Faras was elected to the tribal council in late 1998.
Faras' father hauled the wood from the flooding ghost town and built the family's little white house, the shell of which now hunches in bramble and the angles of which collapse at the edge of Faras' property.
Faras, known in ancient times as Pachoras, was a major city in Lower Nubia in modern Egypt.
During the period of Egyptian control over Nubia, Faras became an Egyptian administrative centre and, located upriver from Abu Simbel, Egyptian cultural influences were prominent.
The city reached its height during the Christian period of Nubia, and Faras became the capital of the state of Nobatia.
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