A History of Water in the Middle East
Wednesday 30th October 2019
Text of the day: “It’s a crisis, really./ Imagine, the British colonizing/ a place without a river!/ But we did get bonus points/ for the tip of a land point/ that pokes into Iran and/ controls sea access from the Persian Gulf/ to the Gulf of Oman/ to the Arabian Sea straight to India.” (Amalah in Sabrina Mahfouz’s A History of Water in the Middle East)