Remapping the Nation, Critiquing the State: Environmental Narratives and Desert Land Reclamation in Egypt

Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 158-191

  Sowers, Jeannie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

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