The regretted Tareq Salah Eldin from the village of Eniba is a magnificent Nubian poet, and is celebrated by many Nubians as father of the contemporary Nubian poesy, art, and defense of Nubian aspirations to the constitutionally granted return to Nubian lands and the prevention of further decimation, after a large part of Nubia was submerged by the artificial Lake Nasser.
After he and his family were displaced from their drowned village of origin - which coincided with the death of his mother, brother and younger sister, the young Tareq collected as many cassettes of Nubian songs as he could, and wrote the lyrics. He also read poems of the many poets from the old Nubian villages, but few were sung, and most were lost. Analysing the rhymes, Tareq Salah Eldin started complementing them, and progressively wrote his own poems, although in a new non-conventional manner and using old Nubian words - which risked extinction after the displacement.
In need to find work, Tareq Salah Eldin emigrated to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. He sent some tapes with his poems and melodies to his relatives, and the Nubian Artist Eissa Tamim sang his first poem - "Ghurba" (alienation). After he finally came back to Egypt, he started a very creative and productive collaboration mainly with the wonderful artists Ghazi Said, Khidhir El-Attar, and Ahmed Ismail who sing many of his poems, and Seid Ibrahim Qurty, his friend and admirer who sings and composed many of the melodies enhancing his poems' excellence. Tareq Salah Eldin himself also sang his poems during artistic gatherings, playing Oud (luthe), and composed some of the melodies for his poems.
Tareq Salah Eldin became renowned for his outstanding poems incorporating deep feelings, colorful descriptions and affecting messages - all incorporated into artful rhymes. To the sadness of the Nubian community he passed away in 2016 at the young age of 56, however his incredible work of art will remain unforgettable and a torch leading contemporary and future Nubian Artists, and will reverberate in the hearts, souls and the songs of the greatest Nubian singers forever.