He said that police crackdowns in Aswan were not part of any “government campaign” to arrest those who publicly broke the fast. From Wordnik.com. [Global Voices in English » Egypt: Prison Awaits Those who don’t Fast in Ramadan] Reference
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 spaces. From Wordnik.com. [Global Voices in English » Blogging About Poverty And Development In The Arab World] Reference
The town of Aswan, once famous as the frontier outpost of. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology] Reference
A shallow, rocky stretch of the Nile River near Aswan, Egypt. From Wordnik.com. [Longest River, Wide Adventure] Reference
Aswan High Dam in 1981 altered the time-honored place of the Nile. From Wordnik.com. [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference
The completion of the Aswan High Dam in 1971 and the resultant Lake. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
There is no railway between Aswan and Halfa, all traffic being conducted on the river. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology] Reference
In a village downstream from Aswan we are told we will see traditional Nubian culture. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 6, 2007] Reference
A similar effect was seen on the Nile River after the Aswan Dam in Egypt was completed. From Wordnik.com. [Three Gorges Dam, China] Reference
The average annual flow of the Main Nile at the Sudan-Egypt border at Aswan is estimated at 84 km3. From Wordnik.com. [Water profile of Sudan] Reference
Egypt's Aswan ferry feels like a homecoming to civilization, for instance but he gives them little space. From Wordnik.com. [Longest River, Wide Adventure] Reference
Aswan says that by now she treats her AK-47 better than she does her boyfriend, who lives in a nearby village. From Wordnik.com. [The Fruits Of War] Reference
The Nubia Museum at Aswan, which opened in the fall of 1997, is a fitting tribute to this African civilization. From Wordnik.com. [At the Museums: A Walk Through Time] Reference
It is equivalent to twice the Aswan dam that is being built in Egypt on one of the largest rivers of the world. From Wordnik.com. [INITIATES NEW MILITARY WORK UNIT] Reference
The completion of the first Aswan Dam (between 1912 and 1934) dampened the annual flood pulse in the Nile Delta. From Wordnik.com. [Nile Delta flooded savanna] Reference
But the legend tells us only that the obelisk, of Aswan granite, was found in five pieces in the Circus Maximus. From Wordnik.com. [Sharon Waxman: Unravelling History] Reference
Participants have included the Bedouins of Sinai, the Nubians of Aswan, and even the Coptic monks of Upper Egypt. From Wordnik.com. [Egypt Needs Democracy and Term Limits] Reference
Now we leave the Old Kingdom and venture forward to the Middle Kingdom and King Sesostris III's forts near Aswan. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Thousand Men, One Million Stone Blocks, and a Couple of Sleds] Reference
The agreement was based on the average flow of the Nile during the 1900-1959 period, which was 84 km3/yr at Aswan. From Wordnik.com. [Water profile of Egypt] Reference
I even got an unsolicited bear hug from a man in the Aswan souk when I acknowledged we had supported his campaign. From Wordnik.com. [Melissa Biggs Bradley: The Fear Factor in Travel] Reference
He served as director of the Environmental Protection Programme for the High Dam Lake at Aswan, Egypt from 1980 to 1996. From Wordnik.com. [Contributor: M. N. Rashed] Reference
The case is such that all it has yet to demand is that a pipeline be installed from the Aswan Dam to irrigate the Sinai. From Wordnik.com. [LASO CLOSING SESSION] Reference
Here, it is recounted to children in an Egyptian village near Aswan by the village rawi (ph), or traditional storyteller. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 25, 2007] Reference
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak mourned Mitterrand, who spent the Christmas holiday in the Egyptian city of Aswan, as a man. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Only Egypt's Aswan dam, which has created a lake covering some 2,700 square kilometers, is bigger in terms of surface water. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
CAIRO: Rail links between Cairo and Aswan got back to normal after Egypt's worst train collision left 68 dead and 60 injured. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Innumerable archaeological sites and monuments were flooded by the creation of Lake Nasser behind the Aswan High Dam in 1971. From Wordnik.com. [Cruising Lake Nasser] Reference
CAIRO - Egypt has started building a museum, including an open air village, in the Nile resort of Aswan dedicated to southern. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
In the 1950s, both the Soviet Union and the Western powers offered aid to Egypt to build the Aswan High Dam on the Nile River. From Wordnik.com. [William Fisher: Selling Democracy - De Lux Model with Double-Standards Built In] Reference
Giant Egyptian obelisks weigh hundreds of tons and are composed of solid pieces of granite quarried at Aswan in southern Egypt. From Wordnik.com. [Touring the New York City Obelisks] Reference
In the 1960's, the Egyptian Government built a large dam across the Nile river near the city of Aswan, which resulted in the lake. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Thousand Men, One Million Stone Blocks, and a Couple of Sleds] Reference
Approximately 84 percent of the water reaching Aswan comes from the Ethiopian Highlands and 16 percent from Equatorial East Africa. From Wordnik.com. [Nile Delta flooded savanna] Reference
In 1959, the Nile Waters Agreement between Egypt and Sudan assigned to Sudan 18.5 km3/yr, measured at Aswan at the border with Egypt. From Wordnik.com. [Water profile of Sudan] Reference
The largest such project on the Nile since the Aswan high dam was built in southern Egypt in the 1960s, it is being developed by China's. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
If you do, it will have to stay in the Aswan quarry hundreds of miles away for all of eternity and pharaoh will be quite annoyed with you. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Thousand Men, One Million Stone Blocks, and a Couple of Sleds] Reference
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