Aswan SC Aswan SC Aswan is a football club based in Aswan, Egypt. 39 Aswan's first president, Athee Bek Al-Nazer, Abbas Bey Farid, Ahmed Beck Abdelkader, Mahmoud Bek Hussein, Ahmed Bakr Sorour Sharif, Salem Bey Habashi, Ahmed Bek El-Hefnaoui, Ismail Bey El-Deroui, Abdel-Khaliq Bek Safwat, Abd El Latif Bek Shaker, Mohammed Bek Ahmed, Hussein Bey Raafat, Shu'ayb, Ishmael Bey Fakhri, Ahmad Bey Issa, Abdel Aziz Bak El-Qadi, Mohamed Bek Said, Hussein Bek Amin, Ismael Bey Fahmy, Abdel Hamid Bey Aref, Ibrahim Bek Halim, Mohamed Bek Omar, El-Awaat Abdel Aziz Abdel Hay, Hassan Khaled Hamdy, Abdel Aziz Al-Aghoury, Zakaria Abdel Fattah, Ahmed Najmuddin
Aswan Low Dam on 10 December 1902, by HRH the Duke of Connaught and Strathearn. The project was designed by Sir William Willcocks and involved several eminent engineers of the time, including Sir Benjamin Baker and Sir John Aird, whose firm, John Aird & Co., was the main contractor. Capital and financing were furnished by Ernest Cassel. The Old Aswan Dam was designed as a gravity-buttress dam; the buttress sections accommodate numerous gates, which were opened yearly to pass the flood and its nutrient-rich sediments, but without retaining any yearly storage. The dam was constructed of rubble masonry and faced with red ashlar