Ismailia: The Contemporary Agricultural Landscape

About this book

Researcher and Arabist Tian Hui explores the contemporary agricultural landscape of Ismailia and the communities transforming desert land into productive fields. The book considers reclamation projects around Serapeum, Abu Sultan, and neighboring Sinai, alongside farmers' struggles with water scarcity, salinity, and climate change. Bringing together rural traditions and innovations in protected cultivation, it examines the region's role in Egypt's food, environmental, and economic security. This is an Arabic-language edition.