He said that police crackdowns in Aswan were not part of any “government campaign” to arrest those who publicly broke the fast.
  • In Egypt, Lozah recently visited some youth centres in Aswan that are participating in an initiative encouraging girls and women to utilise traditionally male-dominated...
  • The town of Aswan, once famous as the frontier outpost of
  • A shallow, rocky stretch of the Nile River near Aswan, Egypt.
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