Assouan


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Noun1.Assouan - an ancient city on the Nile in EgyptAssouan - an ancient city on the Nile in Egypt; two dams across the Nile have been built nearby
Arab Republic of Egypt, Egypt, United Arab Republic - a republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 BC
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Adams Grammar School student Joel Assouan gave Newport a clean sweep of the sprints by winning the junior boys' 100m in 12.4.
La seconde edition du Festival Assouan International des Films de Femmes qui se tiendra en Egypte du 20 au 26 fevrier 2018, sera dediee a l'ancienne Moudjahida, grande figure de la Guerre de liberation nationale, Djamila Bouhired.
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Some of the art pieces to go on sale include a captivating work by the modern Iraqi master, Shakir Hassan Al Said, and a beautiful oil painting by the master of modern Egyptian art, Mahmoud Said, titled Assouan -- Les Rochers.
*Demarrage de fonctionnement experimental de la route entre Assouan et Dongola.
La delegation se rendra au Caire, a Louxor et a Assouan. En fait, les responsables au ministere du Tourisme aspirent au retour de l'afflux des touristes japonais d'autrefois.
In conclusion we can say that Browne adheres to principles of documentation, but with a discernible nod to the established tradition of so-called Orientalist paintings and the expected viewer horizon: the harem's secret must be preserved, and perhaps even a sense of its sensual and sexual titillation, as Browne's 1869 painting Nubian Dancers, Assouan suggests.
Marc Olivier Assouan Wadjas had huge debts and was living in "abject poverty" when he ended his life by jumping from the tenth storey of the University of Teesside's Middlesbrough Tower.
The late Arsene Usher Assouan, one-time foreign minister of Cote d'Ivoire, and later mayor of Grand-Lahou, served admirably on the UN Security Council and was responsible, to a large degree, for the formation of the UN "Blue Berets" as a peacekeeping force.