Dr. Yasser Mahgoub – Doctoral Dissertaion –University of Michigan - 1990 - 26 social contacts, and common economic involvements threatens the persistence of all distinctive traditions ... 16 Believing that architecture reflects social and cultural meanings as well as people's view of life, I am interested in understanding how architecture reflects the social reality of people and how this social reality changes when the architecture changes. I am not researching Nubia but researching in Nubia the meaning of architecture in the midst of that cultural unrest.
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Fernea, Robert A., ed., Nubians in Egypt: Peaceful People, University of Texas Press, Austin and London, 1973, p.5.