من اكسفورد: حوار مع سادن الحضارة النوبية هيرمان بيل (جدير بالمشاهدة)

Professor Herman Bell
M.Litt. (Oxon.), M.A. & Ph.D. (Northwestern)
Professor, Senior Research Fellow
Herman Bell is a Senior Research Fellow at Exeter. He is collaborating with Nubian scholars on the languages and culture of Egyptian and Sudanese Nubia. His activities include:
Discovering Nubia
Preserving a large collection of photographs taken before the Nubians had to leave their homelands along the Nile in 1964 as a result of the flood waters of the High Dam near Aswan
Using the photographs to stimulate memories of the historic homelands
Recording a corpus of memories in the Nubian language with translation and commentary in English and Arabic
Collaborating with Nubian institutions to disseminate the results of this project
Collaborating with Nubian scholars who are promoting literacy in Nubian and developing a writing system based on the distinctive Nubian alphabet of the mediaeval period
Promoting Nubian creativity in music, art and literature
Providing a record of the spectacular house decorations of Nubia before the flood