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Nubia Train (The)

  • Nubia Train (The) - Ktar el Noba
Type : Documentary
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Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2002
Format : Mid-length
Running time : 35 (in minutes)

This is a revealing documentary about the Nubians living in Alexandria who travel to their villages every year during greater Bairam to visit their relatives and spend some time near to their roots. The journey takes 18 hours by train from the farthest north to the farthest south of Egypt.




Egypt, 2002, 35mins, doc, Arabic with English subtitles, Atteyat Al-Abnoudy, dir.


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