This article has been initiated by David Haberlah 06/2005.
All information on the Manasir supplied by the User David Haberlah are resulting from his field research in Dar al-Manasir in February and March 2005 joining the team of Humboldt University Nubian Expedition (H.U.N.E.). H.U.N.E. is headed by Prof. Claudia Näser and conducting salvage archaeology on the islands of Shiri, Sherari, Sur, Us, Atram, Kidir and the left bank of the Nile between Salamat and Gebel Musa.
The ethnographical research had been financed by the "Programm Kulturerhalt" of the German Department of Foreign Affairs as a contribution to the preservation of the culture of the Manasir. All Manasir living in their homeland Dar al-Manasir are going to be relocated as a result of the flooding of the Hamdab High Dam in the coming years. There is an urgent need of further anthropological research and programs of cultural preservation. The initial author David Haberlah hopes that the nature of Wikipedia will attract both researchers and Manasir to expand the freely available information and knowledge about the Manasir tribe.
I would like to encourage everybody to list academic articles concerning Dar al-Manasir that cannot be published on the Internet here. A copy of new articles should be submitted to the Sudanese National Library to be available to the Sudanese public. In case that you can provide material about the Manasir that does not suit the requirements of Wikipedia, Wikisource or Wikimedia please contact H.U.N.E., who is running the Hompage of the Manasir.
David Haberlah 10:40, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)