Traditions and manners of Nuba is part of Egyptian’s culture which is emerged in novelists’ works of Nuba in various ways and most of the times they have been denied and objected; because ignorance and prejudice govern them, is routed in their culture and except in very few cases, they never change. The novel “playing over Nuba Mountains” by Edris Ali is one of the Novels which is clearly analyzed the problem of fidelity to the manners and traditions and of course disaffiliation of the people with external world. It is also illustrated cultural difference of north and south of the Egypt.Hence, present study has studied manners and traditions of the novel “playing over the Nuba Mountains” and analyzed its constant and diverse factors according to the theory of social relationship and alteration. The most important consequence of the study is that novel’s champion, “Ghade”, could break their deep and constant traditions and this success is indebted to Ghade’s unique properties which diversified her from other non Nubi people who were on Malti, the place of the novel’s incidences. The most crucial alterations because of her presence, can be summarized as two main cases: the first one is encouraging the girls of the village to change their appearance and hair style and second one is instructing them how to write and read. Therefore, their theory of life changed.  

Keywords: Egyptian Novel, Edris Ali, Nubi traditions and manners, alteration

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