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Reflections on water in the Middle East

28 May 2022

9:00 AM

28 May 2022

9:00 AM

These Bodies of Water: Notes on the British Empire, the Middle East and Where We Meet Sabrina Mahfouz

Headline, pp.288, 16.99

These Bodies of Water begins dramatically (as befits a book derived from Sabrina Mahfouz’s Royal Court show A History of Water in the Middle East) in a stuffy little room in Whitehall where the author is being interrogated by a man in a beige mac who is vetting her for top security clearance.

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