The Nubian heritage and its impact on contemporary plastic art

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.