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Aswan is a small Nile city in southern Egypt where granite boulders break the river into rapids. Building the High Dam in the 1960s flooded Nubian villages and forced UNESCO to move Philae Temple stone by stone, so local stories carry displacement and rescue. Ramses: The Son of Light and Warm Winter Night sit on its shelf beside that river past. Open Aswan on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.

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4 famous stories set in Aswan

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Browse 3 books and 1 movie set in Aswan.

تذكرة وحيدة للقاهرة

تذكرة وحيدة للقاهرة

by أشرف العشماوي
book

ماذا لو تعرض انسان لصراعات تفوق قدراته ،وعاش حيوات تتخطى طموحاته؟ رحلة ملحمية يسافر فيها البطل وحيدًا، تعكس ما حوله من هزات المجتمع المصري منذ مشارف الأربعينات ، من أطراف جنوب الوادي إلى نادي الجزيرة بقلب القاهرة ومن حي…

Setting: Cairo, Egypt; Alexandria, Egypt; Switzerland; Aswan, EgyptTime Period: 1940s
Warm Winter Night

Warm Winter Night

الهيئة المصرية العامة للسينما
movie

Sara and Mohy hold the Koran and then travel with her father the great contractor Mounir Rahmi to Aswan.There she discovers that her father does not want to complete the wedding procedures and seeks to marry her to…

Setting: Aswan, Egypt; Cairo, EgyptTime Period: 1981
Ramses: The Son of Light

Ramses: The Son of Light

by Christian Jacq, Mary Feeney (Translator)
book

Historical fiction meets mythology as ancient Egypt comes alive in this monumental epic with over 2 million copies sold around the world.At fourteen, Ramses, the second son of the Pharaoh Seth, must begin to pass a…

Setting: ['Egypt', 'Memphis (Egypt)', 'Avaris (Egypt)', 'Abydos (Egypt)', 'Aswan (Egypt)', 'Thebes, Egypt (Egypt)', 'Heliopolis (Egypt)', 'Karnak (Egypt)', 'Valley of the Kings (Egypt)', 'Nubia']Time Period: UNKNOWN
محال

محال

by يوسف زيدان (Goodreads Author)
book

«وأما الأخبار التى بأيدينا الآن، فإنما نتَّبع فيها غالب الظن، لا العلم المحقق» – ابن النفيسبطل هذه الرواية شاب مصري سوداني يتسم بالبراءة والتدين، ويعمل كمرشد سياحي في الأقصر وأسوان. كانت أقصى أحلام هذا الشاب هي الزواج…

Setting: Luxor, Egypt; Aswan, Egypt; Sudan; Afghanistan; Guantanamo Bay, CubaTime Period: 2012

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