The Suez Canal: From Exploitation to Emancipation and Control

Egypt. Summer had already begun. Along with it, the wedding season. To escape the June heat, wedding ceremonies would start late at night and continue until dawn.

Singer Sameh Wahba, famous in cities along the canal, was invited to a wedding ceremony. The humidity in the air was increasing. The air was filled with the smoke of cigarettes, cannabis, and hookah, the dust from the streets, and the smell of beer being drunk by the elderly men sitting at the tables nearby.