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About Mohamed Gamal-Eldin
Mohamed Gamal-Eldin is a historian of Modern Egypt, who is interested in questions related to the built environment, urban history, architecture, social history and environmental ecology of urban centers in 19th and early 20th century Egypt, the Middle East and globally.
NBN Episodes hosted by Mohamed:
March 5, 2023
Flooded Pasts
Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology (Cornell UP, 2022) examines a world famous yet critically underexamined event—UNES…
November 18, 2022
Sweet Fuel
As the hazards of carbon emissions increase and governments around the world seek to reduce reliance on fossil fuels, the search for clean and afforda…
May 23, 2022
Lives of Weeds
Lives of Weeds: Opportunism, Resistance, Folly (Comstock Publishing, 2021) explores the tangled history of weeds and their relationship to humans. Thr…
April 22, 2022
Rivers of the Sultan
Rivers of the Sultan offers a history of the Ottoman Empire's management of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the early modern period. During the ear…
December 15, 2021
Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries
By exploring the uniquely dense urban network of the Low Countries, Janna Coomans debunks the myth of medieval cities as apathetic towards filth and d…
November 22, 2021
Asphalt
In Asphalt: A History (U Nebraska Press, 2021), Kenneth O’Reilly provides a history of this everyday substance. By tracing the history of asphalt—in b…
September 7, 2021
Tea Environments and Plantation Culture
In Tea Environments and Plantation Culture: Imperial Disarray in Eastern India (Cambridge UP, 2021), Arnab Dey examines the intersecting role of law, …