Nubia Bulletin - July 2014

Monthly newsletter issued by Nubia Project

Nubia Bulletin

July - 2014

Stop Destroying Nubia, the Land of Civilization

In this issue:

1. UNESCO and the Mysterious Qatar Sudan Deal on Nubian Antiquities

2. Appology to readers

3. Arsons continue in Nubia.

4. Nubian Date Palms are thretened by a lesion.

5. Nubians in Egypt feel unsafe

6. U.S. Africa Leaders Summit

7. Nubia, Qatar and UNESCO

8. Sudan is not invited to U.S. Africa Summit Conference

U.S. AFRICA LEADERS SUMMIT

Nubia in Africa

Nubia the oldest African civilization is under attack and African leaders are gathering here while their identity is at stake. Nobody commented when the High Dam of Egypt submerged an important part of Nubia in early sixties of last century and now when the government of Sudan is building series of dams which will submerge the remaining land of Nubia with its huge archaeological treasures.

We call upon the conferees and the international community to help stop this cultural genocide. Sudan has given the right of preserving the antiquities of Nubia to the State of Qatar which is known with its pro Islamist tendancies while the government of Sudan has given the portfolio of Antiquities and Tourism to a Sunni Salafi minister. Nubians do not feel that their historical and archaelogical treasures are in safe hands.

Honorable leaders of US and Africa, We invite your kind attention to the plight of Nubia and seize the opportunity of this august gathering to appeal to ypor Excellencies to take a historic action to protect your identity by issuing a statement showing your unequivocal stance to protect and preserve this African and international heritage from total and irreversible destruction and make Nubian language, the oldest spoken and written language as an official language in Africa.

We appeal to the Congressional Black Caucus to adopt this appeal and take the necessary action to make it workable.

Gold and the Gods
Jewels of Ancient Nubia

July 19, 2014 – May 14, 2017
Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation Gallery (Gallery 104) http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/gold-and-gods?utm_source=dm_monthly

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Nubians and UNESCO

Nubians have contacted UNESCO several times to help protect the Nubian antiquities from Damming, smuggling and looting but unfortunately the same organization which led the largest antiquity salvation in history shied away when Sudan government built Merowe Dam in 2003 and showed no action against the dam projects in the Nubian land which will submerge the whole Nubian land forever.
Now Nubia is plundered by the gold searchers who ravaged many archaelogical sites, looted and smuggled many artifacts.

Smuggled

Disappeared

Editor: Nuraddin Mannan
Nubia Bulletin

UNESCO and the Mysterious Deal Between Qatar and Sudan on Nubian Antiquities

Why Nubians are absent in UNESCO?

This supplement is exclusively for the issue of the Qatari - Sudanese new deal under the Qatar Sudan Antiquity Project to Develop Nubian Antiquities - QSAP. Qatar has hosted the 38th session of the World Heritage Committee meeting in Doha during the period from 15 to 25 June 2014. This all of a sudden interest in Nubian antiquities and the deal between Sudan and Qatar raise many doubts. We want to know the details of this agreement and whether Qatar is taking any of the Nubian artifacts to its museums in Doha.

The details about this deal is clouded by secrecy and the deal comes after the Qatari attempts to boost its international image and attract tourism to the tiny Gulf state during the World Cup Tournament which is supposed to take venue in 2020 in Doha. The FIFA officials are investigating and conducting possibility of briberies by Qatar to win the ticket of hosting the 2020 FIFA World Cup Tournament in Doha.

Is there any attempt from Qatar to lure UNESCO to support the Qatari Sudanese deal and enable Qatar to control the future of the Sudanese Nubian antiquities??

Why Nubians Are Absent in UNESCO?

Nubians are not present in any UNESCO programs and activities! Nubians want a Nubian presence inside UNESCO to follow up projects related to Nubian antiquities and archaeological treasures which are handled by non-Nubians since its inception. Nubians need an answer from UNESCO authorities.

Sheikha Al-Maysa Al-Thani Irina Bokova, UNESCO Director General

Following the Qatari Sudanese deal of US $ 135 million agreement and forming the Qatar-Sudan Antiquities Project (QSAP) to develop the Nubian antiquities, Qatar is trying to influence the international organization, UNESCO to cover up its plans to move the Nubian antiquities to Doha. We quote the UNESCO web site: " At the occasion of the 38th session of the World Heritage Committee, held from 15 to 25 June 2014 in Doha (Qatar), a special issue of World Heritage is dedicated to Al Zubarah Archaeological Site, inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2013, which flourished as a pearling and trading centre in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and offers outstanding testimony to an urban trading and pearl-diving tradition. The Old Palace in Doha, the rock carvings of Qatar and Khor Al-Adaid Nature Reserve are also among the articles featuring Qatari heritage.

A message from UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova and an interview with H.E. Sheika Al Mayassa Bint Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Chair of Qatar Museums Authority and Chair of the World Heritage Committee, are also featured.

We call upon and encourage the Sudanese and Nubian scholars to follow up this matter and feed us back with the details of the Sudanese Qatari agreement to develop the Nubian antiquities and the Sudanese representative in QSAP), Dr. Salah Mohamed Ahmed should respond to questions raised by the Nubians about the Sudanese Qatari deal. It is our hope that Qatar is not using its financial influence to control the Nubian antiquities as it used with the FIFA to win hosting the 2020 FIFA World Cup - Mondial tournament in Doha.

We ask UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova if she has more details about the Qatari Sudanese agreement and whether Qatar has the necessary skills to excavate and develop the Nubian antiquities! Over and above; if UNESCO can monitor the Qatari Sudanese deal and the nature of the activities of QASP (Qatar-Sudan Antiquities Project) located in Doha instead of Khartoum!

Recent reports show a sharp rise in the smuggling of Nubian antiquities and the failure of the government in protecting these invaluable treasures. The antiquities and tourism services are under the control of a Salafi Minister who sees these antiquities as incompatible to his Islamic beliefs!

This is one the Sudanese Qatari agreement (QASP) outcomefrom the Qatari pledge to invest US $135 million dollars to develop Nubian antiquities.

Arsons continue in Nubia and thousands of Date Palms are burnt to ashes

This is a conspiracy to force Nubians to leave their ancestral lands for foreigners and to complete the grand strategy of Arabizing the Nubian land, the last non-Arab pocket between the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Islamist Arabized regime of Sudan. These arsons never happened in the Nubian land for thousands of years and they became common in the recent years after the arrival of the Islamists to power in Sudan through a military coup in 1989.

Nubia has been under continuous isolation, impoverishment, and marginalization and even excluded from the national budget for years to create a "no man's land" prior to dealing the final blow to Nubia and recolonize it. The last African citadel is about to collapse ushering the beginning of a new era of the Islamic Khilafa State along the Nile Valley. A part of the grand strategy of the radical Islamists has failed when the Egyptian people defeated the fanatic Muslim Brotherhood organization in a democratic contest.

Unfortunately the newly elected system in Egypt is a pro radical national Arab system which is also hostile to the Nubian culture like the Muslim Brotherhood ideology

Nubia Date Palms are threatened by a lesion

Dear readers of Nubia Bulletin

We got some disturbing news about a Lesion affecting the Nubian date palm such as termites or cortical beside the mysterious arson which flare up from time to time in Nubia burning thousands of fruitful trees. Nubian activists believe that these incidents are intentional to force the Nubians to abandon their ancestral lands for foreigners. Your urgent help is needed.

Nubians call upon UN specialized agencies,

World Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

and all relevant regional organizations to extend a helping hand to the Nubian Date Palm trees which are known to live over 100 productive years. If the oases in the Sahara desert are planted by millions of these fruit trees they can help in stopping the desert encroachment into Africa and help in expanding the plantation cover northward which will solve the pasture and water problems between the nomadic tribes and the sedentarilized tribes of Darfur and other Sahel countries.

Nubians in Egypt feel unsafe

Nubians in Aswan, the major Nubian city, south of Egypt still feel unsafe from the possible attacks and they say that the security matters are handled by officials related to Beni Hilal tribe who were a part of the confrontation with the Nubians in Dabod area, predominantly a Nubian area. According to some Nubian activists, there are still tensions and frictions between Nubians and Beni Hilal and there are news about the Egyptian government's intention to dismantle Aswan region in to three governorate to weaken the Nubian unity. We hope that the new Egyptian government led by President Abdel Fattah Alsisi tackles this issue wisely and recognize the Nubian entity as a main component of the Egyptian and Nile Valley history and recognize as well the Nubian language, the oldest written language in Africa as an official language. The same demand applies on Sudan government which does not recognize Nubian language and culture which is considered by radical Arabs and Islamists as remnants of paganism and should be wiped out from the Nile valley.

UNESCO and other relevant international organizations kept silent and gave no attention to this grave threat to an important international heritage and kept a blind eye to the continuous plundering and smuggling Nubian artifacts. The Nubians and their historical treasures are threatened and nobody cares.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/04/06/Tribal-fighting-in-Egypt-s-Aswan-resumes.html

http://news.yahoo.com/family-feud-resumes-southern-egypt-killing-2-134835584.html

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/07/egypt-arab-nubian-clashes-dozens-dead

Cancelation of an Event to Comemorate Sudanese Writer el-Tayyeb Salih in Library of Congress

Sudanese activists and US organizations have succeeded in alerting US Conress members to cancel an event organized by Sudan embassy and some Sudanese companies, some of them included in the US sanctions list. The event which was finances by those companies was supposed to coincide with the U.S. African Summit Conference on August 4, 2014. The move to cancel the vent was initiated by Nubia Project and the action to cancel the event was taken by Honorable Congressman Frank Wolf. Many organizations supported and contributed to this timely action.

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