Peopling Nubia

This chapter looks into the Nubian campaign becoming symbolic of the global mobility and cosmopolitan representation of people. It cites the paperwork resonances connecting Nubian migration and the Nubian campaign. Through the promotion of universalism during the Nubian campaign, UNESCO attempted to make cosmopolitan, internationalist values rhetorically central to the organization's foundation. Moreover, the opening of the Suez Canal became a symbol of increasingly rapid mobility that drove processes of globalization. In Nubia, mobility became a marker of how technological innovation could be used to promote both local modernization initiatives and UNESCO-backed cosmopolitanism. The chapter notes the High Dam construction accelerated the formation of a collective identity for the different groups comprising the Nubian population.