Human and social sciences
Alya El Marakby ,
Saker El Nour
People and Water in Egypt: A Political Ecology Perspective
People and Water in Egypt is an edited volume that takes an interdisciplinary approach to critically examine contemporary water issues in Egypt. The chapters offer a range of theoretical, empirical, and anthropological contributions covering water distribution within rural and urban areas, transboundary water politics, and issues around drinking water and irrigation. As the case studies will demonstrate, water infrastructures reveal so much about historical power dynamics across time and space. Water is simultaneously natural, chemical, geopolitical, social, and cultural.
We hope that after finishing this book, the reader will have a better understanding of how water issues in Egypt are anything but straightforward.
Alya El Marakby is an independent researcher, writer, and translator with a background in Anthropology, interested in environmental justice, economics, history, visual culture, and politics.
Saker El Nour is a freelance rural sociologist specializing in agri-food systems and rural transformations in the Middle East and North Africa. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology, focused on political ecology, rural social movements, and agri-environmental politics in Arab countries. He is the co-author of Mrahrah Bread: the Political Economy of Food Sovereignty in Egypt in 2021.
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