Back to Qursaya: A Never-Ending Nile Story
Roger Anis, photographer and artist-in-residence at IHE Delft, tells the story of how he found a microcosm of the Nile river in the small and quiet island of Qursaya, in the middle of the...
Roger Anis, photographer and artist-in-residence at IHE Delft, tells the story of how he found a microcosm of the Nile river in the small and quiet island of Qursaya, in the middle of the...
In her Master’s thesis, Whin Thiri Lwin reflected on the moral dilemmas faced by people working in Myanmar’s water sector, caught in between the political will of opposing the military regime, and the professional...
After graduating from IHE Delft MSc in Water Management and Governance, Helen Barbosa turned her thesis into a short film to promote a conversation on uneven water distributions in her country, Cabo Verde, and...
A reflection on how photos can help us to promote conversations and shared understandings on a long, diverse, and contested river like the Nile. #EverydayNile is a project involving photojournalists from Nile basin countries...
Last week, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s prolonged occupation of Palestinian territory is a violation of international law. Michelle Rudolph and Rachel Kurian analyse how the water governance regime imposed by...
In June we organised a workshop in Cairo to kick off the second round of co-production fellowships, pairing journalists and researchers from Nile countries to work together at water science communication projects. This innovative...
In March 2024, Project Poldergeist released its sixth video: “Why was Sigmund Freud interested in the Afsluitdijk”, an animated psychogram of the Netherlands. A psychogram is a visual representation that captures the distinct qualities...
Ethno-graphy integrates traditional ethnographic methods with artistic and visual techniques. Jenia Mukherjee and Shreyashi Bhattacharya tell how they used this methodology with students and practitioners to promote new understandings of and relations with the...
We want to stop our planet from burning, but we can’t even stop ourselves from burning. The only news coming about climate change is that it is worsening, Earth is getting warmer, and we...
Sumit Vij, Timos Karpouzoglou, and Vishal Narain challenge the myth of the formal (state controlled) water as ‘piped’ water versus the informal (non-state) water as ‘non-piped’. Their ethnographic work illustrates how these two water...
The fourth micro-essay of a series inspired by the photos of #EverydayNile, drawing connections among people, places, waters, and stories along the Nile river. Jerrycans are a commonplace in pictures about water in Africa....
The third of a micro-essay series inspired by the photos of #EverydayNile, drawing connections among people, places, waters, and stories along the Nile river. The first experiment of #EverydayNile took place in February 2019...
The second of a micro-essay series inspired by the photos of #EverydayNile, drawing connections among people, places, waters, and stories along the Nile river. Three figures are turning their back to the camera, walking...
This is the first of a micro-essay series inspired by the photos of #EverydayNile to draw connections among people, places, waters, and stories along the Nile river. In his newsletter on African photography “Tender...
Water insecurity, like climate change, impacts the livelihood of many, particularly in drought prone countries like Iraq. However, we should avoid simplistic and mono-causal representations like “climate change refuges”, that hide the complexity of...