Samantha Ellis

Reflections on water in the Middle East

Sabrina Mahfouz inveighs against the abuse by British imperialists of the Middle East’s waterways

Sabrina Mahfouz. [Getty Images] 
issue 28 May 2022

These Bodies of Water begins dramatically (as befits a book derived from Sabrina Mahfouz’s Royal Court show A History of Water in the Middle East) in a stuffy little room in Whitehall where the author is being interrogated by a man in a beige mac who is vetting her for top security clearance.

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