It was the dream of Egypt's pan-Arab nationalist president Gamal Abdel Nasser, but the inauguration of the Aswan High Dam 50 years ago came at a big cost. Opened on the mighty Nile on January 15 ...

The Aswan High Dam is 111 metres high and holds back the Lake Nasser reservoir, one of the largest man-made lakes in the world by volume In the mid-1950s, the Egyptian authorities decided to build a ...

But the 111-metre-high and 3.6-kilometre-wide Aswan High Dam, dwarfing the far smaller Aswan Low Dam built under British rule in 1902, crucially gave Cairo power to regulate the flow.

Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation, Mohamed Abdel-Aty, led a meeting of the Permanent Regulatory Committee of the Nile Flow and the ministrys executive bodies on Tuesday to discuss ...

Dina Ezzat, Thursday 14 Jan 2021. On the 50th anniversary of the official opening of the Aswan High Dam, Al-Ahram Weekly revisits its building through oral history, memories, and technical reports ...

FILE - this May 7 , 2018 file photo, shows the high dam in Aswan, Egypt. Egyptians are marking 50 years since the inauguration of the Nile dam, a massive feat of construction that has shaped the ...

Ilham Shary had a sense of awe as he stood atop a towering memorial overlooking the Aswan High Dam. Before him meandered the Nile, the world's longest river, harnessed into a canal. Behind was ...

JULY 21, 1970: The colossal Aswan Dam and the 340-mile-long manmade Lake Nasser were finally completed in Egypt after a decade of building on this day in 1970. The 12,500ft-long dam, which cost ...

Half a century since Egypt's ground-breaking Aswan dam was inaugurated with much fanfare, harnessing the Nile for hydropower and irrigation, the giant barrier is still criticised for its human and ...

It is also a stark reminder — amid high tensions today as Addis Ababa fills its colossal Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) upstream — of just how volatile politics over the life-giving, but ...