The Nubian heritage and its impact on contemporary plastic art

Abstract

: The Nubian heritage is ancient, the Nubian civilization, whose roots extend back to more than two thousand years before the birth of Christ, and which is considered the pride of Egypt, but rather of Africa as a whole. Where the ancient Nubia extended from the first waterfall in Aswan to the fifth cataract before the beginning of the bending of the Nile, and people lived on this narrow strip on the Nile, which extends about five hundred kilometers. It withstood and remained throughout the ages, despite the exposure of the Nubians in their different geographical regions to many intrusions and cultural interactions. There is also no more important and urgent element and ingredient in the context of preserving the Nubian culture than the language, according to what Dr. Venus Fouad, a critic and plastic artist, explains, referring to the role and value of the Nubian language, and the need to work on reviving and developing it, expressing her happiness that all the candidates’ programs For the presidency in Egypt, he shed light on the problems of the Nuba and the attention to it, and demanded that we shed light on the importance of the Nubian language, because it has become threatened with extinction.