The Nile Delta

Katherine Blouin is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Toronto and a co-founder of Everyday Orientalism. Her publications include Le conflit judéo-alexandrin de 38-41 (2005), Triangular Landscapes: Environment, Society and the State in the Nile Delta under Roman Rule (2014), and the Routledge Handbook of Classics, Colonialism, and Postcolonial Theory (forthcoming, with Ben Akrigg).

1. Introduction: the Nile Delta, real and imagined Katherine Blouin; 2. Call me by my names: naming the Delta through time and space Katherine Blouin; 3. The Nile Delta before the Pharaohs Frédéric Guyot; 4. The khetem-border-posts in the Delta during the New Kingdom Claire Somaglino; 5. New land amongst new rivers? Reconstructing the ancient waterscape and settlement history in the Central Northwestern Delta Robert Schiestl; 6. The Mareotis area: integration of a marginal territory into Egypt through wine production Marie-Françoise Boussac and Bérangère Redon; 7. From Memphis to Alexandria: the Delta within the Persian and Macedonian Empires (end of the sixth to the first century BCE) Damien Agut-Labordère; 8. Growing with the empire? From village to town: Kom Abou Bellou and its urban development Sylvain Dhennin; 9. Mapping the cult of Christian saints in the Nile Delta from the fifth to the ninth century CE Ramez Boutros; 10. Alexandria: a brief overview of the major hydraulics of the city, from its foundation to the Arab Conquest Isabelle Hairy; 11. Imperial power, tribal settlement and fiscal revolts in the early Islamic Delta (seventh to ninth century CE) Sobhi Bourderbala; 12. The Nile as nexus: the nilometer at al-Rawda Island between veneration and mediation in medieval Islamic Egypt Heba Mostafa; 13. Water and prices: a view of the Nile from the Cairo Genizah Ben Outhwaite; 14. Water development in the medieval Western Delta Wakako Kumamura; 15. The Nile Delta in European cartography, 1200-1800 Lucile Haguet; 16. Just passing through? The Nile Delta, colonial modernity and the Egyptian tourist economy (ca. 1870-1914) Rachel Mairs; 17. Reclaiming the archive: the contribution of Egyptian women to the archaeologies of the Delta (1880-1924) Heba Abd el Gawad; 18. Short commentary on accounting documents from a vanishing cotton estate ('izba) in the Nile Delta Mona Abaza.