Water in Egypt 🌊

Water in Egypt is an interactive Media Mapper developed by Meklit Abebe. The mapper geospatially ties connections between Al-Kawākib (illustrated magazine) archives and Egypt's central waterbodies: the Aswan Dam and the Suez Canal.

Why Egypt? 💧

This project is entirely based on qualitative research conducted at the Library of Congress. The archival artifacts are sourced from the African and Middle Eastern Division’s collection of Al-Kawākib. Arabic text from these images may not be fully visible, but are translated into English. Aimed at expanding the field of "Blue Humanities," this map visually presents the interactions between state-controlled waterbodies, public perception, and media.

learn more about the researcher: https://meklitabebe.org

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About the Media Mapper

What is it?

The Media Mapper is an open source framework intended to be used as a starting point for building a web application geared towards exploring Media throughout time and space.

The project was dreamt up by Ennuri Jo as a way to explore the relationship between media and water. Funding for this project was provided by the University of Pennsylvania, Penn. The framework was developed by Ben Tyler and Lost Creek Designs.

Please see the GitHub repository for more information about how you can get started with the project!