People and Water in Egypt: A Political Ecology Perspective

This book is the outcome of a project that started in late 2018 when the dominant narrative in Egyptian media and intellectual circles was that Egypt was experiencing an unprecedented water crisis. At that moment, negotiations over the fate of Egypt's access to the Nile waters due to the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) were beginning to reach a deadlock. Talks were officially suspended in April of 2021. At the time of writing this introduction in October 2020, the...