In the early hours of 8 March 1930, a spring storm dumped torrential rain on the Suez Canal cities of Isma‘iliyya and Port Sa‘īd.[1] The rain fell quickly and the subsequent flooding caused widespread damage across Isma‘iliyya due to the city’s inadequate stormwater drainage system. A network of..
Mohamed Gamal-Eldin
Mohamed Gamal-Eldin is a historian of Modern Egypt, who is interested in questions related to the built environment, urban history, architecture, social history, and environmental ecology of urban centers in nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Egypt, the Middle East, and globally. His dissertation is an interdisciplinary project on the Suez Canal cities from 1856-1936. It is an environmental, architectural, and infrastructural history that looks at the evolution of the canal towns and provides a lens into the social history of those who resided in the towns.