The issue of Nubian rights is an often neglected and poorly
understood issue for public opinion. This is not a big surprise since Egyptians
did not get any education on that part of their country and it hardly ever surfaces
as part of the political discussion. Despite the active participation of
Nubians in and before the revolution; their efforts to highlight their cause
and their history of discrimination, little attention is given to them. Nubians
have more recently become a part of the political discussion, more evident in
the presidential race. However, as usual Nubians were excluded from
participating in shaping their country’s future as none of them was selected to
be in the constitution drafting committee.
